WWE RAW Coverage: Catching ZzZ’s Before the Rumble

In what was supposed to be a wild episode of RAW, the last show before Royal Rumble, little happened to draw any type of excitement. Away from a Goldberg, Undertake and Brock Lesnar appearance to end the show, little else happened. The return of The Big Show and Seth Rollins getting screwed out of his Royal Rumble spot were cool too, but this was an episode of RAW you could have easily missed. The last hour dragged on awfully and again, this was another reason why the blue brand is just a better show.

Matches:

RAW Tag Team Champion Cesaro w/RAW Tag Team Champion Sheamus vs. Luke Gallows w/Karl Anderson: A standard match with little in the way of entertainment. After Sheamus was taken out on the outside by Anderson, Gallows, who tapped out to the Sharpshooter behind the refs back earlier, got the win with the Flapjack.

Royal Rumble Spot Match: Sami Zayn vs. Seth Rollins: This was a great match that saw Zayn win with a Rollup after Rollins was distracted by Triple H’s entrance theme.

Aria Daivari, Drew Gulak and Tony Nese vs. Mustafa Ali, TJ Perkins and Jack Gallagher: The only thing that was special about this match was the finish as Ali hit the Phoenix 450 for the win.

Eight-Man Tag: Kofi Kingston, Big E. Langston, Colin Cassady and Enzo Amore w/Xavier Woods vs. Braun Strowman, Rusev, Jinder Mahal and Titus O’Neil w/Lana: Lots of back and forth until Strowman hit the ring and destroyed Amore with a Running Powerslam. After the match, Big Show hit the ring and the two stood face to face before Strowman exited the ring and said, “On my time.”

United States Champion Chris Jericho vs. Roman Reigns: This match got thrown out as Universal Champion Kevin Owens interrupted the match. Owens tried to put Reigns in the Shark Cage, but Reigns fought back and put Owens in it before he nailed Jericho with the Superman Punch and Spear.

Nia Jax vs. Local Indie Competitor: Can you say squash? Jay won with the Banzai Drop.

WWE Cruiserweight Champion Rich Swann vs. Noam Dar w/Alicia Foxx: Dar fought hard but Swann dominated with the Rich Kick and earned the victory. After the match, Swann called out Neville and got in a few licks.

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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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