WWE RAW Coverage: Lacking Real Labor

September 3, 2014 Patrick Hickey Jr. Professional Wrestling 0

This week’s RAW was a slow, plodding mess. There wasn’t one “real” match either, as every contest was full of interference and nonsense. With Nikki Bella’s segments throughout the show and Paul Heyman’s promo on Cena for his rematch against Brock Lesnar for the WWE World Heavyweight title at Night of Champions as the only real angle/storyline development, this week’s episode of RAW lacked any real excitement.

Matches:

Antonio Cesaro and The Miz w/Damien Sandow vs. Intercontinental Champion Dolph Ziggler and United States Champion Sheamus: A decent match that saw Sandow interfere and get hit with the Zig-Zag. When Ziggler turned around Miz finished him off with the Skull-Crushing Finale.

Eva Marie, Rosa Mendez and Cameron vs. Layla, Summer Rae and Naomi: The match never got started and ended as all six Divas beat on each other.

The Big Show and Mark Henry vs. Luke Harper and Erick Rowan: This was Power vs. Power as Show and Henry traded blows with the younger and faster, but still gritty and strong Rowan and Harper. With Alexander Rusev and Lana on the outside watching Henry, there was an extra level of intrigue here. Just when Henry seemed to have the match ironed out with Harper in position for the World’s Strongest Slam, Rusev kicked him in the face to get the match thrown out.

Jack Swagger w/Zeb Colter vs. Curtis Axel: With Bo Dallas waiting on the ramp, Swagger quickly won with the Patriot Lock. After the bell, Dallas had some more fun at Swagger’s expense.

Titus O’Neil w/heath Slater vs. Adam Rose: After Slater got taken out by Rose’s “Bunny,” Rose won with the School Boy.

Alexander Rusev w/Lana vs. Zack Ryder: Samoan Drop, Super Kick, Accolade. Game over. After the match, Henry came back to get some revenge, but Rusev got out of the ring.

WWE Tag Team Champion Jimmy Uso w/ Jey Uso vs. Goldust w/Stardust: The best singles match of the night and the only one that had a decent pace and storytelling. After some back and forth, Goldust got the win with The Final Cut. After the bell, Goldust and Stardust worked on Jey Uso’s already injured knee some more.

John Cena vs. Chris Jericho and Roman Reigns vs. Seth Rollins, Randy Orton and Kane: A good match as all six competitors got to deliver some offense, even though Jericho sold quite a bit more. After Cena took out Kane with the Attitude Adjustment, Cena tagged in Reigns, who got the win with the Spear on the Big Red Machine. After the bell, Cena hit the AA on Rollins on the announce table.

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About Patrick Hickey Jr. 14262 Articles
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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