{"id":52485,"date":"2019-08-13T13:25:44","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T17:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/?p=52485"},"modified":"2020-09-04T11:39:53","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T15:39:53","slug":"indie-star-ricky-starks-signs-with-nwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/08\/13\/indie-star-ricky-starks-signs-with-nwa\/","title":{"rendered":"Indie Star Ricky Starks Signs with NWA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On today&#8217;s video release from the <strong>National Wrestling Alliance (NWA)<\/strong>, which featured &#8220;Cowboy&#8221; <strong>James Storm<\/strong> defending his NWA National Heavyweight Championship against one half of One Percent,<strong> Jorel Nelson<\/strong>, it was revealed that NWA had signed<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2019\/01\/25\/indie-watch-extra-talented-absolute-ricky-starks\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> indie star <strong>Ricky Starks<\/strong><\/a> to join the NWA.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The latest signee to the National Wrestling Alliance&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>See him on Sept 30 and October 1 in Atlanta, GA!<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZPTySE5pZ0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/ZPTySE5pZ0<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/starkmanjones?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@StarkmanJones<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wWIpixcpDP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/wWIpixcpDP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NWA (@nwa) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nwa\/status\/1161321516455342084?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 13, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>With the NWA <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2019\/07\/24\/nwa-looking-to-join-weekly-tv-line-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gearing up for its first TV tapings in decades<\/a>, happening September 30 and October 1 in Atlanta, Georgia, expect the NWA to announce a flurry of signings to compliment its roster that currently features NWA World&#8217;s Heavyweight Champion <strong>Nick Aldis<\/strong>, NWA World Women&#8217;s Champion <strong>Allysin Kay<\/strong>, James Storm, and former IMPACT World Champion <strong>Eli Drake<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ricky Starks vs ACH\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/skn0g9Nqs1E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ricky Starks has long been a part of the <strong>Extra Talented<\/strong> tag team that also features <strong>Aaron Solow<\/strong>, but the standout from the Texas indies has an impressive resume as a singles wrestler as well. Starting out in the Texas indie scene in 2012, Starks began with the likes of <strong>Anarchy Championship Wrestling (ACW)<\/strong> and <strong>Inspire Pro<\/strong>, and has worked in Europe with the likes of <strong>PROGRESS Wrestling, Fight Club: PRO<\/strong>, and more, as well as having a tour with Japan&#8217;s <strong>DDT Pro<\/strong> earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"[FREE MATCH] Ricky Starks vs. Sammy Guevara - INSPIRE PRO WRESTLING\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IdhyW0leJAc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to the<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_self\">\u00a0Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a>\u00a0for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On today&#8217;s video release from the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), which featured &#8220;Cowboy&#8221; James Storm defending his NWA National Heavyweight Championship against one half of One Percent, Jorel Nelson, it was revealed that NWA had signed indie star Ricky Starks to join the NWA. The latest signee to the National Wrestling Alliance&#8230; See him on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":52489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,6504],"tags":[771,4318],"class_list":["post-52485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-america","category-nwa","tag-nwa","tag-ricky-starks"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}