Eddie Kingston recently appeared as a guest on the Wrestling With Freddie show for an in-depth interview with actor turned WWE writer and current podcast host Freddie Prinze Jr.
During the discussion, "The Mad King" opened up on his childhood, how he got former WWE veteran Ted DiBiase to train him and his friends as a young aspiring pro wrestler.
Featured below are some of the highlights from the interview where he touches on these topics with his thoughts and memories.
On his childhood: “I grew up in a house that was pretty rough. It was New York. My father and his brothers grew up in New York during the ’50s, ’60s, and 70s, and it wasn’t good. It wasn’t nice. I’ve seen some stuff that went down. I was like the Christopher Columbus of the grand kids. I saw the tail end of a lot of bad things, and that kind of sticks with you here. It just stuck with me over time. I also learned that no one talks. No one talks about nothing. Inside my grandmother’s house, my grandmother Mary’s house, was madness. It would be just madness in the house, but as soon as we walked outside, they used to call it being like the Kennedys. We would just wave. Everything’s great. No one knows nothing. Everything’s great. Yeah. My nephew just threw someone through a window. It doesn’t matter. Everything’s good outside in public.”
On recruiting Ted DiBiase to train him: “You always need the fundamentals. I’ll drop a name. He probably would never remember this. But a little story, I got kicked out of my first wrestling school. Surprise. Me and my old partner, Blackjack Marciano, and a bunch of other friends, Jigsaw and a couple other guys, were so desperate to keep learning that we got our money together, we rented a ring, and paid for Ted DiBiase to come and teach us, like a flight, a shi**y hotel, and all this stuff. The best advice he ever gave us was. ‘The fundamentals never change. You need them no matter what.’ So for us in the ring, it’s not just the technique, it’s the fundamentals.”
Check out the complete interview at Apple.com. H/T to WrestlingNews.co for transcribing the above quotes.
