Eddie Kingston Acknowledges Past Steroid Use, Talks GFW Status

Eddie Kingston appeared on Colt Cabana’s Art of Wrestling Podcast for a new interview and discussed his past steroid use, his GFW status and more. Highlights are below:

On dropping sixty pounds due to not taking steroids anymore: “234 [lbs.]. Yeah, bro. You remember me at 290. Yeah, back in the day. Go to Japan, and before you go to Japan, get on the gas, and lose the weight. Like we don’t know this, that guys [take performance enhancing drugs]? That’s what it is, Subway sandwiches? That’s what we’re going to call the gas on that one, Subway sandwiches?” Kingston recalled, “every time I stuck the needle in my ass and did it, I just said, ‘I got to go to the gym. Otherwise, it’s a waste of money.’ This was what, like 2011? And I was like, ‘I don’t want to embarrass myself in Japan,’ so I just did it and that was it.”

On having a “roid rage” incident: “That was the only time I did it, was right before I went. The last day I was on it, I got into an actual fight with my cousin. No, no, I guess you could call it ‘roid rage,’ I don’t know, but I’m an angry person anyways, but it was heightened and I was outside my cousin’s house with a baseball bat and breaking in his car windows. And I was like, ‘ahhh!’ I did it anyway and I was like, ‘maybe I shouldn’t do this again.'”

On admitting to his steroid use: “I have no problem with being honest about it because there’s no Wellness Policy on the indies. And I did it once, 2011, and whatever, big deal. But you can see guys nowadays and be like, ‘oh yeah, that guy’s on something.'”

On his GFW status: “It definitely is nice [to be on TV]. I’m still under contract there and [I] did an angle… I’m off TV right now. I don’t know what’s going on for the next one, but still under contract. And it is validating even having the WWE tryout because even doing the tryout, I was like, ‘oh wow – wow, okay, I’m here. I guess I did do something right or knew someone right to get me in there.’ And [Cabana] know[s] this, the only thing I can say about TV wrestling and independent wrestling, it’s just a totally different world. And I’m not saying I like it. I’m not saying I don’t like it. It’s just something so different than independent wrestling.”

On being in a big company: “I felt unprepared for the behind-the-scenes stuff, the backstage stuff. [Cabana] know[s] what I’m talking about right off the bat. All the other stuff, the in-the-ring stuff is definitely different than the independents and that’s fine because that’s what I grew up on. We all grew up on TV wrestling. We didn’t grow up right away on independent wrestling, so the in-the-ring stuff was pretty easy to get used to. It’s just all the other stuff, but that’s part of the business. It’s not like I’m breaking some big news.”