Ricky Starks shocked the professional wrestling world on Tuesday evening when he confirmed up on WWE NXT simply mere hours after he was launched from All Elite Wrestling.
Amongst these shocked, celebrity Roxanne Perez.
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Ricky Starks makes his entrance throughout NXT at WWE Efficiency Middle on Feb. 11, 2025 in Orlando, Florida. (Eric Johnson/WWE through Getty Pictures)
The 2-time NXT girls’s champion, who has a shot at an historic third title reign at NXT Vengeance Day on Saturday, was amongst these shocked.
Perez informed Fox Information Digital in a current interview she has recognized Starks since she was youthful and was excited to see him on the model. Moreover, she didn’t even know he was going to be there.
“It was superior. I’ve recognized Ricky Starks since I used to be actually 15 years previous. He got here up in Texas as I did, so we undoubtedly bumped into one another loads,” she mentioned. “I didn’t even know he was going to be there. I didn’t even see him stroll out into the group. I noticed it on the TV display screen with everyone else and that made me so completely happy as a result of he’s superior. He’s such a fantastic particular person and I believe he deserves all the pieces.”
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Ricky Starks visits the #IMDboat official portrait studio at San Diego Comedian-Con 2022 on The IMDb Yacht on July 23, 2022 in San Diego. (Irvin Rivera/Getty Pictures for IMDb)
Starks had not made any AEW appearances since final March and had been seen in just a few cases in Recreation Changer Wrestling, Home of Glory and DEFY.
Followers cheered within the stands when he confirmed up.
“It’s apparent who I’m,” he mentioned. “If NXT is the way forward for skilled wrestling, nicely guess what? You want an absolute celebrity of the long run. If that is the most well liked model, nicely you want the most well liked free agent proper now, child.”
Perez added that she hoped Starks rising on NXT will result in some type of work collectively.
“To see him right here now and hopefully perhaps get to work with him, that’s going to be superior.”
Roxanne Perez through the Girls’s Royal Rumble through the WWE Royal Rumble at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on Feb. 1, 2025. (Joe Camporeale-Imagn Pictures)
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Perez will look to earn the NXT Girls’s Championship again in a deadly four-way match towards present champion Giulia, Bayley and Cora Jade.
Vengeance Day is ready for Saturday at 5:30 p.m. ET in Washington, D.C.
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