Talk about a pivot. Following Vince McMahon’s departure, Brock Lesnar’s apparent ouster, CM Punk’s injury and Cody Rhodes’ interesting decision to give The Rock his title match with Roman Reigns for Mania 40, RAW is a much different place than it was just two weeks ago.
It’s too early to tell if it’s eventually going to get better, but as of right now, RAW is completely in flux.
Matches:
Fatal Four-Way Tag Team Championship Quailifier Match: The New Day: Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods vs. The Creed Brothers: Julius and Brutus vs. IMPERIUM: Ludvig Kaiser and Giovanni Vinci vs. DYI: Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa: A ton of action as DIY punched their ticket after they got the fall on Vinci.
Elimination Chamber Qualifying Match: Shayna Baszler vs. Becky Lynch: Baszler was tough but Lynch won with the Manhandle Slam.
The Alpha Academy: Akira Tozawa and Maxxine Dupri vs. The Viking Raiders: Ivar and Valhalla: A sexy Top rope Front Powerslam gave Ivar the win.
The Miz vs. JD McDonagh w/Dominik Mysterio: R-Truth got involved and made a hilarious mess of this, allowing Miz to get the win with the Skull-Crushing Finale.
WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions The Kabuki Warriors: Kairi Sane and Asuka vs. Katana Chance and Kayden Carter: Carter and Chance put up a fight but an InSane Elbow got the Warriors the win.
Bull Rope Match: Cody Rhodes vs. Shinsuke Nakamura: Rhodes got the win in spite of getting The Mist. Drew McIntyre destroyed him after the bell 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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