In a match filled with interesting storylines, backstage intrigue, and very real implications for AEW‘s future booking plans, one storyline rose above the rest and felt so potentially contentious that Draftkings even ran a prop bet on whether or not teammates would fight during the match: Would Eddie Kingston and Claudio Castagnoli work together on the same team in Blood and Guts?

Would the duo play nice for their mutual friend Jon Moxley, whom they were both wrestlings alongside in Blood and Guts? Or would things instead be on sight the moment they entered the ring together and deliver onto fans the first inter-team tap-out in a Blood and Guts match?

Fortunately, moreso for Moxley than the fans watching at home, Castagnoli and Kingston largely made it work and played nicely for their mutual friend, but if you saw the look in the latter's eyes when his long-time rival – and long-time WWE performer – secured the win on top of the cage on “Daddy Magic” Matt Menard while he himself was mere moments away from putting Chris Jericho out of action with the Stretch Plum, the move he used to ice out “The Wizard” at Revolution.

Goodness, look at that face: Claudio Castagnoli should enjoy inflated oil prices while he can, for there might just be a gas bath from the “Mad King” in his not-too-distant future.

AEW hasn't seen the last of the Eddie Kingston-Claudio Castagnoli drama.

The big, final feud in Chikara between Eddie Kingston and Claudio Castagnoli wasn't over a belt, a tournament, or even a match. No, one of the firest feuds of the last decade, at least on the independent wrestling scene, was a matter of respect, namely, that the former member of The Kings Of Wrestling gave the Yonkers native about as much respect as Rodney Dangerfield.

While the duo ultimately duked it out in a 24-minute bout at Chikara's Creatures From The Tar Swamp in a match that Castagnoli ultimately won and both performers have moved forward with their respective careers, the beef between the duos has never really dissipated, at least on Kingston's side of things, which shouldn't come as too much of a surprise, as he once had a segment on Dynamite dedicated to addressing his enemies.

Enemies – plural. Goodness, some people just aren't very friendly.

And yet, through it all, whether teaming up with the Lucha Brothers, The Butcher and The Blade, or in his current trio with Proud and Powerful – assuming Santana didn't suffer too bad of an injury at Blood and Guts – the one man who always respected Kingston and whom he showed respect to in return, was Jon Moxley. Sure, they fought, including in an I Quit match at Full Gear but when Moxley was left dead to rights in the middle of a barb-covered ring wired up to explode, who came out to save his skin? It wasn't Castagnoli, Bryan Danielson, or even William Regal – for obvious reasons. No, it was Kingston who threw his body on top of his friend without the knowledge that the explosions wired up by Kenny Omega and Don Callas were duds.

Will Moxley be able to hold Kingston's unquenchable taste for revenge and righteous indignation at bay long enough for the duo to absolve their differences? Or will this powder keg erupt before our very eyes and throw the very fate of the Blackpool Combat Club into disarray? For the sake of the fans watching at home, let's hope it's the latter.