The in-ring debut of David Finlay and arrival of Will Ospreay definitely made AEW a fun affair, but the fresh matches and great-in-ring action made it special.
Matches:
Interim AEW World Championship Qualifying Casino Battle Royal: Andrade el Idolo vs. Austin Gunn vs. Bobby Fish vs. Colten Gunn vs. “Red Death” Daniel Garcia vs. Dante Martin vs. Darby Allin vs. Eddie Kingston vs. Jake Hager vs. John Silver vs. Keith Lee vs. Konosuke Takeshita vs. Kyle O’Reilly vs. Lance Archer vs. Max Caster vs. Rey Fenix vs. “Absolute” Ricky Starks vs. Shane “Swerve” Strickland vs. Tony Nese vs. Wheeler YUTA vs. “Powerhouse” Will Hobbs: Kyle O’Reilly got the win to fight Jon Moxley later in the night for his shot at the Interim AEW Title at Forbidden Door, but this Battle Royal also set the scene for a few more mid-card battles down the road, particularly Kingston vs. Hager.
AEW All-Atlantic Championship Tournament First Round Match: Buddy Matthews vs. PAC: PAC won with the Black Arrow in a great back and forth encounter.
David Finlay vs. Adam “Hangman” Page: Finlay had an impressive debut, but got the hard-fought win with the Buckshot Lariat. After the match, Page said he wanted Okada at Forbidden Door, but Adam Cole said he wanted it.
AEW Women’s Champion Thunder Rosa vs. Marina Shafir: Rosa won a tough one with a Rollup but the crowd was dead for it. After the match, Shafir beat on Rosa before Toni Storm made the save.
Kyle O’Reilly vs. Jon Moxley: This was a war that saw both of these two performers beat the hell out of each other, but also counter submissions and strikes for almost the entire match. Mox eventually took over and won with the Regal Knee and the Paradigm Shift.
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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