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TNA iMPACT: Raven & Jeff Hardy Segment: (03.26.05) - 39 minutes into the show and back from commercial break, Raven and Jeff Hardy are somewhere backstage. We join them in mid conversation...
Hardy (gesturing): “Whoa-whoa-whoa..."
Raven: “That’s gotta hurt, huh?”
Hardy: “Yeah a little bit.”
Raven: “See, here’s what I’m thinkin’: you got your fans, I got mine — we’ve got our own separate little followings -- we pull something together (intertwines his fingers). We pull our followings together, the two of them -- what do you think?”
Hardy: “Dude, Raven, I’ve never got in your business, you’ve never gotten in mine... I mean, my fans are my fans, dude. I wrestle for my fans, you know, nobody else.”
Raven: “That’s cool, man. I can live with that, that’s cool.”
Hardy: “Thanks, for the compliment, man.
Raven: “That’s cool. That’s good.”
Hardy: “I’ll check you later.”
Raven (mockingly): “Check me later... your fans...”
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FWA: Raven vs. Alex Shane (03.26.05) - Alex Shane guns for revenge after his loss to Raven at TWC International Showdown but this time, with his precious FWA Title on the line in a best-of-one fall match. ‘The Showstealer’ was furious that he allowed Raven’s mind games to affect him on the biggest independent UK wrestling show of the year and was determined to set the record straight at The Dome. Shane won with the help of Styxx with some powder which backfired on him but in the end he took advantage. This was easily the best match of the night. Raven after the match thanked the UK fans and promoters for the respect during his tour and said he WILL return to the FWA and capture the title!
WINNER: Alex Shane via Pinfall
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3CW vs. IWF @ Middlesbrough, England, UK: (03.25.05) - 3CW Heavyweight Title Four Way: Ice XVII (c) defeats Alex Shane and Assassin and Raven (17:47)
WINNER: Ice XVII via Pinfall
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IWW: Raven & Sheamus O'Shaunessy vs. Alex Shane & Red Vinny (03.24.05) - Raven competed in Irish Whip Wrestling's National Easter Tour stop in Waterford as he continued on his international feud with FWA Champion Alex Shane, whom he bested at the International Showdown supercard. Raven's road to the FWA Title continued here as he once again bested Shane in tag team action alongside his partner Sheamus O'Shaunessy.
WINNERS: Raven & Sheamus O'Shaunessy via Pinfall
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BCW: Raven vs. Alex Shane (03.20.05) - The main event saw FWA and BCW Champion Alex Shane take on former ECW, WCW and WWE veteran and now TNA star, Raven. Before the match, Raven got on the microphone and asked Alex Shane how he had secured the services of REM's Michael Stipe as his manager, Raven was actually referring to Charles Boddington. Raven grabbed one of Shane's title belts and attempted to swirl it around his body like a kendo stick which had the crowd in fits of laughter. Raven then placed both belts on a young child at ringside but Boddington swiped them from the child much to the crowd's displeasure. Moments later, when Raven sent Shane to the outside of the ring, the ex-ECW Champion grabbed the title belts and once again gave the young fan a treat when he draped them over the youngster's shoulders. Raven and Shane brawled all over the venue and Raven smashed Shane's head into a wall and then nailed him with a russian leg sweep into the same wall. Raven sent Shane's forehead into a table and then carried the table into the ring. Raven set up a steel chair in the ring and hit his trademark drop toe hold sending Shane face first into the steel. Shane repaid the favour moments later but Raven still managed to hit a third drop toe hold of the match towards the end. Boddington tried to get involved a number of times but every time he did it either backfired or Raven knocked him into next week. Raven has proved during his illustrious career that he is made of tough stuff and he showed it again when it took not one but two big boots from Shane before The Showstealer could get the pinfall victory. Raven got some measure of revenge after the match when he smashed Shane into a steel reinforced table and then hit The Raven Effect on Shane. The table was still intact so Raven decided to throw the referee into it as well. After Raven threw Shane into the table again and it only cracked a little bit, Raven grabbed the microphone and informed the fans that the table was "Scottish tough". Chants of"one more time"; were enough to persuade Raven to finish the job and he hurled Shane into the table one more time and this time it finally gave way as Shane lay unconscious in the corner of the ring.
WINNER: Alex Shane via Pinfall
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FWA: Raven vs. Alex Shane (03.19.05) - Raven's highly anticipated return to the UK and FWA begins tonight at FWA International Showdown as he takes on Alex Shane the FWA Champion in a non title encounter. Raven, being the master of mindgames, used his mastery of psychology and a former association from his ECW Next in Mick Foley to gather the victory over Shane via the dreaded DDT that has come to be known as The Raven Effect.
