I can’t explain it (but I’ll try, after all that’s kinda what I do here), but Eddie Kingston seems lost. Maybe he’s just waiting for Continental Classic season, so he can show what he can do, but it feels like the former AEW Triple Crown Champion is completely unmotivated. His promos have no fire, and he’s just kinda hanging around Hook.

It feels like every year could be “Eddie Kingston’s Year,” except for this one. He’s a natural babyface, Dusty Rhodes from Yonkers, and yet AEW seems unable to find a way to truly capitalize on this longtime fan favorite.

Again, his return from injury is still new. He might be healing. He might just be hanging out. It doesn’t change the fact that Kingston seems rudderless at the moment, and AEW can either make that text, and give him a story about being a tumbleweed in the wind or they can give him something to do. It also doesn’t quite help Hook to have a monument to squandered potential cheering him on, so it might be in Hook’s best interests for AEW to give Kingston something to do, too, lest he and Hook begin to feel like that episode of “South Park” where Stan Marsh hangs out with a drifter pretending to be his future self. So, unless Kingston is acting as some kind of grand ruse to get Hook to stay away from drugs, he should probably get something to do, quick.