Kingston With the Gravy Mercedes Add the Cranberry Sauce

Eddie Kingston vs. 2 Cold Scorpio IWA-MS 3/1/08 - EPIC

PAS: Eddie Kingston recently announced that this would be the last year of his career, and while I hope that isn't true, I am going to really bang the Eddie Kingston C+A this year and celebrate that awesome career. IWA-MS is a fed that is best known for excess, crazy spotfests, bloody death matches, but around 2008 2 Cold came in and ran a bunch of these awesome minimalist matches built around hard shots, selling and grinding matwork. He had an awesome one with Low-Ki and this banger with Kingston. If you are going to something based on selling and hard shots, Eddie Kingston is one of the hardest hitters around, and one of the all time great sellers. I loved Kingston holding hard onto the headlock early, including absorbing two suplexes to keep it locked in. Both guys laid in with a bunch of different kinds of great looking strikes, Scorp landed a spin kick to the chin, Kingston hit palm strikes to Scorpio's kidneys, and crossfaces. In lesser matches, every shot would be an elbow smash, here they found different ways to make it hurt. All of Scorpio's flying in this match was to hurt not to dazzle, the moonsault was gorgeous, but he landed like a bad of cement tossed out of a pickup truck. Finish was class, with Scorpio hesitating a bit before heading back to the top and getting caught and dropped right on his head with a backdrop driver for the pin. Great stuff, and a credit to the absolute world class greatness of both guys.


COMPLETE AND ACCURATE EDDIE KINGSTON