The three-hour go-home show for Full Gear was chock full of in-ring action.
Matches:
Bobby Lashley vs. Ricochet: Lashley won with a Spear to gain the #1 spot in the AEW National Championship Casino Gauntlet Match.
Josh Alexander and The Young Bucks: Matt and Nick Jackson vs. SkyFlight: Dante Martin, Darius Martin and Scorpio Sky: Alexander got the submission win with the Ankle Lock on Dante.
“Speedball” Mike Bailey vs. Shelton Benjamin: The Super Kick put Bailey away, allowing Benjamin to win and gain the #2 spot in the AEW National Championship Casino Gauntlet Match.
Death Riders: Claudio Castagnoli and Jon Moxley vs. Orange Cassidy and Roderick Strong: Bully Choke from Moxley put Cassidy away. The Death Riders continue to get wins when they need to.
AEW Women’s World Tag Team Championship Tournament First Round Match: Alex Windsor and Riho vs. Timeless Love Bombs: Mina Shirakawa and Toni Storm: Lots of action here, but Storm won with Storm Zero.
AEW World Champion Hangman Page vs. AEW World Trios Champion Katsuyori Shibata: Page got the win but Samoa Joe was on commentary selling their match at Full Gear throughout.
Women’s World Tag Tournament: TayJay: Anna Jay and Tay Melo vs. Megan Bayne and Marina Shafir: TKO?! Yes. Shafir and Bayne are dangerous.
Double Jeopardy: AEW Unified Champion Kazuchika Okada vs. CMLL Trios Champion Máscara Dorada: Great match. Probably the best on TV this week. Okada won to earn the Callis family a shot at the CMLL straps.
ROH Women’s World Television Championship Unification Match: Mercedes Mone vs. Red Velvet: Of course Mone won more gold and afterward she locked in the Statement Maker on Kris Statlander.
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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