Eddie Kingston gives update on physical and mental health

Eddie Kingston is doing ok in his recovery from injury, but not being able to wrestle has been difficult for his mental health.

A torn ACL and broken tibia have kept Kingston out of action since May 2024, when he suffered the injury during a match against Gabe Kidd at an NJPW event in California. While speaking with Wrestling With The Narrative for a new interview, Kingston gave an update on how he’s feeling. It’s not been an easy process either physically or mentally, but he’s working to get better every day.

“Physically, I feel like sh*t. Mentally, I feel like sh*t,” Kingston said. “So every day I’m just working on getting better, you know what I’m saying? Physical therapy — it’s been tough just to get to physical therapy because of my insurance. I just got new insurance. And then right when I was ready to start my new PT place, I started getting stomach issues. And I had to wait a long time — they had to do a thing where they put a camera down my throat. It was like, everything’s happening — well, good that it’s happening now when I’m off, but, you know, I was in a lot of pain. Thank god, as of right now, it was nothing serious, because I’m still waiting for results. But from the initial thing, he was like, ‘Look, no cancer. No ulcer. No nothing.’ Him and my primary doctor were just like, ‘So how stressed are you?’ I said, ‘Ohhhh, really, how long do you have? Do we need a therapist to come in here at least and talk?’ So they’re trying to get me to like not stress out, calm down.”

Being in the ring is what brings Kingston the most happiness in life, so not having that has been tough. Kingston said he feels euphoric when in the ring, and it’s the one place where he feels free. But he is doing ok and has good friends and family around him.

“Not having that’s really messed with my head. Thank god I have a good lady and I got good friends around me, you know what I mean? I’m not going to mention who because some work at other companies [laughs]. And I don’t want to ruin their stuff. But I have good people around me, I really do,” Kingston said. “It just takes me a while to open up about it. As you can see, no hair cut, no shave. Going through my [Bruiser] Brody era. Homicide and my mother — even my mom said I look like Brody. She goes, ‘You look like that crazy guy you used to always watch.’

“Yeah, I’m doing ok [laughs]. That was long just to say: I’m doing ok. I’m doing ok, man.”

Kingston believes everything happens for a reason, even if it might take a while for him to find out what the reason is. He hasn’t been watching much current AEW or NJPW because he knows doing so while out of action would only piss him off, but Kingston said he has been keeping up with Konosuke Takeshita’s matches. Kingston has his eyes on Takeshita’s AEW International Championship, then would like to go after the TNT Championship and AEW World Championship down the road.

Takeshita posted a tweet responding to Kingston’s comments about him: “I appreciate that but you know we have unfinished business. You haven’t forgotten our dream of 1on1 in Budokan. Make sure you come back.”

Wrestling With The Narrative’s full conversation with Kingston can be watched below: