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AEW’s Eddie Kingston Seeks Career-Defining Moment vs. Jon Moxley at ‘Full Gear’

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Eddie Kingston: ‘Maybe, on paper, it doesn’t look like I belong in this match. I’ve been betting on myself my whole life. I know I belong.’

Eddie Kingston celebrated the Fourth of July in a backyard show for ICW: No Holds Barred at the “Deathmatch Drive In.”

Four months later, he will wrestle Jon Moxley at Saturday’s Full Gear pay-per-view in a match for the AEW championship.

When finding a home with AEW seemed like a remote possibility, Kingston stood in the ring on the Fourth and cut an expletive-filled promo, filled with enough fury and wrath to awake the spirit of Thomas Paine.