10 Best Opening 60 Seconds Of Wrestling Matches Ever

9. Eddie Kingston Vs. CM Punk - AEW Full Gear 2021

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The facial expressions worn by CM Punk and Eddie Kingston were incredible.

Punk stood still, wearing a fixed expression, embodying the self-imposed ideal of the professional star that Kingston loathed to his core. Kingston paced, so much so that Bryce Remsburg had to calm him down from the seethe that it felt like had consumed him since he first crossed paths with Punk in the promotion.

Before the bell even sounded, Kingston blasted Punk in the face with the Uraken. This was a fight in Eddie's mind. There are no rules in a fight.

Well over a decade of simmering frustration erupted in that moment. Kingston struck Punk with such wild lunging force that he might as well have been punching every pious d*ckhead who ever told him he was too fat, undisciplined, lazy, unprofessional, whatever.

After almost taking Punk's head off, Kingston located the hard camera with the greatest of ease - what, you thought he couldn't do television? - and grinned maniacally after unleashing years and years' worth of festering vengeance.

Punk sold it beautifully, sat up with a bird flip, told Bryce that of course he was fine to work the match, and then Eddie Kingston bit him in the face.

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