25 Worst Wrestling Moments Of 2025
24. Eddie Kingston's AEW Return
At AEW All Out 2025, Eddie Kingston returned to the ring after a whopping 17 months away (and even longer gone from All Elite Wrestling itself) in a bad match against Big Bill.
The build had already been pilloried for how frustratingly lowkey it all was, as if the company simply didn't want to understand how much the 'Mad King' meant to the fanbase, how much he was missed, and how valuable he was to a weekly world that was notably lacking several of its top stars. Within weeks of the whiffed uraken that scored him the pay-per-view victory, Kingston was buried in the mere of tag matches with Hook and an LFI feud leading to a payoff (?) match with Sammy Guevara.
What went wrong at such pace?
The race to put Hook under yet another wing was annoying, as was the choice to so quickly maroon Kingston on the B-Show without so much as one lengthy promo on Dynamite to illustrate just how back he was. Low on this list because of the most generous let-it-play-out attitude and the slim possibility this supremely underwhelming return was agreed upon by Kingston and Tony Khan all along, the normalisation of a top star is indicative of wider problems as much as it is a personal failing of a money-drawing mouth.
Ultimately, Hook's heel turn on Hangman Page at Full Gear at very least folded Kingston into the title picture, but only against Samoa Joe and only at a Winter Is Coming Dynamite TV special. Never say never in wrestling, but as of this writing, a top spot in the aftermath feels unlikely.