During an appearance on the Wrestling With Freddie podcast, AEW star Eddie Kingston explained how much his promos mean to him. He said,
“I’ve been talking shit my whole life, to be honest with you. People are like ‘Oh, you’re so great at promos’. These are not promos to me. This is therapy to me. So all the stuff I feel in my chest or in my stomach during the week where I can’t let out,” said Eddie. I can work out, I can do Muay Thai, I can have my girlfriend choke me out in Jiu-Jitsu, which she always does. She’s a black belt, [my belt is] eggshell-colored white. I’d rather just throw punches, that’s why I like Muay Thai. But the emotional stuff, I can’t let out until I get in that ring and have a microphone. So people are like, ‘Everything you say feels so real!’ That’s because it is.”
In the past, Kingston has been given scripts but he always preferred to be himself: “Well, even if we were scripted, I’ve been in lower-level promotions— I guess, compared to AEW, I don’t mean any disrespect, where they’ll write stuff out for you. I always just ask them, ‘Hey, can I be myself?’ I know there is this whole thing with wrestlers against writers, or fans against writers. Let’s all relax. Let’s all calm down. Everything goes together at some point.”
(h/t – Fightful)
