For the second week in a row, Capitol Wrestling fails to live up to the standard left behind from their awesome World War IV episode.
Much like last week’s episode, Capitol continued the mediocre promos but this time added two matches to the mix. Though Capitol presented this week with two matches, unfortunately, both were flat.
Steve Gibki vs. Chaute Kruger: In what should’ve been a squash match, Chaute Kruger actually went toe to toe with Steve Gibki. In an old fashion technical wrestling match, there was nothing that set either wrestler apart. It was confusing to see what looked like a jobber get a large amount of offense on Gibki. Late in the match, Gibki would get hot with a hard German Suplex and a series of strikes. Gibki would get the pinfall after landing a spinning reverse TKO on Kruger.
Women’s Champion Ariella Nyxx vs. Nyla Rose: In the better of the two stale matches, Nyxx, and Rose at least tried to give fans in the Capitol Arena a decent match. Rose basically dominated the match through and through with little offense from Nyxx. The moments when Nyxx would get some offense is when her manager Porsha Vaughn would get involved and cause a distraction. Throughout the whole match, Nyxx’s personal ring announcer Beautiful Buckley would chant her name obnoxiously through the microphone. When Rose went for a Powerbomb on Nyxx, Vaughn grabbed and pinned down Rose’s legs from the outside causing Nyxx to land on Rose with enough leverage for the three count win.
The show ended with a quick promo from Capitol Wrestling’s Heavyweight Champion Matt Macintosh. Macintosh expressed his impact on Capitol wrestling since becoming champ and his lack of interest in having to face KC Navarro in next week’s main event.Â
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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