The lackluster card and clear promotion of Smackdown on RAW for the second week in a row proved that RAW is now the #3 show in the WWE, behind NXT and Smackdown.
Away from the beginning of a feud between Murphy and Seth Rollins and Mustafa Ali’s joining Retribution, RAW was passable entirely.
Matches:
WWE RAW Champion Asuka, Mandy Rose and Dana Brooke vs. Zelina Vega, Natalya and Lana: Rose won with the Running Knee and after the match, the Women’s Tag Team Champions hit the ring and Mia Jax put Lana through the announce table for the third time in four weeks.
Dominik Mysterio and Humberto Carrillo vs. Seth Rollins and Murphy: Murphy got the win for his team, but this was their last match as a team as an hour later, Rollins took out his former disciple.
Exhibition Match: Braun Strowman vs. Keith Lee: The match ended in a double count-out, but marked the beginning of what will be a fun feud.
Apollo Crews and Ricochet w/Mustafa Ali vs. The Hurt Business: Bobby Lashley and Shelton Benjamin w/MVP: Lashley got the win with the Hurt Lock, but later Ali told Lashley he wanted a piece.
WWE Women Tag Team Champions: Shayna Baszler and Nia Jax vs. The Riot Squad: Ruby Riott and Liv Morgan: The RiotSquad fought hard, but Baszler got the win with the Kurifuda Lock.
WWE Champion Drew McIntyre and WWE RAW Tag Team Champions: The Street Profits: Montez Ford and Angelo Dawkins vs. Randy Orton, Dolph Ziggler and Bobby Roode: Ford nearly pinned Orton with the Frog Splash and McIntyre was dishing out Claymores but Orton won with an RKO out of nowhere.
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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