AEW star Eddie Kingston was a recent guest on “The Wrestling Perspective Podcast” and revealed that his feud with CM Punk in All Elite Wrestling triggered him mentally.
Additionally, Kingston would comment on the authenticity of his promos with CM Punk during their feud.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On what CM Punk feud did to him mentally: “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.
“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 the authenticity of his promos with CM 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.”
(h/t – Wrestling Inc)
