Eddie Kingston Be Popping Them Uzi's, Copping Them Coogi's

Eddie Kingston vs. Joker CZW 1/14/12 - EPIC

PAS: This was a street fight between ex-tag partners and was a FUTEN level asskicking by both guys. Joker is an all time crowbar, he throws his forearms like he is aiming at a point behind Kingston's head, there were multiple points in this match where I audibly gasped at the force of the shots. Kingston is such a master at these kind of slugfest matches, that you give him a heater like Joker he is going to deliver something great. While Joker is throwing fastballs all match, Kingston modulates his shots, there is a forearm exchange where Kingston throws a couple of weaker shots, before he musters all of his power and just smashes Joker, the weaker shots made the big shot even more impactful. There is a table spot, because it's CZW, but most of this street fight was just guys putting their hands on each other, and holy hell what a finish. Kingston throws one of the hardest backfists I have ever seen right to the point where Joker's spine meets his head, no way Joker didn't at least lose feeling in his extremities briefly.

ER: Phil watched this match last night, and wrote it up in a draft. I woke up this morning, saw there was a new Kingston match draft, opened it up and saw that Phil deemed it EPIC, and read nothing more. I went on IWTV, watched the match immediately, and then later Phil called to tell me about the match only to laugh knowingly when I said I watched it before doing anything else that day. EPIC Kingston matches have that effect on me, as they should, because they consistently warrant that treatment. Kingston gets into fights, and a street fight with a former partner is something that he's not going to drop the ball on. Kingston knows just what kind of intensity to approach that kind of match with. Joker is a guy who is criminally underwatched by me (I was not a CZW guy, meaning it is a fed with 20 years of potential hidden gems for my eyes), as he's got the stiffness and unprofessionalism of Low-Ki, but doesn't have the high profile internet enemies that Ki has. 

And here he acts like a jilted ex-partner and aims to bruise King's whole body. He was throwing shots violent enough to make me get vocal with my computer, and is there anybody better at selling those kind of shots than one Eddie Kingston? Every Kingston match I watch, ever, has him doing some kind of sell that I don't remember, and he had those peppered all through this match. Joker threw a couple of absolutely cruel/unnecessary/illegal capture snap suplexes that dumped Kingston directly onto the back of his head and neck, and after the first one Kingston just sits there on his knees holding one extended vocal note while staring at the mat. It was so perfect, and so perfectly Kingston. He also clonks Joker with a hard as hell headbutt, and immediately drops to his knees and onto his face. The best. Phil makes a great point about King saving his shots, and it really makes a played out tired ass kneeling strike exchange fresh and interesting, with a couple of weak elbows suddenly boiling into him wrecking Joker. He's the only one adding nuance to played out situations. This had some real fun floor brawling (with Joker flying insanely hard into King with a cannonball), a big suplex into a table, and we end with Kingston hitting literally the greatest spinning backfist in history (and yes I know about Aja Kong and Shonie Carter, and also goddamn Chikara book them as Team Backfist for a KoT and I'll give you a bunch of money) right to Joker's cerebellum. It's possible that backfist lead to Joker frequently forgetting whether he was retired or not, a 50 First Dates scenario where he can't remember whether he is a wrestler or not.

COMPLETE AND ACCURATE EDDIE KINGSTON