10 Best Moments In AEW History
7. Eddie Kingston’s Fire Walk
The most cringeworthy sensation in all of wrestling is watching a performer attempt to act unhinged. That is because, more often than not, they are a performer; somebody attempting to play a role that is virtually impossible to execute convincingly.
Eddie Kingston, a pro wrestling God whose absence will be missed profoundly when he’s gone, looked so disturbed and unhinged, when making his return to the first Anarchy In The Arena match, that he looked genuinely intent on setting Chris Jericho on fire.
Do you realise how impossible that is?
The match itself was an all-timer, almost better for how the beleaguered director almost missed big plunder spots, cutting to some deranged table wreckage at the last possible second. AEW conjured and only barely captured total and utter chaos. The brawling was world class.
But it was a bloodied Kingston shambling back to the ring, like a broken man dead behind the eyes, that elevated the match into the realm of the iconic.
Kingston did something that no other wrestler can do, and he did so with inch-perfect cinematic flair.