Eddie Kingston recently appeared as a guest on the Wrestling Perspective podcast for an in-depth interview covering all things pro wrestling.
During the discussion, "The Mad King" spoke about being miserable after his rivalry with CM Punk in AEW due to how authentic it was, the back-and-forth promos the two had on television and more.
Featured below are some of the highlights from the interview where he touches on these topics with his thoughts.
On how it was hard for him to unplug after feud with CM Punk: “After the showdown there with Punk, as I like to call it, I had to walk away from everybody so I could break out of that mental state where I just wanted to kill everybody. Everything I said to Punk was real. I just have to break out of that because then I would’ve been miserable the whole day. I would’ve been, as my father would say, sitting in my own s*it and not getting out of my own way.
On how he wanted to fight everybody: “There was a moment with Mox, where me and Mox were yelling at each other in Jacksonville, where we went back and forth. I had to walk away from everybody because I was so into it. I was 17 again. After those two showdowns or promos, I was 17 again. When I was 17, that’s basically my character, is me at 17. When I was at 17, I was just angry. I hated the world and wanted to fight everybody. In a sick kind of twisted way, I was suicidal in a way that I didn’t want to kill myself, but I wanted someone else to do it.”
On how authentic the promos were between himself and Punk: “There’s a lot of things said between me and him [CM Punk] that we did not get to say to each other as long as we’ve known each other. It was either because I didn’t wanna say it to him because I didn’t want to deal with him or he just didn’t want to deal with me. When we got the chance to, we let it all out and people enjoyed it.”
Check out the complete interview at Apple.com. H/T to WrestlingInc.com for transcribing the above quotes.
