A wonderful tribute show for Brodie Lee was the perfect way to end a 2020 that saw AEW never falter. While the WWE has stumbled and fallen throughout the year, AEW has been fun and consistent for 52 weeks.
Matches:
AEW Tag Team Champions The Young Bucks: Nick and Matt Jackson and Colt Cabana vs. Matt Hardy and Private Party: Isiah Kassidy and Marq Quen: Hardy wanted his team to use a chair, but they refused, allowing the Bucks to hit the Meltzer Driver and Cabana to win with the Superman Dive. After the match, The Acclaimed hit the ring, but SCU got involved and they were taken out.
Lance Archer, Stu Grayson and Evil Uno w/Jake Roberts vs. Eddie Kingston, Butcher and Blade: A fun back and forth again that saw Uno and Grayson hit their Double Team Finish Gory Bomb/Blockbuster for the win.
Hangman Page, Alex Reynolds and John Silver vs. MJF, Santana and Ortiz: Erick Redbeard hit the ring to even the odds as Wardlow got involved, but Page, Reynolds and Silver won with a Discus Lariat from Silver after Brodie Lee’s son hit MJF with a Kendo Stick.
Anna Jay and Tay Conti vs. Britt Baker and Penelope Ford w/Kip Sabian: Jay got the win with the Sleeper. After the match, Thunder Rosa attacked Baker.
Team Taz: Ricky Starks, Brian Cage and Powerhouse Hobbs w/Taz vs. 10, Cody Rhodes and Orange Cassidy: Starks got beat with the Finishers of all three of his opponents. Team Taz came back hard, but Darby Allin and Sting hit the ring to clean house 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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