10 Classic Wrestling Rivalries With ONE THING MISSING
6. CM Punk Vs Eddie Kingston - A Rematch
CM Punk and Eddie Kingston might have been and still be the best little bit of business in wrestling history.
Everybody's more prone to hyperbole than they used to be in this content super-service era, but assess all that got achieved and how it happened and the argument only gets as weighty as the original promo battle that kicked it all off.
That verbal joust was the perfect pissy pro wrestling promotion. With apologies for the alteration in particular there, because Kingston and Punk's exchanges were anything but flowery. After one backstage shoving contest and that epic in-ring spar, years of Kingston's resentment and Punk's piousness were about to be unleashed in the form of a bloody and unfussy Full Gear bout that never once veered from the real-feeling biliousness of the build.
Sporting his best ever gear and spoiling for the fight 'The Mad King' was only too happy to give him, Punk brought also the angriest version of himself back as a response to those that had seen a little too much of the nice side.
Perhaps a rematch at some point might have ruined the magic and tampered with the perfection. "More is always more" is the preserve of the promoter rather than the fanbase, but Punk and Kingston might yet again be the great rule-proving exceptions.