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Eddie Kingston Wants To Take People For An Emotional Ride When He Wrestles

AEW star Eddie Kingston wants to take people for an emotional ride when he performs.

“The Mad King” has become a fan-favorite star since he arrived in the company in 2020. He has been involved in a number of memorable matches and feuds; most recently, he has been locked in a heated rivalry with Chris Jericho, and the war came to a head in the Blood & Guts match on the June 29 edition of AEW Dynamite. This high-profile bout the latest in a series of occasions in which Kingston has been placed in a buzzworthy contest.

During an appearance on the MackMania podcast, when asked about delivering every time AEW calls his number, “The Mad King” noted that he’s very hard on himself, so he always aims to improve. He expressed his mission to be “perfect” and stated that while he may not get to the level of some all-time greats, he’s trying to. Kingston went on to describe that he just wants people to feel something when he’s in the ring.

“My thing is, I don’t know,” said Kingston. “I don’t think I always deliver. I’m very hard on myself, just to start off the conversation. Look at how uncomfortable I’m getting when he put me over. Because I always feel like there’s more. I don’t feel like I reached where I wanna reach. I wanna be perfect. I know I’m never gonna get there. And to me, the perfect wrestlers are Terry Funk, Kenta Kobashi, those are my two perfect wrestlers. But I’m trying to get to their level. I know I may not, but I’m trying to get there. So that’s why when you say am I delivering, nah, I feel like I need to do more because I’m not there yet. I’m gonna get there, I’m gonna get close, I know I am. But I’m not there yet.

“Does it feel good when I go out there and the people are hoping crazy and they’re reacting, and they’re chanting, Eddie’? Yeah. But it would also feel good if they were booing. The reaction, that’s what I live for. That’s what drives me a lot of times in the ring. And I don’t care if the fans love me, I don’t care if the fans hate me. As long as they’re watching pro wrestling and as long as they’re reacting to what’s going on, I’m good. I’m good because my job as a pro wrestler is to go in the ring and fight. I can’t worry about what the people are doing. I would worry if there was no reaction. I would go, ‘Well, I’m screwed.’

Kingston elaborated by stating that his mission is to make people feel something and understand him when he’s performing. He also described how being in the ring helps him feel free, as it wipes away the stresses of the real world.

“And that’s why I always feel like when I go to a new building or a new city, no matter how many times I’ve been there, in my head, I’m like, ‘Okay, I gotta give these people something to react on. I gotta give these people an emotional ride. I gotta get these people to feel me, to understand me, to understand why I’m angry, why I’m this way.’ All this stuff goes through my head and then when the red light goes on, it’s blank. I tell a lot of people the most free I feel is in the pro wrestling ring. It’s in the ring.

“There’s a feeling of just, it’s euphoric almost. It’s almost out of body, almost, when I’m in there fighting or wrestling in the ring, it’s because I’m free. All the stresses of regular life are gone. It doesn’t matter what happened before that moment. And then once I walk lit that curtain, it’s all gone and I’m free. I almost feel like I’m floating getting into that ring.”

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