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Eddie Kingston Talks Mental Health, Jon Moxley & His Career

Posted By: Joe West on Dec 02, 2021

Eddie Kingston Talks Mental Health, Jon Moxley & His Career

During an interview with SHAK Wrestling, Eddie Kingston spoke about the public outpouring for Jon Moxley during his current struggles and had high praise.

ā€œIt was great. I was going to rally with him anyway. I guess you could say Iā€™m an old-school street guy,ā€ Kingston said. ā€œMy thing was, ā€˜I donā€™t care if anyone else understands. I get it. Your wife gets it, I get it. Thatā€™s all that matters.ā€™ It does feel nice that everybody else got it. My girlfriend said this to me the other day. Sheā€™s the smart one. Toxic masculinity. I never heard of that before. She seems to think thatā€™s dying because weā€™re actually celebrating men like Moxley who can accept their flaws but also work on them.

ā€œBack in the day, we used to accept the flaws and move on and not work on them. Now that we accept who we are, we work on them. She says I do the same thing. I donā€™t know what that means. I still like watching football and eating steak and having a beer here or there.ā€

Kingston offered advice to "tough guys" who don't seek help for their mental health problems.

ā€œI usually like to tell people that we create our own normal. If you sit there and say what youā€™re going through is not normal, thatā€™s bullshit. What youā€™re going through is what youā€™re going through. Thatā€™s your normal. We make our own. This whole, ā€˜Donā€™t talk about things. I gotta be manly.ā€™ I think Iā€™m pretty manly, but I talk about what I go through because Iā€™m trying to see tomorrow. Iā€™m trying to make my mother proud. Iā€™m trying to make my girl proud. Iā€™m trying to make Tony Khan proud. Iā€™m trying to make my boy Monkey [AEW wrestler Ortiz] proud. Homicide. There are so many people that Iā€™m trying to make proud that I have to move on.

ā€œThe best way to move on is to talk about whatā€™s going on. And to make my own normal because no one is going through what Iā€™m going through. Iā€™m the one going through it so itā€™s my normal. Not that Iā€™m broken, Iā€™m just going to move on from it and move forward because thatā€™s all I can do is move forward. Do I feel a little bit of pressure since that Playersā€™ Tribune? Yeah, but I also kind of like it too because, look, I can move on, I can do it. Iā€™m not the most mentally put-together person but Iā€™m moving forward, Iā€™m trying. So why canā€™t anybody else?ā€

Kingston spoke about family support systems.

ā€œMy mom and dad are just happy that Iā€™m doing something thatā€™s not illegal. My brother is just happy I found something that Iā€™m passionate about,ā€ Kingston said. ā€œI didnā€™t see the future. They did. They saw a future for me in anything I wanted to do. But because of my low self-esteem and how I beat myself down mentally in the past ā€” which I still kind of do, Iā€™m working on that, but all that stuff ā€” theyā€™re just happy to see me doing something thatā€™s positive. So of course theyā€™re going to back me up on that, no matter what.ā€

Finally, Kingston spoke about reaching new milestones.

ā€œ[The goal] to be the top guy in AEW. I reached one goal. I made it to AEW, contracted, make it a living. My nephew can show people on the TNT app, thereā€™s a plug, or on the AEW YouTube thereā€™s another plug, he gets to show off that his uncle is a wrestler. I reached one goal. The next goal is to be the top guy. To be the champion. To be the guy on the posters. The guy that is AEW. Thatā€™s what Kenny [Omega] was. Thatā€™s what Mox was. That was [Chris] Jericho was. And thatā€™s what ā€˜Hangmanā€™ [Adam Page] is now. Thatā€™s always the goal.ā€

Source: wrestlingnews.co
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