Hopes for Monday’s Wrestling Shows

January 4, 2010 Patrick Hickey Jr. Professional Wrestling, TV 0

With this Monday night being easily the most important in recent wrestling history, Review Fix shares its hopes for the night.

Less-Yapping, More Wrasslin’: Aside from hearing Hart and Hogan, there should be little melodrama tonight. A nice heart-helping of matches is exactly what this night ought to have.

High-Quality Matches: Seems like the only time you can watch a great match today is on DVD or pay-per-view. With TNA and WWE running unopposed on different nights, the sense of urgency isn’t there anymore and as a result, the quality of matches have suffered- big time. It’s so bad that even the debut show of ECW on Sci-Fi a few years ago had a jobber match featured [Anyone remember the Zombie?]. Are you kidding? That’s supposed to be a thing of the past, especially with people paying for cable service and advertisers forking over millions to see these guys perform out there. Having a great technical match between two young superstars on each show would be a great way to usher in the new year and show the real fans they haven’t forgotten about them.

Hulk Hogan doesn’t wrestle: At 56 years old, no matter what he’s done in the past, Hogan should not wrestle. If he interrupts a match or something to that extent- fine and dandy, but please, no more leg drops and big boots. You’ve got more plastic and metal in your body than a new Saab and it’s best to let the fans remember you for what you were, which was the most charismatic and enduring figures in the sport’s history.

In the immortal words of Burgess Meredith in “Rocky,” “Down, Down, Stay Down.”

Bret Hart REALLY speaks his mind: While his DVD compilation and mid-90s documentary were candid to an extent, it would be nice to see the Hitman speak his mind about Shawn Michaels and Vince McMahon. Making matches is great and seeing him on TV is one thing, but having Hart share his thoughts on his career [possibly telling us what he ate before the Survivor Series match that caused that huge loogie on McMahon’s face] and the state of the sport, in front of millions on live TV, would make for some of the best moments in the sports history.

A title change: WWE’s pale-skinned and ginger Champion Sheamus, “The Celtic Warrior” is getting a big push and AJ Styles seems to have control over the TNA title, but seeing someone like Hernandez win the Global Championship or an up and coming youngster come out of nowhere to steal the United States Heavyweight title from the Miz [easily one of the coolest wrestlers out there, but better as a hungry heel than a champ] and start a long-running feud would be different.

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About Patrick Hickey Jr. 14316 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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