WWE RAW Power Rankings: The Chicago Way?

Stellar promo between CM Punk and Paul Heyman, a stacked card and the developing storyline between the corporation and the locker room fueled one of the better episodes of RAW in months.

Check out our weekly RAW power rankings to see whom else shined on the microphone and in the ring this week on the WWE’s trademark television program.

5: The Miz: A week after he was destroyed by Randy Orton, The Miz was pissed. His future feud with Orton should be fun, but this week, his episode of MizTV with The Big Show was entertaining as well. For the first time in his career, Miz played the honest face and was great at it. Once Stephanie McMahon joined the show she buried The Miz verbally and Show did it with his fist. Ironically, this puts Miz in the same category has Daniel Bryan as a face with the odds stacked against him.

4: Bray Wyatt and the Family: Harper and Rowan looked unstoppable against the Prime Time players this week and Wyatt made the most of a small opportunity. Say what you want about the ability of The Shield, but The Family is easily the most dominating trio in the company today.

3: The Shield: It appeared that the threesome had their hands full this week, but Triple H knows how to play the game. Slowly but surely, the 11 competitors that were supposed to fight the group were softened up in other singles matches. All three were dominant in the ring this week eliminating their fair share of opponents via their trademark offense. Regardless of the outcome, The Shield proved their worth in the ring this week

2: CM Punk: Garbed in a Duncan Keith Blackhawks jersey, Punk worked his hometown crowd beautifully. All set for his match with Ryback at Battleground, perhaps this is the beginning of another singles push that ultimately rids him of Paul Heyman’s shadow and allows him to get back in the WWE title picture. At this point, Punk is completely disconnected from the main storyline and once this feud with Ryback is over, perhaps he gets in the middle of this. Don’t let the beating he took from Ryback and Curtis Axel and the whole “I’m not good enough” promo he served up this week fool you. Punk still has a few special moments left in him.

1: Daniel Bryan: The B+, Goat-Faced Troll is perhaps more over than an WWE has been since Punk’s magical summer in 2011. Another excellent match this week continues to confirm what many people have known for years. He’s one of the best workers in the world today.

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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.

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