Top AEW Star "Suspended" For 30 Days

This AEW major player won't be in in-ring action for the immediate future.

by Andrew Pollard
Ricky Starks
AEW

As detailed on last night's AEW Collision, Ricky Starks has been "suspended" for 30 days.

Starks opened this week's Collision with an in-ring interview segment with Tony Schiavone. There, Absolute detailed how he'd been suspended for 30 days for his assault on Ricky Steamboat last week.

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For those who missed last week's Collision, Starks lost to CM Punk in the main event; a main event which featured the legendary Dragon in a special referee/enforcer role outside the ring. Post-match, the Stroke Daddy took Steamboat down and unleashed a flurry of punches, before then taking off the WWE Hall of Famer's belt and whipping him with it.

While his in-ring career is on hold for 30 days, Starks revealed that he's got himself a manager's license and thus will continue to be a presence on AEW TV. The New Orleans native also stated how his "war" with CM Punk wasn't over.

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Of course, this suspension is merely a kayfabe one as part of Starks' ongoing rivalry with CM Punk and the former Team Taz man's more villainous persona. Where that 30-day suspension is concerned, that would rule Ricky out of competing at both All In and All Out, though he could obviously still have a role to play at those upcoming PPVs - such as Starks possibly managing Samoa Joe in the Samoan Submission Machine's All In bout against CM Punk.

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