Kingston is going to push forward until he’s back where he needs to be mentally and physically.
It is coming up on a full year since Eddie Kingston went down with a torn ACL and meniscus that he suffered at NJPW Resurgence. Kingston is currently rehabbing from surgery.
There was an update from Kingston that he provided on the Way of the Blade podcast. He was asked who he’d like to feud with in AEW and Kingston shared that he’s not been actively watching the product lately and explained why.
He watched AEW Revolution and it made him feel like he cannot hang with the current talent roster. Kingston did not tune in to Dynasty for that reason. He’s trying to focus on his recovery and getting back to where he was mentally and physically. He added that when he has down moments, he’ll speak to either his parents, girlfriend, Ethan Page, Ortiz or Homicide.
This will probably get clipped or f*cking whatever. I don’t care… I haven’t really watched AEW. I watched the — not Dynasty. The pay-per-view before that, Revolution, and just, you know, I’m at a place right now where I’m trying to — my mind is like a minefield right now, with this injury and trying to get back, that I’m just trying to maneuver my way around these minefields, and watching that pay-per-view made me just go, ‘I can’t hang with these guys.’ Made me doubt myself. So I’m more focused on breaking that doubt than somebody I can feud with… And here comes the egotistical side of me. No one can hang with me if they wanna feud. A lot of guys are pro wrestling-tough, are pro wrestling-crazy. I’ve done it outside. I’ve done sh*t that it’s real life. I’m not saying I’m from the ghetto and all that. No. I grew up in a good neighborhood but chose to be an asshole. I chose to go down a certain path, because I didn’t want people to f*ck with me. It’s a whole psychology thing. I didn’t want people to f*ck with me so I wanted to show everyone I was tough. Let me go hang out in the tough neighborhoods. That was my mental at eight, nine years old. So I don’t think anyone — if they wanna go, I don’t think they can, to be honest. But… see, the yin and yang, the duality of Eddie is that I gotta first feel like I can hang with them and as of right now, as of today, Yankees lose, April 8th, 2025. Right now, my body is telling me I can’t hang with nobody right now. I need time. So I can’t even think about feuding with anybody right now. First, I gotta get myself physically and mentally ready… I’ll get there. Trust me, I’ll get there. Has (*audio blurs*) my mind? More than it has ever. To the point where now I’m worried that maybe I should sometime, if I’m thinking about it this much. But then, I talk to people close to me, I talk to my lady, I talk to my lady who just had ACL surgery herself. That’s what happens when you’re a black belt in jiu jitsu. For all those years, I tell her, ‘Stop doing that sh*t.’ But, I talk to my mother first, my father. I talk to people real close to me in wrestling like Ethan Page, Ortiz, monkey as I call him. I talk to those kind of people and they — and Homicide of course. My girl said it the other day because I was flipping out about something about wrestling. She lets me sound off. Homicide called me right after and gave me a pep talk, and I said, ‘Why’d you call me?’ He goes, ‘I don’t know. I just had a feeling.’ He always does that. That’s why I call him my guardian angel. It’s the weirdest thing ever. A guy named Homicide, Dee. Dee is my guardian angel so, that’s what I’m going through right now and I will get there and then when I do get there mentally and ready to rock, ask me that question.
A moment on AEW Dynamite that Kingston did come across was when AEW World Champion Jon Moxley landed on Cope’s spiked bat. Kingston did not understand the backlash to it and said he’s seen Moxley go through worse.
The spiked bat thing, I didn’t get it (why people were so upset). I seen Mox go through worse.
Following up on that, podcast co-host Phil Schneider mentioned that wrestlers can get injured performing the simplest of maneuvers. Kingston responded by speaking about past injuries he suffered while performing moves he’s done countless times, including the one that shelved him in 2024.
Or take a back body drop like I did. Take a back body drop that I’ve taken a million times and break my ankle as I over-rotated or my recent ACL injury. I took a bump from the ring, through a table on the outside. I’ve taken that bump — no sh*t, no sh*t, I’ve counted it — 55 times in my career. It was the 55th time because I counted that one that I got hurt. It happens. Only time I ever get mad if someone gets hurt is when it’s done on purpose. That’s it. If it’s a crazy move, yeah, okay.
The 22-year veteran has been a part of AEW coming up on five years. Prior to his injury, Kingston was coming off of holding the AEW Continental, ROH World and NJPW STRONG Openweight Titles at the same time.
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