During his appearance on the most recent Wrestling With The Narrative podcast, AEW’s Eddie Kingston provided an update on his recovery.
Kingston said that not being able to compete in the ring has been difficult on his mental health.
Physically, I feel like s—. Mentally, I feel like s—…so every day I’m just working on getting better, you know what I’m saying? Physical therapy. It’s been tough just to get to physical therapy because of my insurance. I just got new insurance. And then right when I was ready to start my new PT place, I started getting stomach issues. And I had to wait a long time -they had to do a thing where they put a camera down my throat. It was like, everything’s happening – well, good that it’s happening now when I’m off, but, you know, I was in a lot of pain. Thank god, as of right now, it was nothing serious, because I’m still waiting for results. But from the initial thing, he was like, ‘Look, no cancer. No ulcer. No nothing.’ Him and my primary doctor were just like, ‘So how stressed are you?’ I said, ‘Ohhhh, really, how long do you have? Do we need a therapist to come in here at least and talk?’ So they’re trying to get me to like not stress out, calm down.”
Kingston also said that wrestling in the ring is was brings him the most happiness in his life. However, not being able to do that right bow has been tough. He added that he has good friends and family that support him.
“Not having that’s really messed with my head. Thank god I have a good lady and I got good friends around me, you know what I mean? I’m not going to mention who because some work at other companies [laughs]. And I don’t want to ruin their stuff. But I have good people around me, I really do,” Kingston said. “It just takes me a while to open up about it. As you can see, no hair cut, no shave. Going through my [Bruiser] Brody era. Homicide and my mother — even my mom said I look like Brody. She goes, ‘You look like that crazy guy you used to always watch…“Yeah, I’m doing ok [laughs]. That was long just to say: I’m doing ok. I’m doing ok, man.”
Quote source: F4WOnline
“Legit” Leyla Hirsch not expected to re-sign with AEW/ROH
According to reports by PWInsider and F4Online, the contract on “Legit” Leyla Hirsch will expire on Friday, February 28 and that she is not expected re-sign, thus making her a free agent. At the time of the reports, it is not known if the decision for her not to return was a mutual decision by AEW and Hirsch.
Hirsch made her debut with AEW in October 2020 and signed an official contract with the company in March 2021. She was out of action for most of 2022 after tearing her ACL in April of that year.
Per F4WOnline, Hirsch wrestled 56 times on AEW television, with last appearance on the June 2024 episode of Collision and 37 times in ROH, with her last appearance at the 2024 Final Battle PPV, where she lost to Red Velvet in a Women’s World TV Title Match.