Eddie Kingston Names His Mount Rushmore Of Pro Wrestling

AEW’s Eddie Kingston has named the stars that’d feature on his Mount Rushmore of professional wrestling.

Speaking with NY News 12 Long Island, Kingston revealed that he believes that the Four Pillars of All-Japan Pro Wrestling belong on his wrestling-themed landmark, noting:

“I’m just going to go with my personal favorites. Not the people who drew the most money, not the people who made the most impact in the business, just my personal favorites. Honestly, it’s the Four Pillars of All Japan-Pro Wrestling. (Toshiaki) Kawada, (Akira) Taue, (Mitsuharu) Misawa and (Kenta) Kobashi. There you go, there’s my Mt. Rushmore right there. All Japan 90’s and some of them when they went to (Pro Wrestling NOAH). There’s your Mt. Rushmore for me personally, because they’re the guys I still watch to this day. I just watched Misawa and Taue from ’96 or ’95 the other day on the phone.

“No one wrestles like them. No one will ever wrestle like them. I love them to death. Kobashi is my personal favorite. Kawada, I feel like I’m a kindred spirit with Kawada. But no one wrestles like them, no one will ever be them. That’s the benchmark. I’m trying to be better than them, not to be like them because nobody could ever be like Kobashi, Kawada, Misawa, Taue ever again.

“I’m trying to be better than them. And look, I’ll probably never reach that. But if I get close, that means I’m doing pretty good. So that’s my Mt. Rushmore. Compare it to The Rock’s. I don’t care. Honestly, I don’t know The Rock, I don’t know The Undertaker, I don’t know Hulk Hogan, so I don’t care. So there you go. If I don’t know you, I don’t care.”

Kingston referenced The Rock’s shortlist of stars for his wrestling Mount Rushmore, which included Hulk Hogan, Steve Austin, Ric Flair, The Undertaker, Pat Patterson and Jackie Fargo.

The Undertaker has also revealed the names he’d feature, which you can read about at this link.

Quote via Wrestling Inc. 

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