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TNA Lockdown: Raven vs. Jeff Hardy: (04.24.05) - Hardy came down the ramp holding two steel chairs in hand and he began swinging them early on in the match. Raven was the first one who ended up through a table in the early going. With momentum on his side, Hardy slammed Raven’s head into the cage and began rubbing his face against the unforgiving steel which cut him wide open. Blood began pouring down the face of Raven. Hardy then placed him on a table and went to the top of the cage where he attempted a Swanton Bomb, but ended up missing Raven who slid off and went crashing through the table.
Raven then fought back using a piece of the broken table to scrape at Hardy’s face. This match might have been the most brutal of the night with Raven wearing a crimson mask throughout. Raven then set up four tables, two double stacked. Both Raven and Hardy went to the top of the cage above the tables desperately trying to knock each other off. Hardy was able to get the edge and knock Raven onto the tables below. Jeff Hardy then stood on the top of the cage and dropped off right on to Raven sending both of them through the four tables below.
WINNER: Jeff Hardy via Pinfall
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TNA iMPACT: Raven & Abyss vs. Jeff Hardy & A.J. Styles : (04.23.05) - Forty-five minutes into the show our participants make their way to the ring. Apparently Raven is already in the ring as Abyss, then Jeff Hardy, and finally A.J. Styles are shown making their entrances.
We start off with Raven and Hardy circling each other in the ring. Just as the two men are about to make contact, Raven pulls a classic heel maneuver, as he is standing in front of Abyss who he slaps across the chest, essentially tagging himself out. Hardy gets the crowd to cheer for him as Abyss takes his time getting ready for the lock up. The two men briefly lock up, but Abyss quickly ends the exchange by delivering a knee to Hardy’s midsection. Abyss clubs Hardy in the back a few times before whipping him off the ropes and attempting a weak clothesline. Hardy is unfazed by the move and comes off the ropes at Abyss with a clothesline of his own. He gets the big man reeling, but not down, so he attempts another, still to no avail. As Hardy goes for his third clothesline off the ropes Abyss comes at him from behind and hits him with a knee to the midsection as he turns around. Abyss then attempts a knee-drop but Hardy gets out of the way in the nick of time. Hardy then gives Abyss a sort of sitting stunner and tags Styles.
Hardy executes the double leg drop to the groin on Abyss, who is flat on his back on the matt as A.J. enters the ring. A.J. comes off the ropes and delivers a knee-drop to the forehead of Abyss. Styles waits for Abyss to get to his feet, then punches him twice about the head before clotheslining him out of the ring.
Raven and Styles then go at it in the ring. Raven gets in the initial offense with a knee to Styles’ midsection, but Styles sends him off the ropes for a series of passes across the ring. A.J. displays his gymnastics skills by doing the splits as he leap frogs Raven on their first pass. He then goes down to the matt to avoid contact with Raven on their second pass. And on what would have been their third pass he drop-kicks Raven. As Raven gets to his feet A.J. hits him with a spinning back kick. A.J. then follows up his offense with a series of punches to Raven’s head. He then takes Raven from one side of the ring and slams him head first into the turnbuckle of the opposite corner. A.J. then punches Raven and whips him into the opposite turnbuckle. Raven attempts to make it up, but runs out of wind, stopping on the bottom rope. A.J. kicks him in the chest. A.J. then executes a springshot legdrop on Raven’s back and neck. A.J. then attempts to spring back into the ring from the top rope, but Abyss interferes. Abyss then takes it to A.J. outside the ring, clubbing him in the head and then throwing him into the ring steps. Abyss then throws A.J. back in the ring.
Raven makes a pin attempt but only gets a two count before A.J. kicks out of it. On his knees, Raven then crawls back over to his own corner and tags in Abyss.
Abyss enters the ring with a purposeful stride, daring A.J. to get up. Abyss grabs A.J. by the head and neck and slams him into the turnbuckle. Abyss then crosses the ring to execute a running splash on A.J. who is still in the corner. A.J. falls flat to the matt. Abyss picks A.J. up by the hair and then punches A.J. in the head, knocking him back down to the matt. Abyss then tags in Raven. Abyss holds A.J. as Raven hits him in the abdomen with a running kneelift.
Raven sends A.J. into the corner and then bounces off the ropes with a clothesline. Raven then goes for a pin, but gets only a two count.
Raven makes an attempt to go for a bodyslam, but A.J. reverses it and goes for a quick roll-up. A.J. gets about a 2 count out of this.
As A.J. gets to his feet Raven clotheslines him back down to the matt. Raven then drags A.J. back over to his side of the ring and tags in Abyss. Abyss hits A.J. and then clubs him in the back. Abyss then picks A.J. up off the matt only to punch him in the face -- knocking him back down to the matt. Abyss is going for a pin as we go for a commercial break.
