If you were expecting just four throw away matches before Battle Club Pro’s Bounty in Kings County event, Wrestlers’ Lab threw a knuckleball at you, giving you not only an awesome main event that crowned its first ever Nucleus Champion, they also gave you an excellent match between ROH star Flip Gordon and Ken Dixon. Overall, One Giant Leap was proof that the Lab is headed in the right direction and that their partnership with Battle Club Pro can get them visibility in front of fans who appreciate their work.
Matches:
Flip Gordon vs. Ken Dixon: Gordon won with beautiful 450, but Dixon was dominant at times with strikes and nearly won with a Complete Shot variation.
The Maine State Posse: Aiden Aggro and Alexander Lee vs. Th13teenth Floor: Ike Cross and Chris Bullet vs.The Amazing Graysons: Tommy and JP: A fun tag team encounter with plenty of offense that ended with a wild finish that saw Th13teenth Floor pick up the win.
Sully Banger vs. Josh Briggs: Lots of back and forth here as Sully dominated for long periods but Briggs refused to give up. Fighting back with strikes and counters, Briggs eventually got the win with the Scott Hall Chokeslam variation.
Winner Becomes First Ever Wrestlers’ Lab Nucleus Champion: Mr. Grim w/ vs. ‘The Wretched’ Trever Aeon vs. ‘The Young Lion’ Tyler Matrix vs. DangerKid: Lots of offense and a fun Tower of Doom/Fallaway Slam spot. At times it felt like an old school TNA match with finishers and counters galore. A ninja interfered to help Danger Kid eliminate Aeon. Danger Kid was soon eliminated as well following a nice Tye-Breaker from Matrix. Although there was some confusion, Mr. Grim then got the win with the Pounce and a mega deadly Contract Complete Spinning Piledriver.
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.
If you were expecting just four throw away matches before Battle Club Pro’s Bounty in Kings County event, Wrestlers’ Lab threw a knuckleball at you, giving you not only an awesome main event that crowned its first ever Nucleus Champion, they also gave you an excellent match between ROH star Flip Gordon and Ken Dixon. Overall, One Giant Leap was proof that the Lab is headed in the right direction and that their partnership with Battle Club Pro can get them visibility in front of fans who appreciate their work.
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