Eddie Kingston is one of those personalities whose energy in contagious. He’s a great talker and one of the best at cutting promos in professional wrestling and he’s taken it to another level in AEW.
He’s a straight shooter and that makes it hard to tell if he’s doing a shoot or staying in character.
In a recent interview to promote AEW Dynamite in the UBS Center he opened up about who he doesn’t like in wrestling, and the names may be surprising.
Not a fan of each other
While wrestling is scripted, it doesn’t mean everyone gets a long and Kingston explained that his promo with CM Punk wasn’t a promo, it was really them letting their mutual dislike come out.
He did say that while they actually fought during their match, they remained professional and will when they face each other.
Special thanks to wrestlinginc.com for the transcripts.
“The thing with Punk, I guess you could say the ‘promo’, it wasn’t a promo. He doesn’t like me, I don’t like him. And we’ve had a lot of things to say to each other that we’ve never had the chance to say to each other. We’ve either said it to friends, mutual friends of each other, or we just decided to ignore each other or whatever. There’s a lot of other things, I’m not going to get too inside baseball on it, there’s a lot of stuff that went on behind the scenes that nobody really needs to know. But yeah, that wasn’t a promo. That was something we’ve both wanted to say to each other for fifteen years. That was fifteen years of buildup for both of us.
“So then you think ‘how do you follow that up with a match?’ It wasn’t a match, we actually fought. I hit him, he hit me, you know what I mean? When it was over, we didn’t shake each other’s hands after the match like people do. We didn’t go on Twitter and say how great and lucky we were to face each other. Punk don’t like me, I don’t like Punk. That’s it. That’s the end of it. There’s no promo, there’s no ‘this is made up’, this is reality and that’s it. When we have to get into the ring, we’ll be professional, but you know for a fact we’re going to take a lot of shots at each other. If the fans enjoy it, they enjoy it. At that point, with someone like him who I don’t like, I don’t care if people like it or not at that point. It could’ve been zero people in the audience, I was going to hit him.”
Unity in the locker room
We hear a lot about how current locker rooms are more unified as everyone gets along and respects each other, which is a far cry from the shark mentality of years gone by.
And while Kingston has said he’s not the biggest fan of the Young Bucks, he praised them for having a hand in creating a welcome and comfortable locker room.
“They’re the reason, the Bucks, Cody and Kenny, they’re the reason the locker room is the way it is. They want to do it the old school way. They didn’t want to do it where you have to walk on eggshells and scared about breathing the wrong way. No, they wanted a locker room where you’d feel comfortable, but respectful. That’s what we have here, and that’s why a lot of people don’t mess around here, because they don’t want to mess up the good vibe or the more relaxed-ness of the locker room than the other place. So they come in here and if we see anyone acting up, we’re like ‘my man, we’re not letting you come in and mess this up for us.’ Because this is probably the best place that any of us have ever worked. So we’re not coming in here trying to mess this up. And if someone comes in here trying to mess things up, they’re usually out the door before they even knew what happened.”
This is a great testament to the new mentality and feel AEW has that makes it fresh and it comes across through the television set.
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