With three-filler matches and the only promo being between ROH TV and World Champion Jay Lethal and Roderick Strong, this week’s Ring of Honor continues the same formula. Sure the in-ring action is solid, but there’s no sexiness. With zero title changes to date and the obvious feeling that the show is filmed weeks before, how does Ring of Honor plan to stay on Destination America if they aren’t even trying?
With a talent exchange with New Japan and their talented roster, they have the tools to put on a one-of-a-kind show. So why won’t they?
Matches:
War Machine: Hanson and Rowe vs. The IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions The Young Bucks: Nick Jackson and Matt Jackson: War Machine was dominant in the early going until the Bucks hit a variety of Super Kicks and double-team maneuvers on the outside. At one point, it appeared that Nick was injured, which had AJ Styles come from the back to check on him. With this, War Machine worked on Matt in the ring. Once Nick couldn’t get back in the ring, Styles took his place and inadvertently took out the referee while War Machine hit their Powerbomb combination before Nick jumped back in the match, hit a pair of Superkicks and Styles got the win with the Styles Clash.
Cedric Alexander w/Veda Scott vs. Romantic Touch: Thanks to help from Scott, Alexander got the quick win with the Lumbar Check.
Adam Cole vs, Kyle O’Reilly: These two were having a solid match before Christopher Daniels and Frank Kazarian got involved and got the match thrown out.
Impromptu: Adam Cole and Kyle O’Reilly vs. Christopher Daniels and Frankie Kazarian: Cole and O’Reilly got the win via Rollup, but afterwards, the Kingdom, Bobby Fish and Chris Sabin hit the ring to leave even more questions.
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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