In a recent appearance on the “DAVINci Report,” Eddie Kingston shared his experience competing in the NJPW G1 Climax tournament last year.
Kingston said, “I don’t know if I was, in another life, born in Japan or something. I don’t know. I just feel — the best way I can put it to someone is, I feel no stress. It was the first time I didn’t get angry for like 30 days when I was there, I felt like I could breathe in Japan.”
Kingston also named his matches with Shingo Takagi and Tomohiro Ishii as his best of that brief run.
And finally, on a recent edition of the “Hawk’s Nest” podcast, Alex Zayne recalled the worst injury he ever received, which was severe trauma to his genitals.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On the worst injury he ever received: “Backyard show, me and and a backyard friend of mine, this was actually in Kentucky, I took a curb stomp outside of the ring. It was on the concrete, but I took it into the guardrail. My idea, of course. I was like, ‘Oh, I’ll take it into the guardrail, it’ll be crazy, I’ll get some color, it’ll be cool.’ In front of literally no one because it was a backyard match. It was just like me and the boys. So that day, I used to wear Hayabusa-inspired baggy leather pants, and I always wore compression shorts and whatever under them, but this day, this fateful day, I did not wear my compression shorts. So I was wearing the baggy boxers underneath, so I take the curb stomp. My member is just swinging free in there, and so it gets smashed between the concrete and my pelvis, and it smashes so hard that it bursts out the side. So I broke my member. Little Zayne. Tiny, little, baby Zayne.”
On the extent of the injury: “Full meat came out, brother. Full meat [laughs]. Yeah, actually when I got to the back, because I didn’t know in the moment that it was split and broke, whatever you want to call it, when I got to the back, it was laying there, split open with a bubble of meat hanging out.”
On how the injury was treated: “I don’t know because I never went to the hospital. Yeah [it’s still gnarly]. Fortunately, it went back to strength, so we’re good on that. But there was a scar. There was a lot of bruising. I actually just packed the meat back in, little bubble of meat, packed it back in, put a little butterfly bandaid on there.”
