With Dynasty a few weeks away, AEW delivered some excellent Tag Team matches and set up a few big-time title matches.
Matches:
Katsuyori Shibata vs. Will Ospreay: Shibata took it all including the Tiger Driver but he couldn’t kick out of The Hidden Blade.
AEW World Tag Team Championship Tournament First Round Match: Private Party: Isiah Kassidy and Marq Quen vs. Young Bucks: Matthew and Nicholas Jackson: Tons of offense. Tables turned when Quen missed a 450 and walked right into an EVP Trigger.
AEW TBS Championship #1 Contender’s Match: Anna Jay vs. Kris Statlander vs. Skye Blue vs. Willow Nightingale: The Doctor Bomb gave Nightengale the win but Julia Hart crushed her with the TBS Title after the match.
AEW World Tag Team Championship Tournament First Round Match: Best Friends: Orange Cassidy and Trent Beretta w/Chuck Taylor vs. ROH Tag Team Champions The Kingdom: Matt Taven and Mike Bennett w/ROH International Champion Roderick Strong: Strong got involved but Taylor paid dividends as Berretta Rolled Up Bennett, countering the Stuff Piledriver.
Swerve Strickland w/Prince Nana vs. Konosuke Takeshita w/Don Callis: Great back and forth. Takeshita is amazing- ton of pop off the ropes, super fast, stiff strikes and some awesome suplex variations. Strickland though just never stops. His ring instincts are that of a navy veteran. Always knows where he is and is innovative. After a sexy corner DDT, Strickland hit a Sky Twister, but Takeshita wasn’t done yet. He nearly won with a Poisonrana and the Blue Thunder a segment later. Strickland then hit a Swerve Stomp on the apron, but Takeshita hit the Running Knee and nearly won. Takeshita kicked out of another Swerve Stomp but Swerve hit a Standing Swerve Stomp and then a Front Half Nelson Driver for the win.
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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