Injured AEW opens about his Forbidden Door PPV status.
Over a year ago, in 2024, former AEW Continental Champion Eddie Kingston broke his leg in NJPW while fighting Gabe Kidd. On a hiatus since then, Kingston is currently recovering from his injury and preparing for his in-ring return.
Still not completely cleared for a comeback, he recently opened up about his possible Forbidden Door appearance while documenting his comeback journey on Cezar Bononi’s YouTube channel.
Expressing his disappointment, the 43-year-old said,
“I am disappointed that it looks like, I’m just saying it now, it looks like I’m not going to be able to do Forbidden Door again. My thing is, everybody else has their favorites, and my favorite was always Forbidden Door. It’s shit I like to do. That’s the shit I like.
For me, Forbidden Door will always be the big one. The Japanese dudes are my dudes. I wanted to fight Shingo (Takagi), Yuya (Uemura), Shota (Umino), Taichi. There are so many. Missing it, as of right now, missing it two years in a row sucks. Hopefully, this comes out and I’m wrong and I’m actually at Forbidden Door.”
H/t Fightful
Absent for more than a year, Kingston has also undergone surgery for a torn meniscus and ACL, and is gearing up for an impactful return.
We at ITR Wrestling wish Eddie Kingston a strong and steady recovery.
Eddie Kingston Considering Retirement Amid AEW Absence
“I’m watching AEW and I’m seeing all this great sh*t that these guys are doing in the ring. And then, like an emotional b*tch—sometimes it happens—I tweet out, like, ‘What the f*ck am I gonna do when I come back?’ Because I’m thinking to myself, ‘How am I gonna fight these dudes’—people can say whatever they want about wrestling—but my mental is, ‘How am I gonna fight these dudes when they’re this good and I wasn’t even that good to begin with?’ That’s why that thing came out about me thinking about retirement. I don’t want to f*cking retire.
I don’t. But during that four or five months of doing PT once in a while—‘cause my insurance are not doing it at all for weeks—I just sat in my own sh*t thinking like, ‘Yeah, man, f*ck. Well, I had fun. I did the G1. But I wanted to do more, but ah, f*ck it.’ So I’m making excuses for why it’s okay to quit.”
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