Eddie Kingston comments on missing AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door two years in a row

Eddie Kingston is set to miss his favorite PPV for the second straight year.

Kingston has been out of action since NJPW Resurgence on May 11, 2024, when he broke his leg and tore his meniscus and ACL in a match against Gabe Kidd. He missed last year’s Forbidden Door the following month and appears likely to miss this year’s event on August 24 as well.

He appeared as a guest on Cezar Bononi’s podcast recently and mentioned several NJPW wrestlers he would have liked to wrestle.

“I am disappointed that it looks like, I’m just saying it now, it looks like I’m not going to be able to do Forbidden Door again,” Kingston said on the show.

“Everybody else has their favorites, you know what I mean? And my favorite was always Forbidden Door.“

“The Japanese dudes are my dudes. I wanted to fight Shingo (Takagi) or Yuya (Uemura), which is one of the young lions they got there that’s coming up in the game.”

“I would love to fight Shota (Umino). There’s so many. Taichi. I would love to fight Taichi because he was trained by Kawada. Everyone knows my history with Toshiaki Kawada-san.”

“Hopefully, this comes out and I’m wrong and I’m actually at Forbidden Door fighting somebody.”

At the first Forbidden Door PPV in 2022, Kingston teamed with Wheeler Yuta and Shota Umino in a loss to Minoru Suzuki, Chris Jericho, and Sammy Guevara. In 2023, he teamed with Tomohiro Ishii, The Young Bucks, and Hangman Page in a win over the Blackpool Combat Club. He missed last year’s show after being injured at Resurgence the month prior.

Kingston’s full appearance on Cezar Bononi’s podcast is available below: