Eddie Kingston has found better ways to express his thoughts and opinions in recent years.
All Elite Wrestling‘s Eddie Kingston was a recent guest on Wilde On. When asked about finding a balance between professional wrestling and real life, Kingston said —
“Yeah, I feel like you can’t be in the bubble of either,” Eddie Kingston said. “I mean, yeah, you got to experience both. You can be in the wrestling bubble where it’s just wrestling, or you can be just, you know, I don’t want to say real life but the work bubble. And then you don’t know anything else. I believe, just like you said, you have to do uncomfortable things to grow.
“And doing a regular job is very uncomfortable. Doing pro wrestling is very uncomfortable as well. So I believe you need both sides and not that I judge people who don’t, I just look at people and I go, ah okay, you don’t know. Like, I get it. I mean, you’re young. You got this opportunity early. I get it.
“I mean, honestly, if I was 20-something, and I had a contract to AEW, the people who knew me when I was younger, I would be out of my mind. I’d probably be fired three days in. I’d be out of my mind. I was still bringing in the street to my attitude instead of being professional; you know what I mean?”
Less screaming, more talking
When asked how he separates the two, Kingston said it comes down to maturity and realizing that he has more to lose now.
“You grow, and now because of being part of a big company like AEW, I have a lot more to lose than I did before,” Eddie Kingston said. “And I’m also older now, so it’s not like I’m a spring chicken that can just go okay, F this place I’m done and go somewhere else and still have a couple of years on me. Now, it’s not that.
“Now I got to be professional, and I got to sit back, and I got to learn what hills to die on. And I used to die on every hill. Even if it had nothing to do with me, I would charge up and be there. Because I felt like something wasn’t right. I’m trying to learn. It’s taking me a while; I’m trying to learn to say things with my volume down.
“Because a lot of times what I’ve noticed and a lot of people I actually respect in wrestling have told me, Eddie, you’re right with what you’re saying, but we can’t hear it over your screaming. And I’m like, oh yeah, I just get amped up and passionate about what I’m feeling, or if I feel like something’s not right, you’re gonna know it. But I gotta learn how to communicate it better is the best way. So the people hear my words and not just the volume of my voice.”
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