WWE RAW Coverage: Sweet Little Lies

A CM Punk promo interrupted by The Miz?

Very interesting indeed.

Really?

Yes, really.

While Ryback and Punk’s angle is a joke, these two could be great together. It’s too bad that Miz was more concerned with getting Punk on his show to take a lie detector test.

Ironically, the segment wasn’t as bad as it could have been. While there were no answers, to see The Shield, the Tag Team Champs, The Miz, Ryback and CM Punk all duke it out builds up some big momentum with just a week to go before TLC.

Like the majority of the show, it was a pleasant surprise.

Matches:

WWE Tag Team Champions Daniel Bryan and Kane vs. Darren Young and Titus O’Neil: Kane and Bryan had their way with both members of the Prime Time Players early on, while The Shield watched from the crowd. After Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins disappeared, the Tag Champs continued to dominate. After Kane missed an elbow drop, Young turned the tide for a short time, but Hell No seemed more preoccupied with where The Shield was. By the end of the match, the young trio surrounded the ring, but Bryan won with a reversal of a Young rollup. After the bell, Ambrose and Reigns took out Kane, while Rollins and Bryan went at it. Soon enough, the three decimated both Tag Team Champions.

Tamina Snuka vs. AJ Lee: These two may have the best in-ring chemistry of any two divas right now. Although that’s not saying much, they had a decent match. Snuka had Lee in a crazy looking Canadian backbreaker, but the New Jersey- native fought back against the much larger Snuka. When Snuka went for her trademark splash, Lee scored the rollup win.

John Cena and Sheamus vs. World Heavyweight Champion Big Show and Dolph Ziggler: Show was all over Cena in the first few minutes. Scoop slams, slaps and strikes galore. You almost felt bad for the guy. Ziggler’s arrival in the match changed the pace, but Cena was still in trouble. Once Sheamus got in the ring, it was like a video game. Nailing jumping clotheslines and strikes, Sheamus was on fire, but then he got greedy. He missed a top rope Shoulder Block and was nailed with a Spear by Show. Ziggler got in on the assault, but Sheamus countered with an Irish Curse Backbreaker before he tagged in Cena. Soon enough Cena hit Ziggler with the Attitude Adjustment for the win. Sheamus caught Show in the White Noise.

Damien Sandow vs. Santino Marella: After a super long promo between the two, the match got underway. These two have good chemistry in the ring. Between the technical prowess of Sandow and Marella’s antics, this match was fun. Sandow won with his Noose Neckbreaker.

Sin Cara vs. Alberto Del Rio w/Ricardo Rodriguez: A routine encounter between these two that’s been seen several times before. Although there were some cool counters and these two broke a sweat, this was a pretty vanilla encounter. Del Rio won with his Arm Breaker.

Brad Maddox vs. Randy Orton: Maddox jobbed out to the nine-time champion, but The Shield took him out with their triple powerbomb combo.

Fatal Four Way: Intercontinental Champion Kofi Kingston vs. R-Truth vs. Wade Barrett vs. United States Champion Antonio Cesaro: Best match of the night. Filled with offense and spots. The speed of the match and counters alone make it an easy candidate for a spot on the best of RAW 2012 DVD. The flurry of finishers at the end concluded with Cesaro’s Neutralizer.

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Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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