In a recent interview with Chris Van Vliet as part of the Insight With Chris Van Vliet podcast, All Elite Wrestling star Ricky Starks discussed several topics, including his absence from All Elite Wrestling, why he does not have a definitive answer as to why he’s being kept off television and more.

“I’ve been home, I’ve been healthy, never was I injured. I did have a stinger, I got a stinger in that match against Top Flight in March, I got immediately checked out and everything was fine, but I was just concerned at the time, so that happened and then I was just home, and that’s kind of where it’s been at.

I’ve just been home, it’s kind of, it’s a mindf***, because I’m in my prime and it sucks when you’re on such a momentum, riding the wave and doing work and doing stuff, and then to just be at home for so long, you’re kind of like, whoa, it throws it off you know.

I am not meant to be at home, I’m not meant to be a homebody. In this current phase in my life, I’m not meant to be just chilling at home and not doing the thing that I’ve been busting my a** to do for the past 13 years.

I could have a thousand theories about what’s really going on, the fact of the matter is that if I don’t have a definitive answer, I can’t just make up an answer for people and just assume, you know what I’m saying.

Would I love to know the exact reason, for sure, do I have speculations about why, absolutely, but that does nothing, to speak on things that I speculate does nothing for the situation, so I think it’s just a matter of, it sucks.

It’s been a very cold day here in Austin, it’s been a very cold day, may have been cold for the past 9 months, not sure, but thankfully I have a sweater, and I’m always ready to keep the warmth going.

I don’t think that’s ever crossed my mind of like, you’re being punished, because that wouldn’t serve me at all to think like that right, I would be depressed and like, angry, that wouldn’t serve me.”

The full interview is available at this link.