Former AEW Continental Champion Eddie Kingston is a veteran of the business, having made his debut with Chikara back in 2002. The star worked for a wide range of promotions, including Westside Xtreme Wrestling, Combat Zone Wrestling, ROH, TNA, and the NWA, before he debuted for AEW in July 2020. While he could also be a grizzled vet in the case of the skilled wrestling game, he told PWInsider Elite that he is not one to provide loads of backstage advice to the younger guys.
“It isn’t, ‘No. I don’t desire to assist other guys,'” Kingston explained. “I’m not that a******, but I’m the a****** that goes, ‘They’ve come to me.’ Because I’ve gone out of my way, it is not like I just made this up, like, I’ve gotten burnt before. It isn’t like I’m just making this up and being a d*** or an old, bitter guy… No, it’s I got burnt before by going out of my way and helping people, so now, you could have to come back to me.”
Kingston said that even in the case of working with younger guys, he is not good at having someone without as much experience as him tell him what’s right and fallacious, then having to work through that. He said that when a veteran like Jerry Lynn or Christopher Daniels tells him something, even when he doesn’t agree, he “shuts up” and takes it in anyway.
“That is what I used to be taught,” he said. “I just see sometimes other individuals with other agents, they weren’t taught that very same respect, I suppose you can say, and I do not know if I could handle [being a coach], to be honest with you, without getting fired my first day.”
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