WWE RAW Coverage: Lesnar Meows, RAW Sputters

The New Era of RAW continued this week, but unlike last week, there was an absence of sizzle. Even with Brock Lesnar on the show and a wild ending with Randy Orton RKOing “The Beast” outta nowehere, as well as a staredown between Finn Balor and Seth Rollins, there wasn’t that frenetic level of excitement the show needed after a solid show last week.

With no real top of the card champion and a weak opening segment, this week’s RAW never got on track.

If there was ever a RAW to miss, this was one.

Matches:

Enzo Amore and WWE Women’s Champion Sasha Banks vs. Charlotte Flair and Chris Jericho: Flair got the win with the Natural Selection after Dana Brooke hit the ring and and caused a distraction. After the match, Jericho hit Amore with the Codebreaker but Colin Cassady hit the ring to send Jericho away.

Braun Strowman vs. Corey Hollis: Strowman got the squash win with the Reverse Chokeslam.

The Shining Stars: Epico and Primo vs. The Golden Truth: Goldust and R-Truth: Goldust held his own while R-Truth played Pokemon Go on the apron. Epic eventually got the win with the Rollup after R-Truth dropped his phone and went to get it, rather than help his partner.

United States Champion Rusev w/Lana vs. Mark Henry: Rusev got a pretty thorough win with the Standing Side Kick and Accolade. After the match Rusev and Roman Reigns locked it up.

Darren Young w/Bob Backlund vs. Titus O’Neil: Young was in control, but O’Neil got the win with the Rollup and a handful of tights.

Mia Jax vs. Arielle Monroe: Jax got the squash win with the Fireman’s Carry Front Slam.

Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson vs. The WWE Tag Team Champions The New Day: Kofi Kingston and Big E. Langston: Anderson got Rolled Up rather quickly, but The Club beat on all three members of The New Day to send the Tag Team Champions a message.

Cesaro vs. Sheamus: A fun and fast back and forth but Cesaro got the win after a Springboard Elbow and The Neutralizer.

Jinder Mahal vs. Heath Slater: Mahal got the quick win with the Savate Kick to earn a RAW roster spot.

Sami Zayn vs. Seth Rollins:Zayn was on his game, but after he missed the Helluva Kick, Rollins won with the Pedigree.

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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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