The finale of the WWE Draft did little to bring excitement to a show desperate for some spice. Away from the crowning of new RAW Tag Team Champions in The Viking Raiders, this week’s episode was passable at best. Even the show’s end segment failed to deliver any real heat, when Seth Rollins burned down the Firefly Fun House set.
Matches:
RAW Women’s Champion Becky Lynch vs. Charlotte Flair: A fantastic match that Flair should have won, but a lapse in focus for a second allowed Lynch to use the Rollup for the win.
Mustafa Ali vs. Andrade w/Zelina Vega: Interference from Vega allowed Andrade to hit the Hammerlock DDT for the win.
WWE RAW Tag Team Champions Dolph Ziggler and Bobby Roode vs. The Viking Warriors: Erik and Ivar: Ziggler and Roode were solid, but they couldn’t overpower Erik and Ivar, who put them away with the Viking Experience to win the titles.
Aleister Black vs. Eric Young: Just like last week, Black got the win with The Dark Ritual.
Ricochet vs. Shelton Benjamin: Ricochet was jumping all over, but couldn’t put Benjamin away with the Lucha stuff, but finished him off with a Recoil out of nowhere.
Buddy Murphy vs. Cedric Alexander: Best match of the night that saw Murphy make a statement and win with Murphy’s Law.
WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions: The Kabuki Warriors: Asuka and Kairi Sane vs. Natalya Neidhart and Lacey Evans: This was a hard-fought match as Evans took out Sane with The Woman’s right, but Asuka scored the pinfall on Evans as the legal man.
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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