Eddie Kingston Doesn’t Like The Term Promo, He Prefers ‘Therapy’

Eddie Kingston takes aim at another insider term.

Eddie Kingston is unabashedly real in a professional wrestling world that has become more and more accepting of its predetermined nature. With terms like “babyface,” heel,” and “promo,” becoming more part of regular on-screen vernacular, Eddie Kingston has openly criticized this, staying on the most recent episode of AEW Rampage, just because kayfabe is dead, it doesn’t mean wrestlers have to piss on its grave.

Now, in a new interview with Web is Jericho, Eddie Kingston explains why he doesn’t like the term promo. For him, it is not a “promo,” it is therapy.

“It’s not my promo, it’s my therapy,” he said. “I take everything that’s bothering me throughout the week or year or month or whatever it is, and I’ll just let it all out. That’s my thing. What went through my head with Cody was, ‘I’m gonna introduce myself to the people.’”

“I had no idea, to be honest with you,” Kingston said of how being himself has gotten over with fans. “I’m just me. They can say whatever — your character, or since everybody wants to do insider terms, your gimmick — it’s not a gimmick. This is me. That’s it… Eddie Kingston is me at 17 years old with no consequences just turned up to 11 or 1,000 or whatever you want to call it.”

Eddie Kingston will go one-on-one with Chris Jericho at AEW Revolution 2022. this will be Kingston’s latest attempt at his first singles pay-per-view victory. You can check out the full card at this link.

Fightful will have live coverage of the event on Sunday, March 6, 2022. We will also have a review podcast on our YouTube Channel as well as full coverage of all post-show media scrums