For Eddie Kingston, a wrestler who toiled in the independents for years before getting the biggest stage of his career in AEW, a program with an iconic superstar like Chris Jericho could very easily be seen as a career highlight.
But according to the Mad King himself … maybe not so much.
As Kingston told host Phil Stum on this week’s episode of the Under the Ring podcast, the lessons he took from his recent feud with Jericho may not have been the ones you’d expect.
“I don’t like Chris, so being in the ring with him was a headache,” Kingston said.
“Did I learn a lot? Yeah, I learned what it was to be a snake backstage like Chris. I learned how to avoid people like Chris and his group. So I did learn from it. But it was seven months of my life that I can’t ever have back, so thanks a lot, Chris.”
You can listen to the entire interview above, including Kingston talking to Strum about:
- The surreal nature of being in AEW at this stage in his career, and the pressure he feels to deliver
- Why the Eddie Kingston “character” is true to his real personality from his teenage years
- Advice he’d give to other wrestlers on how to get better on the microphone
- How he enjoyed his time on commentary for AEW’s secondary shows
- Why YouTube has helped him so much as a student of wrestling in general
- Who is on his list of dream opponents
Under the Ring releases new episodes every Monday, each featuring an insightful conversation between longtime journalist Strum and a fascinating personality from the world of pro wrestling. Recent guests have included former WWE head writer Brian Gewirtz, Wrestling Observer’s Dave Meltzer and WWE SmackDown Women’s Champion Liv Morgan.
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