Three great matches made for an entertaining episode of ROH TV, but with no results of Death Before Dishonor and a rare TV time-limit draw, you have to wonder if ROH will ever get it.
They have a new ROH Champion in Adam Cole, but he wasn’t on the show. Because in the minds of ROG brass, people actually buy PPVs still and watch replays of PPVs. Run like a promotion in 1996, the TV tapings and awful commercials continue to hurt the best in-ring product in North America.
Matches:
Jon Grisham vs. “Hangman†Adam Page: Grisham is one heck of a worker as he throws some wicked Deep Arm Drags and counters everything with a ton of speed and polish. After a nasty Flipping Lariat, Page got the win with the Reverse Piledriver.
Stuka Jr. vs. Kamaitachi w/Christopher Daniels: Stuka Jr. is not your normal luchadore. Beefy and tough, he throws wicked chops and can fly. His ROH debut was anything but a disappointment for him. Even in defeat. Stuka Jr. had the match won on several occasions, but thanks to the referee being incapacitated and Daniels interference, Kamaitachi was able to sneak the win out with a Rollup.
Jay White w/Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley vs. IWGP Tag Team Champion Jay Briscoe w/Mark Briscoe: Above anything else, White proved he belonged. Briscoe was all over him with strikes, but White hung in there and kicked out of Lariats and Elbows galore. Standing toe-to-toe, White and Briscoe battle to a TV time limit draw.
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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