WWE Tried To Sign Current AEW Star After His AEW Debut

They say that anything can happen in the world of professional wrestling, and while Cody Rhodes was holding his open challenge for the TNT Championship some interesting names stepped up to face him.

One of those names was Eddie Kingston, and shortly after his AEW debut back in July it was announced that he had signed with All Elite Wrestling.

Kingston talked about how his signing came together on Talk Is Jericho, and he noted that after he made his AEW debut in the open challenge he received a call from WWE. Eddie Kingston noted that he told AEW about the call, and that’s when the company offered him a contract.

“I get a call from the competition. To be honest, to them, they were trying to get me to coach for years. But my thing was, and I told them, I can’t collect a paycheck if I didn’t earn it. And they were like, ‘What do you mean?’ And my thing was I was gonna go in there, coach, be bitter and angry about coaching, not getting a shot and these guys who don’t, they love wrestling now because they’re at the Performance Center, no offense to them, but when you’re on the road getting paid hot dogs and soda, but I would have been so bitter and angry, I wouldn’t have done a good job and I would have been detrimental to those kids so I was like, nah I’m good.”

“So anyway, now they were talking about other things besides coaching and, yeah, I had to weigh my options. And I came here and I told a couple people, ‘Hey look, the competition hit me up, just letting you know. I’m not begging for a job, just letting you know. It’s very hard for me to play this supposed wrestling game…. Yeah, man I just said that to them. Next thing you know, Christopher Daniels just goes, ‘Hey here’s a contract.”

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