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Eddie Kingston explaining some his mental struggles he’s encountered:
“My career before AEW was one step forward, four steps back because I would just shoot myself in the foot because of my temper,” Eddie said. “It was the mental health issues.”
“There was a period of time I think in 2007, 2008, where I was on a roll. I was at all these big Indies like Ring of Honor and PWG. I was wrestling every weekend, three times, four times a week, and then I would just get in my own head saying, ‘I don’t deserve this’. I’m drinking and I’m sitting in New York in the drunk tank missing flights.”
“Then I would just come back again and everyone’s like, ‘Oh, we’re so happy. You’re back on track’, and then I would go right off. Either someone pisses me off in the locker room and I’m screaming and yelling, or a promoter tells me to do something, or a promoter doesn’t pay me right, and I’m going to the cash box to take the money from him,” Kingston continued.
“Then you get a bad reputation. I was almost 300 pounds at one point because I just didn’t work out. So my career is just, it’s up and down. I’m my own worst enemy.”
”Even at AEW there’s moments, there’s moments, man, I tell people all the time there’s moments where old Eddie, 20 something or 30 something old Eddie is whispering in my ear saying, ‘No, go ahead man. Blow it all the way. Blow it all up.'”
“My career before AEW was one step forward, four steps back because I would just shoot myself in the foot because of my temper,” Eddie said. “It was the mental health issues.”
“There was a period of time I think in 2007, 2008, where I was on a roll. I was at all these big Indies like Ring of Honor and PWG. I was wrestling every weekend, three times, four times a week, and then I would just get in my own head saying, ‘I don’t deserve this’. I’m drinking and I’m sitting in New York in the drunk tank missing flights.”
“Then I would just come back again and everyone’s like, ‘Oh, we’re so happy. You’re back on track’, and then I would go right off. Either someone pisses me off in the locker room and I’m screaming and yelling, or a promoter tells me to do something, or a promoter doesn’t pay me right, and I’m going to the cash box to take the money from him,” Kingston continued.
“Then you get a bad reputation. I was almost 300 pounds at one point because I just didn’t work out. So my career is just, it’s up and down. I’m my own worst enemy.”
”Even at AEW there’s moments, there’s moments, man, I tell people all the time there’s moments where old Eddie, 20 something or 30 something old Eddie is whispering in my ear saying, ‘No, go ahead man. Blow it all the way. Blow it all up.'”
