Away from a fiery promo from Rey Mysterio and some great mic work from Seth Rollins and Randy Orton, this week’s RAW was largely passable. While many mid-card feuds were developed further, the show continues to fail to deliver anything but generic wrasslin’ thrills.
Matches:
Aleister Black vs. Seth Rollins: Black got a win with a Rollup, thanks to Humberto Carrillo, but after the match, Austin Theory and Buddy Murphy destroyed Black and Carrillo.
United States Champion Apollo Crews vs. Kevin Owens: This ended in a Double DQ after Andrade and Angel Garza got involved.
United States Champion Apollo Crews and Kevin Owens vs. Andrade and Angel Garza w/Zelina Vega: Garza continued to work on Owens’ knee, but Crews got the win with the Powerbomb variation.
Nia Jax vs. Kairi Sane: Jax won with the Leg Drop in an encounter that Sane proved she belonged in, but Jax dominated.
Billie Kay vs. NXT WOmen’s Tag Team Champion Nikki Cross: Away from the Rollins/Black encounter, this was the best match up until this point in the show that saw Kay steal a surprising win.
NXT Women’s Champion Charlotte Flair vs. RAW Women’s Champion Asuka: These two went back and forth before Nia Jax got involved to get the match throw out.
MVP w/ Bobby Lashley and Lana vs. WWE Champion Drew McIntyre: McIntyre beat MVP with the Claymore, but Lashley jumped in after the match and locked in the Full Nelson to end the show.
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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