Awful Stranger Things collab aside (What purpose did this serve?) two title changes and Liv Morgan’s return to the ring made for a fun episode of RAW this week.
Matches:
WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions Kabuki Warriors: Asuka and Kairi Sane vs. Iyo Sky and Rhea Ripley: This was a fun opener as a Riptide and Moonsault gave the challengers the title.
Becky Lynch vs. WWE Women’s Intercontinental Champion Maxxine Dupri: Lynch put her legs on the ropes to secure the win and take the title back.
Liv Morgan w/Roxanne Perez vs. Lyra Valkyria w/Bayley: Valkyria focused way too much on Bayley and Rox on the outside, which allowed Morgan to win with Absolution.
Bron Breakker w/Paul Heyman vs. WWE World Champion CM Punk: Back and forth, add in a ref bump and a Stomp from Austin Theory and Punk was barely hanging on. Just when you thought The Vision was taking over, Penta, Dragon Lee and Rey Mysterio evened the odds. Breakker then missed a Spear, but he kicked out of the GTS. Breakker then kicked out of a Piledriver and after he went for another GTS, Breakker reversed into a Fujiwara Arm Bar, that Punk barely escaped out of. Punk then locked in the Anaconda Vice, but Breakker escaped it and git another Fireman’s Gutbuster and a Clothesline but Punk kicked out. Punk locked in The Vice again, but Heyman got involved. However, Breakker missed The Spear and the action spilled to the outside. Breakker then hit a Top Rope Elbow Drop on Punk, who was on the announce table. With the action back in the ring, Punk then countered the Spear with a knee and won with the GTS.
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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