While Eddie Kingston has claimed that HOOK kept in touch with him throughout his recovery while away from AEW, coming back to the ring was still a difficult task. Further expanding on why it was a “shock” to get back into the grove of competing every week and being on the road, the “Mad King” explained that it had nothing to do with the physicality of pro wrestling.

“The physical stuff wasn’t it,” Kingston said. “It’s the travel, it’s the chaos of live TV,. … It was being live on pay-per-view, live on TV the next night – or the next show.” Despite this, Kingston claims he used to thrive in the chaos and that it was all about slowly getting back into the motion.

Regardless of everything, it seems like Kingston is slowly getting back to full capacity. However, when recalling how bad his injury was during an interview with Renee Paquette, he described it as a new kind of pain. Kingston asserted that he’s used to the pain of broken limbs, but having his tibia broken was worse than he realized. Still, he’s working hard to continue improving his physical conditioning.

“I’m gonna try to get back to Muay Thai training,” he continued. “I always say this, but now since the knee’s feeling a lot better, soon, [I should] try to get back there.”

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