WWE RAW Coverage: Another Flop, Until Sting Appeared

Thanks to a horrendous promo between Rusev, his community college theater-trained “lawyer” and John Cena and a card chock-full of meaningless filler matches, this week’s Monday Night RAW was another disaster, salvaged only after another Sting appearance, a great interview with Brock Lesnar and the announcement of Larry Zbysko being a part of 2015 class of the WWE Hall of Fame.

Matches:

AJ Lee w/Paige vs. Divas Champion Nikki Bella w/Brie Bella: One of the better Divas matches of 2015. Great back and forth action, with plenty of offense and a solid pace. After Brie took out Paige on the outside, Nikki took advantage with the Roaring Elbow and then the Rack Attack for the win.

The Miz w/Damien Sandow vs. Ryback: The Miz hit the Skull Crushing Finale on Sandow after the match, but couldn’t get it done with Ryback, who hit him for the Meathook Clothesline and the Shell Shocked for the win.

Big E. Langston and Kofi Kingston w/ Xavier Woods vs. WWE Tag Team Champions Tyson Kidd and Antonio Cesaro w/Natalya Neidhart: Cesaro got the win after Kingston hit Kidd with the Trouble In Paradise and was left wide open for a European Uppercut to the back of his head. After the match, Cesaro hit the Neutralizer on Woods, while Los Matadores got the last laugh with some antics.

The Big Show vs. Erick Rowan: The match got thrown out after Show destroyed Rowan with the KO Punch and then the Elbow from the second rope.

Battle Royal: Kane and Mark Henry eliminated everyone and fought amongst themselves until Curtis Axel snuck in and eliminated Kane, but was thrown out by Henry.

Daniel Bryan, Dolph Ziggler and Dean Ambrose vs. Intercontinental Champion Wade Barrett, Luke Harper and Stardust: Plenty of offense from all six competitors in a crazy match that ended with an Ambrose Dirty Deeds. After the match, the offense continued to the outside after Harper took out Ambrose and Stardust took the title into the crowd. By the end of it all, Barrett hit a few Bullhammer Elbows and walked out with his IC Title.

Randy Orton vs. Seth Rollins: There was no match after The Authority hit the ring to take out Orton, but Sting made the save. After Sting hit the Scorpion Death Drop on Noble, Orton added an RKO on Mercury.

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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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