Plenty of fun this week on RAW as R-Truth won the 24/7 title again and The Club dominated Ricochet and The Lucha House Party. Add in a new number one contender to the Universal Title in Seth Rollins and the return of Bray Wyatt and this was the best episode of RAW in months.
Matches:
Two Out of Three Falls: The Usos and Ricochet vs. WWE RAW Tag Team Champions: The Revival: Scott Dawson and Dash Wilder and Bobby Roode: After the teams traded pitfalls, Ricochet ended it with the 630. After the match, The Club arrived and took him out.
The Viking Raiders: Erik and Ivar vs. Vinny and James: Waste of time Susan courtesy of The Viking Experience.
Drew McIntyre vs. Cedric Alexander: Alexander stoke one with a Victory Roll counter on the Alabama Slam.
Samoa Joe vs. Finn Balor: Joe won with the Crucifix but after the match he went too far and Balor responded with the Coup De Grace. When it was over, Bray Wyatt returned to confront the Demon.
Zack Ryder vs. Mike Kanellis w/Maria: Kanellis fought with his wife about honor but quickly lost via Rough Ryder.
The Club: United States Champion AJ Styles, Karl Anderson and Luke Gallows vs. Lucha House Party: Kalisto, Lince Dorado and Gran Metalik: Styles won with the Calf Crusher and refused to break the hold.
Fatal 4 Way Elimination Match: Winner will challenge RAW Women’s Champion Becky Lynch at SummerSlam: Natalya Neidhart vs. Alexa Bliss vs. Naomi vs. Carmella: Natalya won with The Sharpshooter on Bliss and promised to kick Lynch’s ass.
Cross-Brand Battle Royal: Winner Fights Brock Lesnar for Universal Title at Summerslam: Seth Rollins vs. Randy Orton vs. Smackdown Tag Team Champion Big E. vs. Cesaro vs. Braun Strowman vs. Rey Mysterio vs. Baron Corbin vs. Sami Zayn vs. Bobby Lashley vs. Roman Reigns: This was a fun one and came down to Orton and Rollins. Orton went for the RKO, but Rollins hit the Curb Stomp and then threw Orton out.
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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