WWE RAW Coverage: More Soap Opera Than Suplex

In the wake of CM Punk’s win over John Cena for the WWE title in Chicago on Sunday, the WWE held a World Title tournament.

Sounds great, right?

Not when the tournament itself was all a sham, a masquerade for another storyline to take over the show.

Vince McMahon is out of the WWE…for now.

After an emotional yet cornball-esque promo between Triple H, the new boss and Vinnie Mac, Cena gets to keep his job and McMahon got the pink slip.

It’ll match is pink blazer perfectly.

However, this development didn’t save an otherwise listless show.

Plain and simple, RAW has no champion and is without Punk, their best heel.

Something needs to be fixed and soon.

Matches:

The Miz vs. Alex Riley: A bland match that was light on action. When Riley went for his DDT finisher, The Miz was able to counter and hit the Skull-Crushing finale for the win. Overall, this match was nothing special and ultimately, it hurts their current feud, considering how a hurt Miz took out Riley so easily.

R-Truth vs. Jack Swagger: Michael Cole and Jerry Lawler called R-Truth’s win an upset, but only in Bizarro World. Swagger is a great athlete, but isn’t nearly as polished a competitor as Truth. That was obvious in this match that was better overall than The Miz/Riley encounter. Countering a poorly executed ankle lock into a roll-up, Truth secured the win, but left the fans unhappy. Again, like the first match, there wasn’t much going on in the ring.

Kofi Kingston vs. Alberto Del Rio: After another counter of a finisher, Kingston rolled up Del Rio for the win. Again, it was a pretty routine match.

Dolph Ziggler vs. Rey Mysterio: A quick match that ended after Mysterio hit the 619 on Ziggler. To see a promising United States champ beaten so easily by a cruiserweight can’t be good for Ziggler. The fact that the match was void of action as well proves the WWE doesn’t know what to do with him.

The Bella Twins, Maryse, Rosa Mendez, Tamina, Melina and Alicia Fox vs. Kelly Kelly, Gail Kim, Beth Phoenix, Eve Torrez, Natty Niedhart, AJ and Kaitlyn: A match that lasted barely a minute after Phoenix hit the Glam Slam on Rosa Mendez. In the end, it was a complete waste of time.

The Miz vs. Kofi Kingston: Just when it looked like Kingston was about to steal the match, The Miz hit the skull-crushing finale to advance to the finals of the World Title Tournament.

Rey Mysterio vs. R-Truth: Best match of the night with plenty of near-falls and suspense. However, the finish, essentially the same as the one that got Mysterio the win earlier in the night, felt too inorganic and takes the air out of Truth’s push. Had Truth won, it would have been interesting to see two heels fight for the title.

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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.

1 Comment

  1. I enjoyed reading this review about WWE Raw . It was amazing how the CEO Vince McManhon was released from his own duties, but awesome now Triple H is hopefully going to fix things up …

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