{"id":73666,"date":"2020-07-31T14:22:35","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T18:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/?p=73666"},"modified":"2020-07-31T14:22:35","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T18:22:35","slug":"aew-sign-eddie-kingston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2020\/07\/31\/aew-sign-eddie-kingston\/","title":{"rendered":"Official: AEW Signs &#8220;Mad King&#8221; Eddie Kingston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Eddie Kingston<\/strong> made his <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2020\/07\/22\/eddie-kingston-answers-codys-tnt-open-challenge-on-aew-dynamite\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AEW debut<\/a> answering\u00a0<strong>Cody&#8217;s\u00a0<\/strong>TNT Championship Open Challenge recently.\u00a0 Kingston&#8217;s appearance was highly praised by viewers and #SignEddieKingston became a call by fans for AEW to sign the indie veteran.\u00a0 AEW has now made it official that &#8220;Mad King&#8221; Eddie Kingston is all elite.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/MadKing1981\/status\/1289259902838349824<\/p>\n<p>Kingston is an eighteen-year veteran in wrestling and has been around the block in many of the top indie promotions in the world.\u00a0 He was the first-ever <strong>CHIKARA\u00a0<\/strong>Grand Champion after winning one of the most emotional matches in that companies history.\u00a0 When not tugging at heartstrings Kingston can be one of the baddest men in the business as shown by his work with <strong>LAX\u00a0<\/strong>in\u00a0<strong>IMPACT Wrestling.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Eddie Kingston&#039;s Road to High Noon on 11.13.11\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c1AGjIQKxNE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Kingston showcased his promo abilities in his AEW debut and it has long been known that Kingston is one of the best promos in professional wrestling today, he brings a ruggedness and realness that no other performer can match. To go with that he has a brawl heavy style, also evidenced by his match with Cody as the two fought in a no DQ match.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"AEW Social Exclusive - Eddie Kingston following theTNT Title Open Challenge | AEW Dynamite 7\/22\/20\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GpDwl9QehgU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In Eddie Kingston AEW has picked up one of the indie scenes most overlooked talents.\u00a0 Be it face or heel Kingston has the abilities to be a top player in any pro wrestling company and in AEW he will finally get to showcase his talent to the world.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a> for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world. You can catch AEW Wednesday nights at 8 PM ET on TNT and AEW DARK weekly on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCFN4JkGP_bVhAdBsoV9xftA\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eddie Kingston made his AEW debut answering\u00a0Cody&#8217;s\u00a0TNT Championship Open Challenge recently.\u00a0 Kingston&#8217;s appearance was highly praised by viewers and #SignEddieKingston became a call by fans for AEW to sign the indie veteran.\u00a0 AEW has now made it official that &#8220;Mad King&#8221; Eddie Kingston is all elite. https:\/\/twitter.com\/MadKing1981\/status\/1289259902838349824 Kingston is an eighteen-year veteran in wrestling and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":73670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4677,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aew","category-north-america"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}