Say it Ain’t Ho

A lot happened this week on Raw, but that doesn’t necessarily mean anything good.

While the return of the Undertaker and Triple H and their bout at Wrestlemania will make the company some money, who knows how well the match will ultimately go? Both of these guys are well past their prime and it probably would have been better for the company’s future had they had Sheamus and HHH face-off, but the Celtic Warrior has been too busy jobbing to Mark Henry lately.

Talk about a bonehead move. There is some hope though, as Daniel Bryan and Sheamus got in a little argument after Sheamus’ match. That would be a good Wrestlemania match featuring two of the companies best young athletes.

But who knows what will ll happen there. The more important thing now is the WWE has a monster in Sheamus that they’d rather job-out to the perennial lower-mid-carder in Henry, the same guy who has never been over, even when he was the ECW champion.

The only thing worse than that was the WWE cameras accidentally showing a huge Undertaker sign that was above the ring, not once, but twice, more than a half hour before he was scheduled to hit the ring.

Another silly move is putting Hacksaw Jim Duggan in the WWE Hall of Fame. A decent mid-carder most of his career, Duggan held a few titles during his career and was a fan favorite, but between battling cancer and the infamous drug bust in Long Island in the late ’80s with Iron Sheik, he isn’t Hall of Fame material.

Aside from that, the overall in-ring action was okay, but it’s weird that the WWE has feuds from Smackdown trickling over to Raw every week. Considering that, the main event had a nice share of drama, but seeing Miz and John Cena (who apparently is slowly reverting back to his old Thuganomics character, telling The Rock to “blow” him earlier in the show) lay waste to the tag team champions like that not only diminishes the value of the belt, it makes fans lose interest whenever there’s a tag match on.

At the same time, it did manage to make The Miz look like a credible opponent and with his match against Cena at Wrestlemania, he’s going to need to look as credible as possible.

Even though its been obvious for decades that pro wrestling is scripted, not even the biggest mark would think for a second that the Miz could share a ring with Cena.

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About Patrick Hickey Jr. 14230 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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