With Crown Jewel just days away, the RAW brand put the finishing touches on their side of the show, but did little to build any real excitement for the event.
Matches:
NXT North American Champion Dominik Mysterio w/ WWE Women’s World Champion Rhea Ripley and JD McDonagh vs. Ricochet: Lots of back and forth as Mysterio held his own but resorted to a Rollup and a handful of tights for the win.
Alpha Academy: Chad Gable and Otis Dozovic w/Maxinne Dupri and Akira Tozowa vs. Brutus and Julius Creed w/Ivy Nile: The Alpha Academy is always solid, but The Creeds stepped up and got the win with their awesome finisher on Otis to win their RAW debut.
Imperium: Giovanni Vinci and Ludvig Kaiser vs. DIY: Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa: After Gunther got in Miz’s face, DIY got an impressive win over Imperium. This appears to just be the beginning of this feud.
Candice LeRae vs. Xia Li: Li won by ref stoppage with a vicious kick that might have actually hit LeRae.
WWE World Champion Seth Rollins vs. JD McDonagh: Rollins got it done with The Pedigree and The Stomp while Damian Priest watched ringside.
WWE Women’s Tag Team Champion Chelsea Green w/Piper Niven vs. Natalya Niedhart: The costumes were on-point and Green scored the win thanks to some help from Niven.
Damian Priest vs. Sami Zayn: A solid main event saw Priest win via DQ after Jey Uso Super Kicked Finn Balor and then Judgment Day and Cody Rhodes and Uso all got involved.
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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