Ricky Starks

Ray Phoenix, who's got a busy weekend ahead of him at TripleMania.

Ray Phoenix is going to defend his AAA Cruiserweight Championship here against Ricky Saints.

Phoenix is defending his title on Sunday in a four-way.

He's gonna be putting it on the line against Nathan Frazer, uh, Jack Cartwheel, and Mini Vikingo.

He's got the big four-way coming up on Sunday.

He just defended his title tonight, Penta on Monday.

So Ricky Saints interrupted, and he said, "Look, I, I just want to apologize for what happened earlier.

Obviously, I hate losing, but I shouldn't have walked away from you like that." And he told Phoenix that he was the better man, and he shook his hand.

Um, all right.

So up next, we got Rey Fenix versus Ricky Saints for the AAA Cruiserweight Championship.

This match pretty much entirely built through online exclusives.

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They could not cut away from the ring fast enough to go to the next segment.

And Ricky Saints, he was back on the show.

Where he's been, I don't know.

He wrestled Rey Fenix for the Triple A Cruiserweight Championship.

We got a nice, very nice video package about 9/11 narrated obviously, he's gotta be, was gonna be no other way, narrated by Triple H. Today's the 25th anniversary of 9/11.

9/11.

Rey Fenix, he went one on one with a returning Ricky Saints.

Why this match took place, I don't know.

sense.We are just moving on here, uh, so we can get to some of the fun stuff here as well.

We got our first look at a signed Topps debut patch for Ricky Saints.

Um, we knew what the design looks like thanks to all the previews that they've put out in the cards from Chrome last year.

So just so everybody understands, Topps in every sport uses either a Chrome, like a readily available SKU, so it's not like Royalty where there's only like a couple thousand cases.

Mm.

Last year we had five.

This year there's gonna be a significantly higher amount of those, including Oba Femi and of course Ricky Saints.

I have also confirmed that I believe Danhausen is in this set as well.

Yeah.

Especially fun because in, like, years we'll be looking at it like footage of, you know, Ricky Saints being a security guard for Brock.

Oh, yeah.

Or when Samoa Joe pushed MJF out of the way when he was walking down the hallway.

Let's kick it off with the news.

Effie reflects on the controversial situation involving Ricky Saints and Tony Khan slash AEW.

In late 2024, the former Ricky Starks was announced for multiple GCW shows.

At the time, he was not being used in AEW.

Before that, nobody else had ran that building in years.

It did seem a little odd that they were going to run it for three days the month before.

If I was in a big company and this little gay boy kept saying things that were affecting my business, whether it be Ronda Rousey, whether it be something that goes down at a big gay brunch, whether it be anything, it has to be extremely frustrating to know that you have to have meanings about me, but you can't say anything to me." Effie also took a moment to look at the current standing of Ricky Saints, who is now signed to WWE, saying, quote, I'll look at the current landscape and say this.

Ricky Saints is a title-holding WWE superstar.

Yeah, I could see him being a guy who'd have some good Memphis-style 1984 main event Mid-South Coliseum matches against Jerry Lawler as a bigger, arrogant heel who's, you know, but...

What'd you think of Ricky Starks tonight, by the way, Jay? Because we round out just a couple rapid-fire thoughts.

I mean, I was...

I guess I'm a little bit encouraged.

From there, AAA Cruiserweight Championship.

Rey Fenix defending against Ricky Saints.

This is a fantastic match.

And look, everything Fenix is doing lately.

He sat there doing a whole lot of nothing for a very long time, and now he's getting an opportunity to really shine, and the fans love it, just like they love Penta.

This is a style of wrestling WWE has not always embraced, but they are right now.

Ricky Saints, it's nice to see him in a match that's meaningful and has some consequence to it.

The only hard part I have with Ricky Saints is I'd like to see him stop losing all the time.

While on SmackDown, you had the AAA Cruiserweight Championship being defended.

Rey Fenix would go against Ricky Saints and defeat Ricky to retain his Cruiserweight Championship.

You had Paige going against Nikki Bella.

Nikki would win the match.

And that's like your two big major stories that happened on Raw.

Now on SmackDown, championship matches galore.

I like Ricky Saints and Rey Fenix having their Cruiserweight matchup for the AAA Cruiserweight title.

I liked it.