Effy responds to AEW pulling Ricky Starks from GCW events

Effy has responded to AEW pulling Ricky Starks from GCW events. Starks made a surprise appearance at GCW’s show on November 23 and looked to be entering a program with Matt Cardona. However, three days later, GCW announced that Starks had been pulled from all upcoming bookings with the company. Fightful would later report that AEW pulled Starks from the shows partly due to Effy’s podcast comments regarding AEW booking Hammerstein Ballroom a month before GCW returned to the venue in January. “Brett (Lauderdale) does not own a football team. Brett doesn’t have a dad who pays him to stay away. I don’t want this to be a personal thing. I don’t, but hey guys, you aren’t the only game in town,” Effy said last month.   Our own Dave Meltzer confirmed the news in last week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter, writing, “While nobody officially said anything, the strong belief, actually confirmed to us, is that it was the comments from Effy of GCW on Tony Khan, particularly a line he said about Khan’s father paying him to