WWE RAW Coverage: Wedding Bells and a New Heyman Guy?

October 1, 2013 Patrick Hickey Jr. Professional Wrestling 0

The last RAW before Battleground was anything but a great prelude to a pay per view.

Between filler matches, the “weird” debut of Los Matadores and the announcement of the Tag Team title match at the Pay Per View between Cody Rhodes and Goldust vs. Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns, it’s easy to say RAW was mediocre. How this show was supposed to fuel a potential purchase of Battleground is puzzling. If anything, it confirmed this month’s show will be a stinker.

Away from the hilarious but genius moment between Ryback and Paul Heyman (is he now a Heyman guy?), RAW was entirely passable.

Not even the RKO through a table that ended the show could save it.

Matches:

CM Punk vs. Big E. Langston: Punk was in trouble in the early going as the hungry Langston hit a splash on a downed Punk and administered a nice Single Leg Crab in addition to an explosive avalanche. A Belly-to-Belly Suplex and more power moves kept Langston in charge, but Punk fought back with kicks, a Neckbreaker and his signature high knee in the corner. After the top rope Elbow, Punk finished off Langston with the GTS.

Fandango w/Summer Rae vs. Kofi Kingston: A high energy match filled with counters. It ended quickly though after Kingston hit The Trouble in Paradise. After the match, The Wyatt Family soon hit the ring, but did nothing.

Los Matadores Fernando and Diego (Primo and Epico) vs. Heath Slater and Jinder Mahal: Their entrance was comparable to “Oz” and “The Shockmaster,” as the new duo was joined by a midget in a bull costume. Away from the new attires and cool Double Shellshock Finisher, this was your average Primo/Epico match. Nothing special.

R-Truth vs. WWE Intercontinental Champion Curtis Axel w/Paul Heyman: This was plain boring. CM Punk’s music hit and distracted Axel, allowing Truth to hit his Little Jimmy finisher for the win.

Alicia Foxx vs. Brie Bella w/Nikki Bella: It’s obvious Brie is now a face, as the drama with Randy Orton and her engagement with Daniel Bryan have made her much less of a heel. Foxx was a leg ahead due to some fancy foot work, but Bella got the win with the Facebuster after a typical face comeback.

Zack Ryder vs. World Heavyweight Champion Alberto Del Rio: The champ decimated Ryder on the inside and outside of the ring. Ryder nearly won with the Broski Boot, but Del RIo kicked out and after a German Suplex, latched on the Arm Breaker for the win.

Dolph Ziggler, Jimmy Uso and Jey Uso vs. WWE Tag Team Champions Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns and WWE United States Champion Dean Ambrose: The crowd dug the match and all six guys worked hard. After all six competitors went for signature and finisher maneuvers a smart tag from Rollins allowed Reigns to hit the Spear on Ziggler for the win.

Antonio Cesaro w/Jack Swagger and Zeb Colter vs. Santino Marella w/The Great Khali and Hornswoggle: Santino got swung around like the chick from “50 Shades of Grey,” but after a weird cradle variation, he somehow beat Cesaro.

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About Patrick Hickey Jr. 13870 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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