How do you have a show and not feature any of your promotion’s champions? Although the IWGP Tag Team Champions were featured, this week’s Ring of Honor was the same old song- good in-ring action but not nearly enough storyline development, no cotext and even more pre-taped nonsense. At this point, the show is roughly three weeks behind reality, making it feel like ROH has thrown house show footage together and slapped on some commentary.
At this point, if you don’t have the desire to give fans something really special, why would anyone, besides the most dedicated ROH faithful, watch it?
Away from the drama between The Decade and Steve Corino, there wasn’t much to get excited about.
Matches:
IWGP Tag Team Champions Matt Taven and Michael Bennett with Maria Kanellis vs. Corey Hollis & Jonathan Gresham: Although Hollis and Gresham fought hard and hot some offense, this was a squash match that saw Taven and Bennett win with the Hail Mary Stuff Piledriver on Hollis.
Six-Man Mayhem: Caprice Coleman vs. Cheeseburger vs. Brutal Bob Evans vs. Moose vs. Moose w/ Stokely Hathaway vs. Silas Young vs. Dalton Castle w/ His Boys: Moose got the win with the Spear on Evans after a wild and crazy high-impact offense-filled match.
ACH vs. Bobby Fish: A high-flying and counter-filled extravaganza that saw Fish get the win with the Super Falcon Arrow.
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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