When it comes to rivals in AEW, few feuds will feel as real as that of Jon Moxley & Eddie Kingston. On the road to Full Gear 2020, they would drag out personal issues and got fans invested into their main event clash. Afterwards they’d become allies, and work together to battle Kenny Omega & The Young Bucks, with Kingston being a constant in the corner of Moxley. They’ve always supported each other, and Kingston knows that Moxley wanted to work with him on TV sooner.
Eddie Kingston Doesn’t Like Scripts
While speaking to Alex McCarthy of TalkSPORT, Kingston would talk about the match at Full Gear 2020 – and the promos that preceded it. Nothing was scripted, making everything feel that extra level of real.
“That was so much fun to be in there with him. A lot of it was just… I don’t think about what I’m going to say and neither does Mox. We may have a line in our head and we’re like ‘aight, we’re just gonna say that line and see how the people react or our opponents react’ then we see what comes into our heads after that so we can be from the heart. It’s not scripted.
I’m not against scripts. I know a lot of people are. I’m not against it because some people need it. Some people don’t. Me and Jon are two people who are lucky enough, well, Jon is talented enough, I’m lucky enough where I can’t remember things, so you can’t give me a script!
You got to give me little points and then I can work with that and build off that. That whole face-to-face wasn’t supposed to happen like that, we just got into it. We felt the moment and we spoke about certain things that are real life in there to mix in with the wrestling,”
Jon Moxley Tried To Get Him Into WWE
While they had a lot of time to work together in AEW, Kingston wasn’t able to follow Moxley to WWE. The only time Kingston did anything involving WWE was a big Evolve show that showed up on the WWE Network, leaving a single promo from Kingston on the WWE YouTube channel. However, Moxley did push for WWE to sign his old friend – as told by Kingston.
“ Jon has been one of the biggest advocates for me in my whole career since we met. A lot of people don’t know that he was trying to get me into WWE years ago. Trying his best to do what he could. ‘Hey, I told this guy to check you out. And this is me and Jon not talking for years and out of nowhere he’ll text me ‘Hey, I told so and so to watch your match from blah blah blah’ and I’ll be like ‘Who is this?’ And he’ll be like ‘Jon’ and I’ll be like ‘Oh hey, what’s up Mox?”
It’s hard to imagine someone like Kingston working in WWE, with his stiff style and passionate promo style. He could have worked in a role like that of Kevin Owens – but someone like Kingston really needs freedom to shine.
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