WWE RAW Power Rankings: Lesnar and Rollins Ready for Showdown in Suplex City

July 10, 2015 Patrick Hickey Jr. Professional Wrestling 0

With just two weeks before Battleground, this week’s RAW set up the rest of the matches for the event and gave viewers more Brock Lesnar than they’ve seen in quite some time. Add in a hefty match card and cool finish and it was a solid episode of RAW.

Check out this week’s RAW Power Rankings to see who else besides the mayor of Suplex City starred in a good primer for the go home show before Battleground.

Honorable Mention: Bray Wyatt: He hasn’t done much in the ring the past few weeks, but the mind games he’s playing Roman Reigns are entertaining ones. Both Wyatt and Reigns are a few big feuds away from getting firmly established in the upper part of the card, so why not use each other to help themselves get there?

5: Randy Orton: His return and decimation of Sheamus this week on RAW was a nice way to shore up the upper mid-card just in time for Battleground. Though he’s not the WWE World Heavyweight Champion he was just a year ago at this time, he’s still valuable member of the roster and a guy that is perfect to use on a guy like Sheamus, who needs a big time feud before he cashes in his Money in the Bank.

4: Rusev: The more vicious and calculating Rusev, with Summer Rae by his side, made a big time impact this week on RAW, taking out Dolph Ziggler and ensuring that these two have a solid encounter for Battleground. Like a hefty chunk of the WWE roster, Rusev isn’t quite main event ready, but he continues to prove every week that he’s capable of doing well with more time on TV.

3: John Cena/Kevin Owens: While Seth Rollins and Brock Lesnar continue to get a larger cross section of TV time, Owens and Cena continue to have the best feud in the promotion. With the United States title now at stake, Cena is up for his biggest challenge to date as US Champ, while Owens will have to pony up and be the guy he’s told everyone he’s been since his first day in the company.

2: Seth Rollins: He’s the wiseass and cocky champion you can’t help but hate. But that doesn’t mean he isn’t just as good as he thinks he is. With the renewed support o Triple H and The Authority, Rollins is in a league of his own right now. But can his newfound confidence be enough to get him past Brock Lesnar?

1: Brock Lesnar: Fresh off his decimation of Kofi Kingston in Japan, Lesnar is focused and ready to get back his WWE World Heavyweight Championship belt from Seth Rollins. As Paul Heyman proclaimed on RAW this week, Lesnar is going to take every opportunity to destroy Rollins and The Authority before Battleground. What that means is easy- a ton of German Suplexes and F5’s over the next two weeks leading to Battleground.

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About Patrick Hickey Jr. 13858 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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