Possibly the most high-profile sports agent in Australia, Ricky Nixon established his sports management company, Flying Start, in 1994 after eight years of teaching physical education at Carey Grammar.
25 Facts About Ricky Nixon
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Ricky Nixon grew considerably to become one of the leading sports management companies in Australia.
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Ricky Nixon was a pioneer of group marketing of prominent athletes in Australia with his Club 10 team of AFL players, which included Gary Ablett Sr.
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Ricky Nixon is widely acknowledged as a major leader in the innovative marketing of athletes and has been rated by The Age newspaper as the fourth-most-influential person of the past decade in the AFL.
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In 2000, Ricky Nixon rorted the salary cup to secure his client Wayne Carey an additional $400,000 in salary.
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Ricky Nixon started a fitness club at Docklands Stadium, where he co-owned the Locker Room Bar and Cougars Sports Bar with Michael Gudinski.
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Ricky Nixon commentated AFL on radio station Triple M and has been awarded the Australia Day Sports Medal for services to sport by the prime minister.
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Ricky Nixon has since entered the education business with Flying Start providing online courses, including "How to be a Sports Agent".
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In 2008, Ricky Nixon began a well-publicised campaign to escalate the Irish experiment and set up a formal system for recruiting promising young Irish Gaelic footballers for AFL teams.
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Ricky Nixon was deeply affected by the death of his longtime friend Clinton Grybas in January 2008, and subsequently lapsed into drug and alcohol addiction.
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On 19 February 2011, it was claimed by a number of press agencies that Ricky Nixon had an inappropriate relationship with a 17-year-old girl.
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Ricky Nixon admitted to visiting the girl at her hotel room on at least three occasions and providing her with alcohol.
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Ricky Nixon described an incident in which he pondered suicide while in England, but was talked out of it by former St Kilda President Rod Butterss, who encouraged him to return to Australia.
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Ricky Nixon was given a two-year suspension by the AFL Players' Association Accreditation Board, on 18 March 2011.
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In July 2012 Ricky Nixon was charged with five offences following an alleged assault.
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In March 2013 Ricky Nixon pleaded guilty to charges of assault against his former fiancee and attempting to flee the police.
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Ricky Nixon was sentenced to 200 hours of community service.
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In May 2013 Ricky Nixon was pulled over by police for speaking on his mobile phone while driving; he was found to be driving while intoxicated and with a suspended licence.
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In 2013, Ricky Nixon launched a stand-up comedy routine titled "Chicken Train", and announced plans to perform at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
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Ricky Nixon has now been accused of kneeing a police officer while in court facing prior assault charges.
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The incident reportedly occurred at the Melbourne Magistrates court where Ricky Nixon was facing charges stemming from an incident in March 2022.
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Ricky Nixon's lawyers claimed that the former football agent was acting in self-defence at the time.
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In 2014, Ricky Nixon relaunched Flying Start International as a sports agency and consultancy, having retained the rights to the brand.
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Ricky Nixon stated that he did not intend to regain accreditation.
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In 2015, Ricky Nixon was arrested for allegedly threatening to assault a two-year-old child on Facebook.