WWE RAW Coverage: Ambrose Ready for Rollins

June 9, 2015 Patrick Hickey Jr. Music, Professional Wrestling 0

In a decent primer for Money in the Bank, this week’s episode of Monday Night RAW was solid in that it teased every matchup and gave everyone an opportunity to shine one last time before the event.

With a beefy card and just enough building for the future (Rusev’s depression angle is pretty awesome, while Ryback’s growth as a fan favorite has been pretty shocking) this week’s RAW was possibly a momentum turner, but only once the smoke clears on MITB will we be able to tell if all the drama this week was worth it.

Matches:

NXT Champion Kevin Owens vs. Adrian Neville: Owens spent a ton of time mocking John Cena, who was ringside and Neville capitalized every opportunity he could. At the same time, Owens hit power moves, including a modified Pump-Handle Neckbreaker and strikes and stayed in the match. After the German Suplex, Neville hit the move again and nearly regained the NXT Championship. With Owens down, Neville went for the Red Arrow but ended up hitting Owens with the Super Kick before going for the move again. After Owens countered, he hit the Pop-Up Powerbomb for the win.

Divas Champion Nikki Bella vs. Summer Rae: Bella locked Raw, but the challenger was in control a lot longer than expected. Rae even scored a near-fall with a Spinning Side Kick. But all it took was the Rack Attack and Bella made sure she kept the title.

Randy Orton vs. Sheamus: Both former champions traded signature moves and strikes in a tough and longer-than-expected contest. Orton got cooking with the Powerslam, Exploder Suplex and his Second Rope DDT, but Sheamus countered the RKO before The Viper countered the Brogue Kick and the action spilled to the outside. Just like last week, Sheamus went for the step chair, but this time, Orton got the best of the Celtic Warrior, hitting him with the chair to give Sheamus the DQ win. After the bell, Orton threw Sheamus through the ring steps and then finished him off with an RKO in the middle of the ring.

Dolph Ziggler vs. Kane: After Ziggler became too concerned with Lana and Rusev on the outside, Kane got the win with the Chokeslam.

Los Matadores w/El Torito vs. Luke Harper and Erick Rowan: Wow. Rowan and Harper got the win with the 3D.

WWE Tag Team Champion Big E. Langston w/Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods vs. Titus O’Neil w/Darren Young: Langston got the win with the Big Ending, thanks to interferences from Kingston and Woods- in a match that O’Neil dominated.

WWE Tag Team Champion Kofi Kingston w/Big E. Langston and Xavier Woods vs. Roman Reigns: The numbers game caught up to Reigns on several occasions thanks to Woods and Langston. However, Reigns got the win after he nailed Kingston with the Superman Punch following a missed top rope attack from Kingston.

WWE World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins vs. Joey Mercury and Jamie Noble: Thanks to help from Dean Ambrose and Kane, J & J got in much more offense than anyone expected. Noble got in a nice slew of moves and Mercury eventually got the win after Ambrose gave Rollins back the title and caused the champion to get distracted. After the bell, Rollins was just happy to have his title back, but Ambrose hit the ring and hit the Dirty Deeds- and took the title back.

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About Patrick Hickey Jr. 14268 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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