Ricky Starks of "Team Taz" in All Elite Wrestling recently spoke with the folks at TSN for an in-depth interview about his pro wrestling career.
During his discussion with the Canadian based sports media outlet, the AEW star opened up about his decision to leave the National Wrestling Alliance, where he was a former NWA Television Champion.
Featured below is an excerpt from the interview where Starks talks about parting ways with the NWA.
"I didn’t plan to stay there for a long time. I gave myself a six-month or eight-month plan to really stay and then use that as a jumping-off point for me to get things going. I wasn’t getting paid a lot in NWA, so I was barely making it by off the salary that I was on. On top of that, once the pandemic hit and they weren’t really trying to increase my pay, they were going with a new TV show called Carnyland that I didn’t necessarily agree with. That was really just the writing on the wall for me to step away from it and try something else. It was a bit scary to try something else, especially because of the fact that we just started in the pandemic, so the timing [wasn’t great.]"
Check out the complete Ricky Starks interview at TSN.com.
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