WWE RAW Coverage: Rumblings Before the Royal

With Royal Rumble less than a week away, the WWE did something they haven’t done in a while, they built up enough drama to make you want to pay for a pay per view. With a good-sized card and enough storyline development, Royal Rumble 2014 looks to be one of the better WWE pay per views of the year, as it should be.

Matches:

Intercontinental Champion Big E. Langston and WWE Tag Team Champions Cody Rhodes and Goldust vs. United States Champion Dean Ambrose, Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns: A solid opener with plenty of action. Rhodes was up to his usual high-flying antics through the early part of the match, but The Shield rebounded and used quick tags to get control. After Rhodes hit Reigns with the Disaster Kick, Langston went on a tear too, but a Superman Punch from Reigns and Rollins’ unique Stomp-style finisher earned The Shield the win.

Fandango w/Summer Rae vs. Xavier Woods w/R-Truth: Fandango made quick work of Woods with the Guillotine Leg Drop from the top rope for the win.

CM Punk vs. Billy Gunn w/ Road Dogg: This was essentially a two-on-one, but Punk was up to the task. Although Punk eventually won with the GTS, Gunn was solid, hitting his trademark offense with style and precision. The guy has some gas left.

Rey Mysterio vs. Alberto Del Rio: Both of these former World Champions traded offense in what was ultimately a pretty standard encounter. After 15 minutes of back and forth action and a plethora of near-falls, Del Rio won with the Arm-Breaker. After the match, Del Rio was Powerbombed by Batista.

Divas Champion AJ Lee and Tamina Snuka vs. Naomi and Cameron: A terrible match that saw Naomi Roll Up Lee for a “shocking” win. What a joke. Lee and the division deserve better than this.

Erick Rowan and Luke Harper w/Bray Wyatt vs. Jimmy and Jey Uso: The Family simply destroyed the Usos here, but they never gave up. After about 15 mins of action however, Wyatt began to yammer on the microphone about how he would destroy Daniel Bryan at Royal Rumble. After the verbal tirade, the Usos got back in the match with some High-Flying drama, but Harper nearly won with a Michinoku Driver. After the near-fall, Bryan jumped Wyatt from behind and with Harper distracted, Jimmy Uso rolled him up for the win.

WWE World Heavyweight Champion Randy Orton vs. Kofi Kingston: Another good back and forth match until John Cena interrupted and beat the holy hell out of Orton, in a scrap that continued into the crowd and outside.

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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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