This was for Kingston’s CHIKARA Grand Championship.
The best sort of an Eddie Kingston match, outside of a brawl, is an Eddie Kingston knee work match. This briefly teases out that it might be that, but disappointingly just becomes a bombfest. Luckily, Eddie Kingston is better at pacing out an epic title match bombfest than all but maybe five people in the world at this point, and five might be a reach. He does it while always selling the knee despite Jigsaw abandoning it, and always selling the big shots as well as anybody. Jigsaw’s also pretty alright here. Nothing he does is all that exceptional in a match that also involves Eddie Kingston, but he does his best to not let the match down. You can probably trim three to five off the back end of this, as it’s hard to buy Jigsaw as a credible challenger at this point in the reign or at this point in CHIKARA, but it’s never a match I’d call less than great, even stretched to its thinnest points.
Not the match you use to convince (as if you should have to?) anyone that Eddie Kingston is one of the greatest of all time, but the sort of match you use to display that Eddie Kingston makes every single match he’s in that much better.
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