WWE RAW Coverage: Men in Bear Suits?

Bear Suits? Is this what RAW has come to now? For the past month, there’s been a segment on RAW that was so bad that it made you want to change the channel. Dean Ambrose in a Bear suit was this week’s disaster.

Starting off strong with drama between Brock Lesnar and Samoa Joe and ending strong with a two-out-of-three falls match for the WWE RAW Tag Team titles, the show wasn’t awful, it just had no meat in-between. Bottom line, this show needs to be rebooted.

Matches:

Elias Sampson vs. Dean Ambrose: Thanks to interference from The Miz and Maryse, Sampson was able to win with the Swinging Neckbreaker.

Cedric Alexander vs. Noam Dar: A disaster that saw Alexander get the squash win with the Lumbar Check.

Kalisto vs. Apollo Crews w/Titus O’Neil: Crews got the win with a spinning variation of his Powerbomb. Akira Tozawa was ringside and apparently wasn’t happy to be a part of the Titus Brand.

Sasha Banks, Mickie James and Dana Brooke vs. WWE RAW Women’s Champion Alexa Bliss, Via Jax and Emma: A thrown together match that saw Banks win with the Bank Statement.

Intercontinental Champion The Miz and “A Bear” w/Maryse vs. Heath Slater and Rhyno: All the Bear puns aside, this was awful. Ambrose revealed himself as the Bear and took out Miz with the Dirty Deeds and threw Slater on top for the win.

Enzo Amore and Colin Cassady vs. Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson: With Cast attacked again before the match, apparently by The Revival, Gallows and Anderson got the quick win with the Magic Killer. After the match, The Big Show hit the ring to limit the damage, much to Cars’ chagrin.

Two-out-of-Three Falls: WWE Tag Team Champions Sheamus and Cesaro vs. Matt and Jeff Hardy: Sheamus got the first near-fall, but the Hardy’s fought back and Matt scored a fall on Cesaro. However, before there could be a definitive winner, both teams got counted out.

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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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