To me, it’s felt like he has one foot out the door since Cody left. He talks about Cody a lot, and I get it, Cody’s his mentor and friend. It didn’t seem to help him much his gimmick grew stale and he didn’t seem to change it up, and whether that is on him or not, I couldn’t tell you, but I’ve seen others in AEW change up their gimmicks, specifically I’m enjoying the massive change in Jungle Jack.
Anyway… ending my rambling, it looks like he wants to follow Cody, and if I can see that, TK can probably see that and I don’t blame him for not pushing him to the moon or bringing him back if his contract is up soon. I say that as someone who really thought he was going to blow up a couple of years ago.
Which if I heard the JR/Conrad video I saw yesterday correctly, JR is responsible for that change, smart man.
But yeah I pretty much agree. He’s clocked out and coasting it feels like. I had high hopes, but he seems to just wanna coast.
I know it’s not as relevant to the discussion but I tend to feel the same when it comes to wrestlers who just do nothing when they aren’t booked. Ricky could be (in his AEW downtime) hitting the indies, pulling in some extra cash, increasing his profile. Doing something to make TK go “Hmm…maybe I can do something with him…” but since joining AEW Starks has taken 2-4 indie bookings period. He doesn’t need to and shouldn’t feel like he has to of course, but if you’re just sitting at home letting yourself rust and get forgotten about then it’s definitely not gonna make your booker think better of you. It’s not WWE where you ‘can’t’ take outside bookings, do something Ricky lol.
To me, it’s felt like he has one foot out the door since Cody left. He talks about Cody a lot, and I get it, Cody’s his mentor and friend. It didn’t seem to help him much his gimmick grew stale and he didn’t seem to change it up, and whether that is on him or not, I couldn’t tell you, but I’ve seen others in AEW change up their gimmicks, specifically I’m enjoying the massive change in Jungle Jack.
Anyway… ending my rambling, it looks like he wants to follow Cody, and if I can see that, TK can probably see that and I don’t blame him for not pushing him to the moon or bringing him back if his contract is up soon. I say that as someone who really thought he was going to blow up a couple of years ago.
Which if I heard the JR/Conrad video I saw yesterday correctly, JR is responsible for that change, smart man.
But yeah I pretty much agree. He’s clocked out and coasting it feels like. I had high hopes, but he seems to just wanna coast.
I know it’s not as relevant to the discussion but I tend to feel the same when it comes to wrestlers who just do nothing when they aren’t booked. Ricky could be (in his AEW downtime) hitting the indies, pulling in some extra cash, increasing his profile. Doing something to make TK go “Hmm…maybe I can do something with him…” but since joining AEW Starks has taken 2-4 indie bookings period. He doesn’t need to and shouldn’t feel like he has to of course, but if you’re just sitting at home letting yourself rust and get forgotten about then it’s definitely not gonna make your booker think better of you. It’s not WWE where you ‘can’t’ take outside bookings, do something Ricky lol.