It was a scary moment for Ricky Starks when he suffered a neck injury.
AEW’s FTW Champion recently appeared on Sirius XM’s Busted Open Radio to discuss his injury and how he initially thought of the worst-case scenario:
“I did have the thought of…ya know, when it happened that ‘this is where it goes downhill’. I’ve gone to school for physical therapy and I know an injury to the neck is a huge deal because when you have an injury like that, especially with the neck, pretty much everything else starts to follow, you start to have issues in other places and whatnot. I’m not saying you can’t come back from a neck injury but for 11 years, from never having an injury to getting a neck injury, the worst ideas came into my head in that this is pretty much it. I never thought I’d be the same and pretty much the in-ring career was over.”
Starks suffered a slight neck fracture during the April 21 edition of AEW Dynamite and would make his return at Fyter Fest on July 14.
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