Low-Ki Advent Calendar Night 2: Matches from ICW 3/4/11

Doing some internet surfing I discovered that there was a 2011 Red vs. Low-Ki match I had no idea happened, considering that is one of my favorite rivalries ever, I signed up for Titlematch Wrestling Networks service to check it out. The show also had a Kingston vs. Moxley match which fits our C+A Kingston so I made a double post

Eddie Kingston vs. Jon Moxley - FUN

PAS: It feels like a real blood feud between these two would have been awesome. A chance to do competing promos, really stretch out and get violent would have been great. This was more of a house show undercard contest.  Moxley is a fun Piper style seller, and he had some fun flopping and gesticulating when he was hit with Kingston's big shots. There was a neat arm sell by Kingston when he got hit with a tope, but this was mostly just exchanging shots until a tights roll up finish. Entertaining but pretty unessential, you should mute the commentary for sure, as one of the guys does a racist gibberish Japanese announcer gimmick which is unbearable

Low-Ki vs. Red - GREAT

PAS: This is their first singles match in eight years, and worked very differently then their turn of the century series. Ki was coming off of his WWE stint and Red had finished rehabbing his knee injury. This went 30 minutes, and was worked at a slower pace, with the focus more on stiffness then on mind bending athleticism. They open up doing some shtick with the crowd including Red shit talking a dipshit fat NYC fan who tried to start a boring chant during the feel out process (Low-Ki takes a second out of the ringside brawling section later in the match to dump a beer on his lap).  Ki really unloads with his kicks and chops as usual, but Red brings it just as hard, including a nasty running forearm to the face which landed with a base deep thump. We do get a Wushu section, which was pretty cool, although a bit slower then in 2001, I love how Ki mixes it up by landing a stiff straight kick to the chest instead of a pose to the crowd. They built to a pretty dramatic finish, although Red didn't really have the kind of big offense needed for this kind of 2.9 finish run (a red star press is a cool flash pin, but doesn't really feel like a milk the drama near fall). Ki wins with a head and arm choke which also seemed a bit of an incongruous finish for the match they were telling. Still those are minor quibbles for what was a really nifty match, it isn't the Red vs. Ki you were expecting, but a cool experience anyway.

COMPLETE AND ACCURATE LOW-KI
COMPLETE AND ACCURATE EDDIE KINGSTON