Speaking on the Swerve City Podcast, AEW star Eddie Kingston talked about how he thinks he would’ve been unhappy in WWE if he ever decided to sign with them.
“I didn’t want to collect a paycheck. Yeah, I mean, because I knew if I was there and I had that resentment of I know,’ I have 10 more good years. I know I’m better than what they’re not giving me a chance,’ they will bring in whatever and I’m not knocking these guys. If a football player or amateur wrestler walks in, and the machine is behind them all the way and they want me to help him and teach him I’m not going to but if I do, if I do, I’m going to be a piece of shit. Because I’m gonna be resentful of him. Yeah, so I’m gonna teach him the right ways but he may not get it right away because I’m gonna be a piece of shit.”
Kingston also talked about how his mother further pushed him to join AEW.
“I entertained other possibilities. I entertained them. But again, Mama’s boy, my mother being my best friend when I told her, ‘Hey mom, I’m getting interested from a lot of people all of a sudden she goes, go to AEW, you won’t be happy at WWE That’s what she said. I asked her why and I’m gonna keep that between me and my mother. I went Nah, ma, you’re right. she goes, ‘Yeah, go there, Papi. Go there, have fun,’ she said. ‘You deserve to have fun,’ and that was it.”
H/T to Fightful for the transcript
