Don’t let the beefy card fool you. This week’s Monday Night RAW, the first after TLC, was a dud. The mid-card is broken, most of the title divisions are flat. RAW is barely watchable. Away from Alexa Bliss and Randy Orton, there’s nothing sexy on RAW right now.
Matches:
Dana Brooke and Mandy Rose vs. Nia Jax and Shayna Baszler: Baszler won with the Kurifuda Clutch in a physical encounter that began with Charlotte Flair and Asuka discussing their Women’s Tag Team Title win at TLC.
Angel Garza vs. Drew Gulak: A short but sweet match that saw Garza win with the Wing Clipper.
T-Bar w/Mustafa Ali, Mace and Slapjack vs. Ricochet: T-Bar AKA Dominik Dijakovic got the win with Feast Your Eyes thanks to interference from his buddies.
MVP and United States Champion Bobby Lashley w/RAW Tag Team Champions Shelton Benjamin and Cedric Alexander vs. Riddle and Jeff Hardy: The Hurt Business did plenty of talking and then backed it up as Lashley won with the Hurt Lock on Hardy.
Gran Metalik w/Lince Dorado vs. Jaxson Ryker w/Elias: This was a quick one that saw Ryker win with a Chokeslam.
WWE RAW Women’s Tag Team Champions: Asuka and Charlotte vs. Peyton Royce and Lacey Evans: Flair got the easy win with the Figure-Eight.
WWE Champion Drew McIntyre, Keith Lee and Sheamus vs. The Miz, John Morrison and AJ Styles w/Omos: This was hardcore with kendo sticks and people going through tables, but Sheamus got the last laugh as Lee won with the Spirit Bomb, but Big Red took him out with a Brogue Kick 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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