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Saturday, April 17, 2021

Eddie Kingston Couldn't Sleep at Night, In Bed He Kept a Knife

 Eddie Kingston vs. Matt Riddle Hybrid Wrestling 10/27/17 - SKIPPABLE

PAS: This was shockingly bad for one all timer and a guy who normally was pretty good to great on the indies. I haven't been this surprised at a match being bad since Fujiwara vs. Kawada. They open with some comedy spots around a rubber chicken, and then each no sell about a half dozen suplexes, and it kind of goes from there. It really felt like they were just going through an indy match at 3/4rs speed, it wasn't even particularly stiff, at one point Eddie totally airballs a clothesline. Finish was really cool at least with Riddle leaping onto Kingston's back and felling him with Goodrich elbows, which Eddie sold great. Finish was cool enough to get it at least a FUN rating if everything else wasn't so bad. 


Eddie Kingston/Jon Moxley vs. Luke Gallows/Karl Anderson AEW Dynamite 3/17/21 - FUN

ER: Can't think of too many big league teams with less watchability in 2021 than The Good Brothers, but I also can't think of a wrestler I wouldn't want to see Eddie Kingston face. And this was mostly a total one man Kingston show. Gallows misses half of his offense (including an ugly pump kick on Moxley that comes up a couple feet short) and Moxley throws some terrible strikes and hits an ugly slow as hell tope on Gallows that kind of connects his hands with Gallows' hands, but we do have Eddie Kingston, and thank god for that. Kingston is active match long, always doing something, and for such a meh match his selling was really stunning. He was great at setting up offense for the Brothers, and while everyone else was waiting to take every piece of offense they took, Kingston was always falling, crawling, dropping to his knees, swinging wild, really giving this match a whole lot of gravitas that it didn't earn. Anderson took a great Kingston exploder, Gallows had a couple nice spots where he got knocked off the apron by Moxley, and the match ending small package was tightly executed. Kingston had maybe the best moment of the match towards the end, lying on the entrance ramp, trying to pull himself by the referee's pant leg to save Mox from a pinfall. Nobody else was putting in that kind of selling effort here, but that's just how Kingston can class up any match at any time. 


COMPLETE AND ACCURATE EDDIE KINGSTON


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