Giving Truth a Chance

For the first time in a long time, the WWE championship picture is one filled with different faces. While it’s refreshing to see some new people involved with the title, it remains to be seen if Rey Mysterio, Alberto Del Rio or R-Truth can hold their own with the likes of The Miz and John Cena.

In-ring ability aside, the three of them have yet to truly captivate on the mic the way Miz and Cena can. Truth has potential, but has to be snappier. His promo with Scott Stanford last night was much better than the one he cut earlier in the show. In the end, this problem goes beyond Truth and Mysterio; the WWE has to do a better job of hiding their talent’s weaknesses.

If not, the show will never be as solid as it can be and we’ll be forced to see the same matchups every pay per view.

However, it’s not a mistake that The Miz and Cena’s program is far from over though. These are the only two guys that are capable of delivering the type of entertainment in the ring and on the stick that comes with being involved with the title.

Because of that, it’s strange why the WWE continues to have Cena defend his title at the mid-point mark of the show and continue the angle between Michael Cole and Jerry Lawler.

At this point, it feels like the writers have no idea what the fans want to see and have lost all the momentum they had going into Wrestlemania, when the show was riding high.

Matches:

Kelly Kelly and Eve Torrez vs. Nikki Bella and Brie Bella: A quick match that ended with Kelly reversing a small package for the win. After the match, Kharma was in the ring and took out her frustrations on Torrez and nailed her double underhook buster on the former Divas champ. Can anyone stand up to Kharma?

Kane vs. Mason Ryan:
Another quick match that eliminates any positive momentum Ryan had. After his performance last week, why would the WWE just deflate him like that?

Santino Marella vs. Dolph Ziggler: A match that lasted less than five minutes after Ziggler hit the zig-zag. In the end, it was Marella doing a job. Snore. While Ziggler is an amazing talent, if he is the next RAW youngster to break the glass ceiling in the company, he’s got to dance with someone besides Marella.

John Cena vs. Alex Riley:
Cena got called out and surprisingly, Riley got in some offense before he got put away with a pair of attitude adjustments and a STF.

Kofi Kingston vs. Jack Swagger: Hard to judge a match that had no flow to begin with and was interrupted by a commercial. Swagger delivered most of the offense, but after a late surge, Kingston secured the win with his enziguri finisher, thanks in part to Jerry Lawler.

Rey Mysterio vs. The Miz vs. Alberto Del Rio- for the number one contender’s spot for the WWE title: A nice balance of near falls and high spots. Overall, it was very nice to see the three of these guys get some time to paint on some canvas. However, there wasn’t much of a story here, so the action didn’t have the same luster it could have had.

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About Patrick Hickey Jr. 13819 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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