In a recent interview with Joseph Staszewski of The New York Post prior to the recent AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door event, All Elite Wrestling star Eddie Kingston discussed his recent hernia surgery, recovery and more.

“I’ve been dealing with the injury since September, and I did the typical stupid wrestler thing, which is work through it and then, I couldn’t work through it anymore. I feel a thousand times better, they told me six weeks, so I took all six weeks, took advantage of it.

As I said on TV the other day, please forgive me for the way I look, I had been eating a lot of ice cream during my time off, I’ve just been able to get back to working out, I’m getting back to a better version of me.

The way I judge pain is if I can sleep. That last match I had with Claudio at Ring Of Honor, I was icing my groing area and I couldn’t sleep at all that night, and when I saw that, I knew something was wrong and I still tried to go to work that Wednesday, I got up that Tuesday to go to the airport and I’m out the door and I looked at my girlfriend and said, I can’t get on that plane, that’s how much pain I was in. I was like yeah, it’s time to go.”

The full interview is available at this link.