Eddie Kingston Cancels All Upcoming Independent Wrestling Bookings

ByLuis Perez

Sep 23, 2023 #defy wrestling, #Eddie Kingston

Eddie Kingston has announced that he will no longer be working Independent wrestling dates for the time being.

The NJPW Strong Openweight Champion and newly crown ROH Champion released a statement on Instagram with the caption reading, “I love the Independents but times have changed. I am truly sorry for not being able to do them right now. But I am truly no bullshit trying to be the best Champion for both NJPW strong and ROH and must put that above anything else right now. This sucks.”

The statement reads:

“Due to being NJPW Strong Openweight and ROH Champion I have to come to the hard decision that I will have to stop doing Independents. Dealing with a lower back injury right now that I need to get fixed (and will) so I can be ready for all NJPW strong shows and all three AEW shows. When my responsibilities as NJPW and ROH champion is over I will hopefully be able to do Independents again. I apologize to all but I just need to focus and my body needs to be ready for those shows.”

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This effects tonight’s DEFY Wrestling event where Kingston was scheduled to defend the NJPW Strong Openweight Championship against Rocky Romero. DEFY took to Twitter to comment on the situation stating “We just found out like you all did.”

Changes to tonight’s “Last King” event from Seattle, Washington have yet to be announced.

Yep. Eddie is out. He will not be defending his NJPW Strong Openweight Championship tonight. He’s won’t be at Washington Hall.

We just found out like you all did. We’ll figure something out like we always do but we are so sorry that this happened again. Apologies to Rocky, and… pic.twitter.com/FBmQhNwFEv

— DEFY Wrestling (@defyNW) September 23, 2023

This will also effect Warrior Wrestling’s return event on October 6th, as Eddie Kingston was scheduled to take on “The Bounty Hunter” Bryan Keith in the main event of Warrior Wrestling 31. No replacement has been named as of yet.