WWE RAW Coverage: New Tag Team Champions

If this week’s episode was supposed to get you excited for Elimination Chamber, it failed miserably. If Elias’ wacky heel turn, sloppy promo and long-winded matches weren’t enough, Dean Ambrose’s change of tune after months of being pushed as a heel were the nail in the coffin. If not for The Revival’s winning of the RAW Tag Team Championships and Becky Lynch’s anti-apology antics that led to Charlotte Flair being chosen by Vince McMahon as Ronda ROusey’s opponent for Wrestlemania, RAW wouldn’t have even been watchable.

Matches:

Loser Enters Elimination Chamber Match for Women’s Tag Team Titles First: Sasha Banks and Bayley vs. Nia Jax and Tamina Snuka vs. Liv Morgan and Sarah Logan w/Ruby Riott: Lots of offense, but this match dragged. Jax and Snuka got the win on Bayley to force the face team to start The Elimination Chamber.

Finn Balor vs. Drew McIntyre: With the Intercontinental Champion Bobby Lashley and Lio Rush ringside, Balor won via DQ as Lashley got involved, before Kurt Angle made the save and German Suplexed Lashley and McIntyre and put Rush in the Ankle Lock. Soon enough, Baron Corbin hit the ring to beat on Angle before Braun Strowman attacked the heels.

Baron Corbin, Intercontinental Champion Bobby Lashley and Drew McIntyre w/Lio Rush vs. Finn Balor, Braun Strowman and Kurt Angle: A lengthy and dull encounter that got restarted after Lashley pinned Falor but the ref didn’t see his leg on the ropes. After the match restarted, Strowman hit the Running Powerslam on Lashley, before Balor got the with the Coupe de Grace.

Ruby Riott vs. Nikki Cross: Riott got the win with the Riott kick in a statement match before her match with Ronda Rousey at Elimination Chamber.

Ethan Carter III vs. Dean Ambrose: A week after EC3 rolled him up to score the surprise win, Ambrose did the same thing this week.

The Revival: Scott Dawson and Dash Wilder vs. WWE RAW Tag Team Champions: Chad Gable and Bobby Roode: Best match of the night as Roode and Gable worked hard, but Dawson and Wilder scored the win with the Shatter Machine.

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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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