During an interview with SHAK Wrestling, Eddie Kingston spoke about the public outpouring for Jon Moxley during his current struggles and had high praise.
āIt was great. I was going to rally with him anyway. I guess you could say Iām an old-school street guy,ā Kingston said. āMy thing was, āI donāt care if anyone else understands. I get it. Your wife gets it, I get it. Thatās all that matters.ā It does feel nice that everybody else got it. My girlfriend said this to me the other day. Sheās the smart one. Toxic masculinity. I never heard of that before. She seems to think thatās dying because weāre actually celebrating men like Moxley who can accept their flaws but also work on them.
āBack 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 donāt 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.
āI usually like to tell people that we create our own normal. If you sit there and say what youāre going through is not normal, thatās bullshit. What youāre going through is what youāre going through. Thatās your normal. We make our own. This whole, āDonāt talk about things. I gotta be manly.ā I think Iām pretty manly, but I talk about what I go through because Iām trying to see tomorrow. Iām trying to make my mother proud. Iām trying to make my girl proud. Iām trying to make Tony Khan proud. Iām trying to make my boy Monkey [AEW wrestler Ortiz] proud. Homicide. There are so many people that Iām trying to make proud that I have to move on.
āThe best way to move on is to talk about whatās going on. And to make my own normal because no one is going through what Iām going through. Iām the one going through it so itās my normal. Not that Iām broken, Iām just going to move on from it and move forward because thatās 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. Iām not the most mentally put-together person but Iām moving forward, Iām trying. So why canāt anybody else?ā
Kingston spoke about family support systems.
āMy mom and dad are just happy that Iām doing something thatās not illegal. My brother is just happy I found something that Iām passionate about,ā Kingston said. āI didnāt 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, Iām working on that, but all that stuff ā theyāre just happy to see me doing something thatās positive. So of course theyāre going to back me up on that, no matter what.ā
Finally, Kingston spoke about reaching new milestones.
ā[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, thereās a plug, or on the AEW YouTube thereās 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. Thatās what Kenny [Omega] was. Thatās what Mox was. That was [Chris] Jericho was. And thatās what āHangmanā [Adam Page] is now. Thatās always the goal.ā
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