The build for Day One continued as the RAW Creative Team scrambled to get Bobby Lynch in the middle of the WWE Title picture and make sure viewers still cared about a stale Liv Morgan/Becky Lynch feud.
Matches:
WWE RAW Tag Team Champion Riddle w/Randy Orton vs. Otis w/Chad Gable: Riddle was dominant at times, but Otis won with a Popup Powerslam variation for the solid but still surprising win.
Bianca Belair vs. DouDrop: Belair won clean with the 450 in a solid encounter that may not mark the end of this feud.
Bobby Lashley w/MVP vs. Kevin Owens: Weird. Owens tapped out to the Hurt Lock before it was even fully applied.
Finn Balor and United States Champion Damian Priest vs. Dolph Ziggler and Robert Roode: Wow, miscommunication between Balor and Priest allowed the Dirty Dawgs to pick up the surprising win.
WWE Women’s Tag Team Champion Zelina Vega w/Carmella vs. Rhea Ripley w/Nikki ASH: Vega was able to get the quick win after miscommunication between Ripley and ASH.
Bobby Lashley w/MVP vs. Seth Rollins: Owens had a plan all along. He hit the ring and beat on Rollins to give Rollins the win via DQ. However, Adam Pearce and Sonya Deville had the match restarted as a no DQ match. Once that started, Lashley won with the Spear.
Bobby Lashley w/MVP vs. WWE Champion Big E.: Seth Rollins and Kevin Owens got involved but it was MVP’s interference that allowed Lashley to get the win and earn a shot at the WWE Title at Day One.
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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