WINNER: Raven via Pinfall (12:42)
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UCW: Raven & CM Punk vs. Gangster & American All-Star (03.18.05) - Raven and his former Gathering protege and sometimes rival CM Punk teamed up in Newport, Wales in the UK ina hardcore tag team battle against the team of American All-Star and Gangster. A fun brawl was had with Raven even spanking All-Star's valet after the match-up. Ultimately, Raven's team triumphs via The RavenEffect.
WINNERs: Raven/CM Punk via Pinfall
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TNA Destination X PPV: Raven vs. Dustin Rhodes: (03.13.05) - This rivalry has reached its peak in TNA. After losing the last encounter at Against All Odds, Dustin Rhodes wanted a rematch against Raven in a match he is all too familiar with, a bull rope match. Even with this match up favoring Rhodes, Raven was not ready to call it quits with the Big Texan. Steel chairs got involved in the early going with each superstar getting their own shots.
Rhodes experience in this type of encounter factored in when he took control for the majority of the match. Rhodes went for the bulldog finisher early on but Raven countered it. However, Raven was not able to block another bulldog from Rhodes which left his face planted in a steel chair. Dustin then covered Raven for the pin and got the victory, but before he could celebrate, Team Canada w/D’Amore attacked him and started to beat the life out of him until AMW came in for the save.
Winner: Dustin Rhodes via Pinfall
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EWR: Raven vs. Paranoid Jake Matthews: (03.12.05) - Raven made a special appearance for EWR in Montreal facing one of the local wrestlers, Paranoid Jake Matthews, in this hard fought encounter, described by many as awesome. In the end, Raven felt the loss in this match-up after a shovel shot to the nether regions and his opponent picked up the cheap win afterwards.
WINNER: Paranoid Jake Matthews via Pinfall
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TNA iMPACT: Raven/Abyss vs. Mikey Batts/Cassidy Reilly: (03.11.05) - The show opens with Raven & Abyss vs. Cassidy Reilly and Mikey Batts. Abyss comes to the ring first, then Raven, then Cassidy Reilly (still displaying his taped broken fingers), and finally Mikey Batts (who is quite enthusiastic).
Batts and Reilly charge the ring to pose on the turnbuckles, as they ascend Raven and Abyss knock them down. The bell rings and the match officially starts. Abyss is the legal man, and he slams Batts into the corner, and then chops him across the chest. Abyss then sends Batts across the ring into the opposite corner. Abyss attempts to follow that up with a running tackle, but Batts puts his knees up and thwarts the move. Batts then comes back at Abyss, but Abyss counters by catching him and slamming him down to the canvas.
Raven then tags himself in by slapping Abyss across the back. There is a moment of confused conflict between the two. Any potential blow-up is avoided, however, when Batts tries to catch Raven with a surprise roll-up. Batts gets a one count.
Raven gets to his feet first. He hits Batts with a running clothesline. Raven picks Batts up by the hair and drags him toward the ropes. He then Russian leg-sweeps Batts into the corner. Raven then throws Batts outside of the ring, he then administers a Russian leg-sweep into the guardrail. Raven throws Batts back in the ring. Raven again grabs Batts by the hair and shoves him into the corner, again executing the Russian leg-sweep on Batts into the corner. Raven then hits Batts with a running knee-lift. Raven is about to go for another one when Abyss tags himself in.
The momentary exchange of glares between Raven and Abyss over the tag enables Batts to get to his corner to tag in Reilly. As Raven is exiting the ring Reilly charges at Abyss. Reilly hits Abyss with some punches, Raven comes back into the ring to run interference for his partner but receives a couple right hands from Reilly for his effort. Reilly goes back on the offense with Abyss, punching and kicking him. As Reilly does this Raven runs the ropes and charges at Reilly from behind with a drop-kick. Raven then kicks Reilly out of the ring.
As Raven is following Reilly out of the ring Mikey Batts has climbed to the top turnbuckle in an attempt to mount some defense against Abyss. He springs off the top turnbuckle only to have Abyss catch him again. Abyss lifts Batts over his head and hurls him out of the ring. Raven is then seen going after Batts as Reilly has been shoved back into the ring. Abyss attempts to take Reilly up for a backbreaker, but Reilly escapes it. Reilly then shoots off the ropes at Abyss, but Abyss catches him for the black-hole slam. Abyss hooks the leg for the pin and gets the three count. Meanwhile, outside on the floor Raven had Batts in the ankle lock submission. At the sound of the bell Raven relinquishes the hold, entering the ring to climb to the second turnbuckle to do the crucifix pose. Meanwhile Abyss does his Abyss-gesticulations (the thing that looks like pantomiming the act of tearing paper). As the two men celebrate Jeff Hardy then comes on the monitor to taunt and bait Abyss.
Winners: Raven and Abyss by pinfall.
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