Ladies and gentlemen, hold onto your wrestling belts because the news about Eddie Kingston is a real body slam! The former AEW Continental Champion is down for the count with a knee injury that’s more complicated than a soap opera love triangle.
Kingston, always the king of drama, managed to tear his ACL, meniscus, and fracture his tibia during a no-ropes, last-man-standing match against Gabe Kidd at NJPW’s Resurgence event. The man went all out and left it all in the ring – unfortunately, including his knee.
Kingston has bravely announced that surgery will wait until July because his tibia needs to heal first. Think of it like a season finale cliffhanger: you know it’s coming, but you have to wait! Dave Meltzer, our wrestling oracle, confirmed that the surgery is penciled in for July 8. The comeback date? Sometime between March and May 2025. Forget the “Road to WrestleMania,” we’re on the “Side Street to March-May 2025!”
“The Mad King” originally hoped to make a royal appearance at AEW’s second London extravaganza, All In 2024, on August 25. But unless he plans to give a regal wave from the sidelines, that idea is as far-fetched as a peaceful contract signing segment.
Before this unfortunate intermission, Kingston was riding a wave of success bigger than a WrestleMania main event. He snagged the NJPW STRONG Openweight Championship, dethroned Claudio Castagnoli for the ROH World Championship, and clinched the first-ever AEW Continental Championship. His reign of terror included victories over Kazuchika Okada, Mark Briscoe, and Gabe Kidd, forming the western Triple Crown Championship. But as the wrestling gods giveth, they taketh away – Kingston lost his three titles faster than you can say “heel turn.”