Jim Cornette Compares Eddie Kingston To Stone Cold Steve Austin

Jim Cornette Compares Eddie Kingston To Stone Cold Steve Austin

Jim Cornette has reacted to Eddie Kingston’s Players’ Tribune article, comparing the support for Kingston to that of Stone Cold Steve Austin.

Kingston has grown more and more popular ever since he joined AEW last year, but things have really started ramping up recently, and his Players’ Tribune article, as well as the promo with CM Punk last week, have played a big part in that.

Speaking on his latest Drive Thru podcast after reading Kingston’s article, Jim Cornette said:

“Yes I did (read it), and it was f**king amazing. And, I think this is kind of – I don’t want to… some people are gonna just, their heads are gonna explode and they’re not gonna listen to the rest of it, so with that as a warning – it’s a little (Steve) Austin-ish.

“It’s Austin-ish in the respect that it’s a sudden groundswell of support and liking, fondness, admiration of, or identification with, or whatever positive social interaction phrase you may wanna use, for a guy, kind of organically, and several things happening right at the same time to make it even more pronounced.

“Now, for the people who are gonna s**t on that, no I’m not saying that it’s Austin-level in terms of the business response or what it’s gonna do for Eddie, because there were what eight or nine or 10 times more people watching wrestling shows back then as there are now, so it was obviously easier to multiply the response and the tickets and the pay-per-views, whatever.

“But it’s Austin-ish in terms of, it wasn’t really planned this way, and it just started happening naturally, and as I said several things happened the right way.”

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The segment on AEW Rampage last week with Kingston and Punk received a lot of praise, largely because it felt real, and that’s probably because there was a lot of truth to it, as one wrestler has vouched for.

CM Punk and Kingston are set for a match at Full Gear tomorrow night (November 13), and although the build was short, that one segment instantly made it probably the second-most anticipated match on the card behind Kenny Omega vs Adam Page.

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2 years ago by Liam Winnard

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