Check out our 2019 Battle Club Pro Power Rankings to see who shined the brightest for the indie promotion this year.
Honorable Mentions:
MV Young: Despite still being a relative newcomer to the brand, Young has opened up some eyes with his ability on the mic and fortitude in the ring.
Diamante: Although she didn’t win gold in the promotion in 2019, she’s a workhorse and someone absolutely capable of being the face of the Icons Division.
Harlow O’Hara: Despite losing the title in 2019, she was one of the best workers in the promotion all year.
5: Darius Carter: It doesn’t matter who Carter is in the ring with, he delivers.
4: Sea Stars: With a win over LAX, you can make the argument that these two were the best Tag Team in all of BCP in 2019. No easy task.
3: Matt Mcintosh: He’s the best worker every time he’s on a BCP card and his feud with Darius Carter is the best work in the promotion to date.
2: Anthony Bowens: The Battle Club Pro Franchise champion is indeed a Five-Tool Player and it’ll be interesting where he takes his reign in 2020.
1: Tasha Steelz: She’s arrogant in the ring, but consistently backs it up. Simply put, she made Women’s Wrestling in BCP the main draw of the company through her excellent in-ring feuds with Harlow O’Hara and Diamante in 2019.
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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