Ricky Starks Suffers Fractured Neck

[Chris]

AEW's Ricky Starks will be on the sidelines for three months due to a fractured neck.

Voices of Wrestling first reported the news Tuesday with our Bryan Alvarez confirming.

Starks suffered the injury in his match against Hangman Page on the April 21st AEW Dynamite. He took a german suplex from Page and in trying to flip over to land on his feet, he hit awkwardly on both his neck and his ankle. He worked the rest of the match in a losing effort.

He tweeted afterward that he was good and credited DDP Yoga for his flexibility.

He appeared on the following week's Dark in a tag match with Powerhouse Hobbs, but never got into the match as it lasted all of 32 seconds.

The Team Taz member has been a standout since debuting for AEW in June of 2020, challenging then-TNT Champion Cody Rhodes as part of an open challenge. The former NWA TV Champion has yet to taste AEW gold.

source: f4wonline.com

 

[Deezy]

Too bad, he was getting a good push on NXT recently.....poor Zoey Starks

 

[Chris]

Too bad, he was getting a good push on NXT recently.....poor Zoey Starks

Can you post the tweet of it you put in the chat earlier, too much to scroll through to find it again now

 

[Deezy]

No sold a broken freakin neck and still did a run in later that night, and yet dimples stops a match for hurting his ass.

 

[Cwalker]

Gonna come back and win the FTW Title as a baby face

 

[Chris]

No sold a broken freakin neck and still did a run in later that night, and yet dimples stops a match for hurting his ass.

And credits DDP Yoga

 

[Apoho Creed]

Damn I forgot about that spot Starks is one tough son of a bitch to want to continue even through that pain. When he comes back you know he'll be juiced up wanting to kill it.

 

[Hidden Blaze]

Yikes! Holy hell.

 

[Chris]

So what was the deal with the spot actually? It looks like Starks was supposed to land on his feet but didn't rotate enough, could have been bc of how Hangman was holding him idk

This is why I'm not a performer I guess I can see shit went wrong but idk why

 

[Cwalker]

So what was the deal with the spot actually? It looks like Starks was supposed to land on his feet but didn't rotate enough, could have been bc of how Hangman was holding him idk

This is why I'm not a performer I guess I can see shit went wrong but idk why

Rookie

 

[Deezy]

So what was the deal with the spot actually? It looks like Starks was supposed to land on his feet but didn't rotate enough, could have been bc of how Hangman was holding him idk

This is why I'm not a performer I guess I can see shit went wrong but idk why

Page suplexed him before Starks could jump with him so he could get a full rotation and land on his feet. There's a reason why you don't see anyone backflipping out of German suplexes in real combat sports.

 

[Necro]

Damn, that was rough to watch. Got up and was like I'm fine, but nahhh. Damn!