Top-shelf matches and entertaining storyline fueled an wonderful episode of Monday Night RAW this week.
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5: Big E. Langston: Much like The Shield, Langston made a big time impact by eliminating a former World Champion. His relationship with Dolph Ziggler now over, Langston is no one’s heavy; he’s heavy all by himself.
4: Randy Orton: Grow a beard. Seems to be the key to success in the WWE if you’re not named John Cena. In one of his best matches on RAW this year, Orton made a young Fandango look solid and had great chemistry with the enigmatic rookie. After a slew of offense and excellent pacing, Orton won with the RKO. After a long dry spell, fans are responding to “The Viper” once again. A future WWE title reign seems like a definite possibility.
3: The Shield: This week on RAW, The Shield made “The World’s Strongest Statement.” Taking out Mark Henry is no easy task and although they had their work cut out for them at first, they eventually destroyed the behemoth. Despite their lack of solid in-ring work since their feud with Daniel Bryan and Kane concluded, this threesome is still worth believing in.
2: The Wyatt Family: The wild faction destroyed R-Truth this week and left a message for Kane. With haunting promo work and gritty, disgusting in-ring work, this is one of the more memorable stables in recent WWE history. And to think, they haven’t even gotten started yet.
1: Paul Heyman/CM Punk: A one of a kind promo from Heyman this week set the scene for what will be ultimately be remembered as the best angle of 2013. An encounter with Brock Lesnar all but guaranteed, this match will be the event of the summer.
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.
Top-shelf matches and entertaining storyline fueled an wonderful episode of Monday Night RAW this week.
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