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Brian Kendrick's King of Flight
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Brian Kendrick's King of Flight
March 24th, 2013
Huntington Park, CA


Nigel McGuinness and some weirdo named GQ Money are on commentary. They have some blond lady doing ring announcing who clearly has no idea who anybody is.

Before his match, Paul London says clapping is old news and walks around the hilariously small community theater venue to hand fans kazoos.

Match #1: Paul London vs. Samuray Del Sol [King of Flight Quarterfinals]
This was great. London's basically flipped things now where he's being spacey and aloof because he's super arrogant about his career compared to most of these guys. He has some great offense and does well for himself as a veteran high flyer, hitting lots of cool offense but saving his big spots for the end, while setting up all of SDS's stuff really really well. SDS gets an upset win with his sweet Snap Victory Roll off the top.
***

Match #2: AR Fox vs. Nick Jackson [King of Flight Quarterfinals]

This was solid too. Jackson's heeling was pretty good and the total basicness and show-off-ness of it all set up AR's comeback flippy stuff well. They got a little contrived at the end, since it's these two, but it could have ultimately been much worse and longer than it was. Jackson avoids the Lo Mein Pain, and Fox gets a roll up to win.
**1/2

Match #3: Ricochet vs. Amazing Red [King of Flight Quarterfinals]

Ricochet might be the best high flyer in the world in 2013. Amazing Red might have been the best in 2003, so this is interesting for that at least. This was like ten times better than I expected, and was the first time I've felt like Red brought it in a decade, almost like he was putting it all into a swan song. They told this awesome story where he basically had to kill himself to stay alive against the younger and more agile superior athlete, and fucked up his knee doing it. Ricochet gradually get more and more cocky about this, allowing Red to fight back. Red then went for a Springboard Flipping Senton, BUT RICOCHET MOVED AND RED WENT FLYING INTO LIKE 5 ROWS OF CHAIRS AND PEOPLE. One of the crazier bumps I can remember seeing in a while. Red's exhaustion selling of it kicked ass, and it picked the match up a ton, dramatically. After that, I legit bought Red having a shot at this, so the nearfall off of a Super Code Red was AMAZING. Red's knee is too fucked up to immediately cover, and it costs him a ton of time climbing back up top, so Ricochet can recover. He hits a Super Reverse Frankensteiner for the win. That really came out of nowhere. High recommendation.
***1/2

Match #4: Rich Swann vs. Matt Jackson [King of Flight Quarterfinals]

Rich Swann is my favorite flippy dude right now, and he tried his best. Swann will take a chest-first bump into the corner, so I love him even more. Too much of a Jackson being a Jackson. They have no idea at all how to kill time when in control because they think of it as killing time before the end. The finishing run is cool, but almost entirely because of Swann. Swann wins with a Small Package when Nick Jackson comes out to try a twin switch. Why is Kendrick protecting the Bucks like this?
**1/4

Match #5: Samuray Del Sol vs. AR Fox [King of Flight Semi-Finals]

I think I've now seen enough to say I don't like AR Fox. He can't do anything but spots, half of them are contrived as fuck, and I generally have the same complaints I have about the Young Bucks. Del Sol did what he could, but he's not able to carry dudes yet. They kicked out of each other's finishes for no real reason because AR Fox doesn't get how tournaments work. Del Sol hits a god damned handspring Reverse Rana for the win, which was as insane as it sounds.
**1/2

Match #6: Ricochet vs. Rich Swann [King of Flight Semi-Finals]

THE INNER CITY MACHINE GUNS EXPLODE! This was an exceptional spotfest. Ricochet works as subtle heel again, and he's awesome at it. Swann now throws some amazing chops too, because he's somehow getting even better. Ricochet has some awesome offense here, the best of which was setting up for a Scissors Kick, but then hitting a stomp to the head instead of a kick to the back of the neck. Totally insane and violent looking. They had a real cool finishing run, but they were obviously holding back for when they do this in PWG or Dragon Gate or somewhere else, which makes sense. Ricochet wins with a Phoenix Splash. This clueless moron GQ Money mistakes this for a 630 Splash, because Kendrick clearly just hired some random asshole.
***

Match #7: Ryan J. Morals vs. Mr. Tanaka

This is two barely trained dudes and it's really horrible. Again, pretty sure Kendrick spent his budget on the eight dudes and just grabbed the first two he could find for a filler match. Not watching it.

Match #8: Samuray Del Sol vs. Ricochet [KING OF FLIGHT FINALS]
Del Sol is coming in with a hurt shoulder, since he keeps holding it. Ricochet is again an amazing heel and they do an awesome underdog story. Ricochet keeps having to one up SDS in insane ways, any time SDS gets a little hope spot, but it eventually results hin Del Sol being able to come back. They have some wonderful finishing spots, AND RICOCHET LANDS ON HIS FEET FROM A SUPER REVERSE RANA. HE TRIES A NORMAL ONE, BUT DEL SOL BACKFLIPS OUT, AND HITS THE REVERSE RANA FINALLY! They do big counters, and Del Sol avoids the 630, and hits the Handspring Reverse Rana for the upset!
***1/2
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Ford
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You seem unhappy. I like that.

GQ Money is that faggot from XPW. He was also Fabian Kaelin in WSX.
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Big Evil
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On TBS. Very Funny.

I wanna say he used to tag with uhhhh...Kevin Eubanks!
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Ford
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You seem unhappy. I like that.

DIE IN A FIRE YOU HORRIBLE PIECE OF SHIT
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