I am not the only one who will tell you this: Eddie Kingston represents everything that is good and true about professional wrestling. He’s the real article and this business does not always reward talents like his. Luckily for fans at AEW Worlds End, this time the good guy won.

The King of The Bums achieved a lifelong dream on Saturday, defeating his former-friend-turned-bitter-rival Jon Moxley in the finals of the AEW Continental Classic, and becoming the first AEW Triple Crown Champion, now holding the ROH World, NJPW STRONG Openweight, and AEW Continental Crown Championships. The AJPW-worshipping Kingston has joined the likes of Mitsuharu Misawa, Kenta Kobashi, Toshiaki Kawada, and Akira Taue, as a Triple Crown Champion, and quite simply the match itself was as good as watching Kingston achieve his boyhood dream.

Kingston and Moxley are explosive elements that are seemingly kept separate to avoid combustion. The last one-on-one encounter the two men had ended with Moxley choking Kingston out with barbed wire. While Saturday’s match in Long Island didn’t have the plunder of their previous “I Quit” Match, it had plenty of fury and a packed arena chanting for the hometown hero, Kingston. Just miles away from his home of Yonkers, Kingston not only defeated a ghost from his past but etched his name in AEW and wrestling history.

To a nicer guy, it couldn’t have happened.