Eddie Kingston isn’t walking anything back when it comes to CM Punk — in fact, he’s doubling down hard.
After previously admitting he enjoyed punching CM Punk during their 2021 AEW feud, Eddie Kingston went even further during Squared Circle Expo VI, giving a detailed — and brutally honest — breakdown of what working with Punk was actually like behind the scenes.
Kingston started by addressing a common assumption — that the two sat down, planned things out, and worked professionally to build their match. According to him, that didn’t happen at all.
“People ask me this and they’re like, ‘Oh, what did you guys talk about—the match, this and that?’ Listen, I didn’t say a word to him.”
He made it clear there was no collaboration, no creative discussion — just raw tension that carried straight into the ring. From there, Kingston laid out exactly where things stand between them personally — and made it clear nothing has changed.
“We went in there and we fought. That’s it. Phil don’t like me. I don’t like Phil. That’s it. And that’s the way it’s going to be.”
He also made it clear that while he’s not going out of his way to publicly bury Punk, there’s no interest in fixing anything either.
“And my thing is this—I’m not talking s*** about him. It’s just the way it is. We don’t like each other.”
Kingston then took it a step further, suggesting that if they were ever in the same place again, it wouldn’t stay calm for long, claiming cops would need to be involved.
“If we’re in the same company together, we’re probably going to run into each other or whatever. You’ve got to put cops in front of us. That’s it.”
And in one of the more intense moments of the interview, Kingston openly talked about how much he enjoyed seeing Punk bleed during that fight — and what he said to him in that moment.
“Whatever—I fought him, it wasn’t even a match. He did bleed, bro. I enjoyed the f*** out of that when he started bleeding. I told him—I whispered in his ear—I said, ‘Let me taste—if you let me taste if there’s any p***y in your f****** blood.’ That shows you how much I like him.”
Kingston isn’t trying to protect the image of that feud or soften how it came across. If anything, he’s reinforcing that what fans saw wasn’t just good storytelling — it was rooted in something real.
In the end, years later, nothing about Eddie Kingston’s stance has changed. The feud with CM Punk wasn’t just business to him, and based on how he’s still talking about it, it never will be.
Do you think Eddie Kingston and CM Punk’s rivalry worked because it felt real, or did it go too far? Let us know your thoughts.
