WWE RAW Power Rankings: Cena Ready for Night of Champions

September 17, 2014 Patrick Hickey Jr. Professional Wrestling 0

A beefy card and every champion in action was not enough to set the last episode of RAW before Night of Champions apart. Simply put, it was pretty damn boring.

Check out this week’s RAW Power Rankings to see who picked up some much-needed momentum going into Night of Champions.

Honorable Mention: Cesaro: After some time on the losing end of several matches, Cesaro looks primed to win the United States title. Simply put, while Sheamus is a marketable talent, Cesaro could be the guy that defends the title on every TV show and brings some prestige back to a now dormant United States Championship scene.

5: AJ Lee/Paige: Lee wants to get her hands on Paige, badly. With the chemistry these two have, their match at Night of Champions has plenty of potential. Add Nikki Bella into the mix and this will be one of the best Divas title matches in quite some time.

4: Goldust and Stardust: They are weird, but they work together well and get more of a legitimate response from the audience than the Usos. As talented as the current Tag Team Champions are, it might be more enjoyable to see them reclaim their titles than actually defend them. For that reason, it makes a lot of sense that the Rhodes boys could leave Night of Champions with the WWE Tag Team titles.

3: John Cena: Ready for another shot at WWE World Heavyweight Champion Brock Lesnar, Cena locked Paul Heyman in his dressing took until he got the answers he wanted. Decimated in their last encounter, can Cena step up and reclaim the belt? Either way, he’s found a way to be entertaining and stay relevant without the title, something the WWE needs him to do with Lesnar’s part-time schedule.

2: Paul Heyman: With Brock Lesnar’s part-time status limiting how much drama there can be with the WWE World Heavyweight title match at Night of Champions, Heyman has done a masterful job of playing mind games with Cena. Although Lesnar has popped up at the right times, it is Heyman who has done the majority of the heavy lifting outside of the ring.

1: Brock Lesnar: Sure, Cena is pissed, but Lesnar wasted no time this week on RAW German Suplexing him, again. There hasn’t been a more dominant WWE Champion in years and it’ll take a lot more than some punches on the outside of the ring to put “The Beast” away.

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About Patrick Hickey Jr. 14230 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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