WWE RAW Coverage: A Sad Joke

March 10, 2015 Patrick Hickey Jr. Professional Wrestling 0

WWE programming hit all-time low this week as Wiz Khalifa’s performance was the perfect example of the promotion’s weak writing and double standards.

If the bang-bang format, constant camera angle changing and match-stacking wasn’t a huge indication of the lack of creativity on this week’s show, Khalifi’s “performance” hurt the WWE’s credibility big time.

WWE official Triple H told Stone Cold on his podcast a few weeks ago that Chyna would never get in the WWE Hall of Fame because of her career in form, but Khalifa, who has a sex tape of his own, can rap about white women giving him “Becky” on the promotion’s PG show.

Add in a slew of weak matches, a horrid Sting vignette and the continued misuse of Daniel Bryan and RAW was a waste of time that not even Paul Heyman, Bray Wyatt and John Cena could fix.

Matches:

Daniel Bryan vs. Intercontinental Champion Wade Barrett: A quick win that saw Bryan counter the Winds of Change into a Crucifix for a near-fall before he finished off Barrett with the Knee Plus. After the match however, Barrett nailed Bryan with the Bullhammer Elbow. Dean Ambrose soon made his way to the ring and took out Barrett before his match began.

Dean Ambrose vs. Stardust: While Stardust hit me interesting offense, including a Dragonscrew on the apron, Ambrose got the win with the Dirty Deeds. After the match, Wade Barrett , Daniel Bryan, Luke Harper and Dolph Ziggler all hit the ring and beat on each other, before R-Truth once again stole the IC title. Add in a flurry of finishers and it was certainly an action-packed segment.

The Big Show and Kane vs. Erick Rowan and Ryback: Rowan got the win after Big Show accidentally hit Kane with the KO Punch. After the match Stephanie McMahon sent both behemoths home for the night.

AJ Lee w/ Paige vs. Summer Rae w/Eva Marie and Cameron: Lee got the quick win with Black Widow.

United States Champion Alexander Rusev w/Lana vs. Curtis Axel: Rusev waste don time and got the win with a Super Kick and The Accolade. After the match, Rusev talked smack about the United States and Cena hit the right and choked him out with the STF, twice.

WWE Tag Team Champions Tyson Kidd and Antonio Cesaro w/Natalya Neidhart vs. Big E. Langston and Xavier Woods w/Kofi Kingston: In an anti-climatic waste of time, Woods Rolled up Kidd for the unexpected win.

Naomi w/Jimmy and Jey Uso vs. Natalya Neidhart w/Tyson Kidd and Cesaro: Naomi got the surprising win with the Rear View.

Los Matadores w/ El Torito vs. Jimmy and Jey Uso w/Naomi: After interference from torito, Fernando hit Jimmy and rolled him up for the win.

Seth Rollins and Randy Orton w/Jamie Noble and Joey Mercury vs. Roman Reigns: Ironically, Rollins sent J & J security to the back early in the match as Reigns dominated against Rollins. Not so ironically, Orton then refused to tag into the match, allowing Reigns to hit the Spear for the win. After the match, Orton beat on Rollins and hit him with a Clothesline and a ton of strikes on the outside before beating on him with a chair and finishing him off with his elevated DDTwith Rollins’ legs on the guard rail and the RKO through the announce table.

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About Patrick Hickey Jr. 13861 Articles
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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