In a recent interview with Steve Fall of WrestlingNews.co, All Elite Wrestling’s Eddie Kingston discussed several topics, including being signed by the company, calling out Cody Rhodes at an independent wrestling event and more.

“At the time, I was working, it was the first independent show since COVID, I went in there and Homicide, my mentor was there, and he’s like hey man, you’ve got to do something tonight, this is our first independent show back, you have to do something, you have to say something today, and I was like, alright man, I’ll do it.

The promoter didn’t know, so I just grabbed the microphone and I called out Zack Sabre Jr., because we were supposed to wrestle in England before the pandemic hit, and he’s been ducking me for years, and then I called out Nick Aldis, because at the time I was working for the NWA and he was the NWA World Champ.

In my mind then I went you know what, why not, hey Cody Rhodes, you’ve got this open challenge, blah blah blah, I talked all this trash and Id didn’t think nothing of it, and then I guess it got over on Twitter and I get a phone call from QT Marshall and he’s like, hey you want to fight Cody and I said yeah, how much, because at that time, I was selling my wrestling gear to pay for my mortgage, because there were no shows running, so I was like yeah.

I didn’t look at it as a tryout, I didn’t look at it as my way in, I just looked at it as another payday so I can pay off the mortgage for that month, and then I’ll figure out what I can do next month, that’s the way I looked at it.”

The full interview is available at this link.