Eddie Kingston: Partnership with Jon Moxley was planned from the start

There are plenty of great reasons to tune into AEW: Dynamite and the team of Eddie Kingston and Jon Moxley are near the top of that list.

Since the two friends-turned-foes-turned-friends joined forces following last February’s Revolution pay-per-view, Kingston and Moxley have shined on AEW’s weekly shows thanks to their obvious chemistry as an in-ring duo and their entertaining banter during their promo segments.

As AEW fans have come to expect, plans to pair these two up were in the works for quite some time.

Eddie Kingston says teaming up with Jon Moxley was the plan from the beginning.

Appearing on Ad Free Shows as part of a Q & A session, Kingston discussed how this partnership with Moxley came to be (h/t to Fightful’s Jeremy Lambert for the transcription):

"“Me and Mox talked about this as soon as I got there. I owe a lot of my AEW career to Mox because he believed in me and he’s always believed in me. I was always that guy who is like, ‘Ahhh, get out of here.’ Mox always believed in me and saw the match with Cody. Even before the match with Cody, he was trying to amp me up. This was the whole plan from, maybe not the get-go because plans change, but I owe Mox a lot. The stuff with me and Mox is on the fly because that’s how we are normally. We argue all the time.”"

Kingston and Moxley’s on-screen interactions in AEW were adversarial at the start. The two feuded over the AEW World Championship toward the end of 2020, a storyline that centered around Kingston believing that Moxley “sold out” when he went to WWE. They traded words in a number of memorable promos for weeks before facing each other for the title in a classic “I Quit” Match at Full Gear 2020, with Moxley winning to conclude a program that earned “Feud of the Year” honors from The Wrestling Observer Newsletter.

After Kingston attempted to save Moxley from what he thought would be a massive explosion following Moxley’s Exploding Barbed Wire Deathmatch against Kenny Omega at Revolution, the two became a semi-regular tag team that has primarily battled Omega, The Good Brothers, and The Young Bucks.

Kingston and Moxley will have a chance to become the AEW World Tag Team Champions when they face the Bucks at Double or Nothing.