Back from break, Abyss is holding A.J. down to the matt, wrenching on his neck. A.J. struggles to his feet, gets in a bit of offense on Abyss, goes to bounce off the ropes and come at Abyss with more offense, but Abyss catches him, takes him up in the air and slams him back down to the matt. Tenay claims that Abyss had Styles 8 feet up in the air. Abyss goes for the pin, but only gets a 2 count before the tag team veteran Hardy interrupts for the save.
Abyss tags in Raven. Raven puts A.J. in the corner and proceeds to repeatedly scuff him across the face with the sole of his boot. Raven then runs across the ring and knocks Hardy to the floor. Raven then tags in Abyss.
Abyss goes over to where A.J. is in the corner and proceeds to place his foot across Styles’ neck, essentially choking him. Raven is then seen outside the ring setting up a table against the guardrail, apparently Hardy is still down and out. Abyss continues to work on A.J. in the corner, kicking him in the chest. Outside the ring Raven instructs Abyss to throw Styles into the table. Abyss takes A.J. up on his shoulders, but A.J. fights out of it. A.J. then drop-kicks Abyss. Abyss falls to his butt on the canvas, but is well within the reach of Raven whom he tags in.
A.J. attempts to tag in the still absent Jeff Hardy to no avail. Raven goes to grab A.J. from behind, but A.J. catches him with a drop-kick. Hardy then struggles back up to his position on the apron. A.J. leaps across the ring for the hot tag.
Raven misses a punch as Hardy crosses the ring and knocks down Abyss. Hardy comes back off the ropes at Raven, knocking him down, he then comes off the ropes again to knock Abyss off the apron.
Hardy gets in a jawbreaker on Raven. Hardy then goes down to his knees so that A.J. can use him as a springboard to attempt to splash Abyss outside the ring, but Abyss catches him, slamming him back first into the ring post. Inside the ring, Hardy has Raven in the corner and is punching away at him. Abyss then comes into the ring to save his partner, but Hardy ducks out of the way and Abyss slams into Raven.
Raven then gets to his feet in the center of the ring, Hardy kicks him in the midsection, and takes him down with the twist of fate. Hardy then goes for the pin. He gets a two count before Abyss interferes for the save. Abyss and Hardy then go at it. Abyss whips Hardy into the ropes, telegraphing his attempt to duck whatever Hardy has to throw at him from a mile away. Hardy hit him with a drop-kick and comes off the ropes again, but this time Abyss comes back at him, catching him with the black-hole slam. Abyss goes for the pin. A.J. jumps off the top rope and breaks it up.
A.J. then sets Abyss up for a powerbomb, but Raven rushes into the ring, drop-kicking A.J., and otherwise foiling his offense. All four men are then in the ring at the same time. Raven and Abyss are the first to get to their feet. Raven goes after Jeff Hardy, clubbing him in the back repeatedly, and then restraining his arms behind his back as Abyss goes for the chain. Abyss wraps the chain around his hand, turns around and bounces off the ropes with the intention of hitting Hardy with a running punch. However, A.J. breaks this up, tackling Raven and Hardy just in time to receive Abyss’s chain-fisted punch. The referee then calls for the bell, calling the match a no contest.
In the mean time, Abyss goes outside the ring for a chair and Raven DDTs Jeff Hardy. Abyss sets up the chair in the corner between the middle and top ropes. Raven brings the chain over to Abyss and helps him ensure that the chair is in place. Abyss then whips A.J. Styles across the chest with the chain, to the shock and horror of Mike Tenay. Raven then throws Jeff Hardy out of the ring and through the table he had set up much earlier in the match. Meanwhile, Abyss wraps the chain around A.J.’s neck. Abyss then waits for A.J. to attempt to get to his feet. As A.J. stands up Abyss, from outside the ring, pulls the chain, sending A.J. flying headfirst into the chair set up in the corner. Raven stands in the ring, celebrating, doing the crucifix pose, while Abyss stands outside the ring doing his Abyss-grabbing-at-air hand gesticulations.
Hoards of backstage personnel crowd the ring and floor, attempting to attend to A.J. and Jeff. Paramedics are at ringside with a stretcher, attempting to get A.J. Styles on the stretcher, they just about have him on it when Abyss can no longer be contained by Security and jumps Styles. The show ends with Abyss and A.J. attempting to choke each other.
WINNERS: NO CONTEST
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NWA Florida: Raven vs. Lex Lovett: (04.11.05) - This match-up was for the NWA Florida Southern Heavyweight Championship held by Lex Lovett which Raven was challengign for as a representative of NWA Total Nonstop Action. However, Lovett succeeded in defeating Raven after hitting him with the title belt and the Lex Buster. After the bell Raven felt he was cheated by NWA Florida official Richie Rich and hit him with the Raven Effect DDT. The crowd gave Raven a rousing ovation.
WINNER: Lex Lovett via Pinfall
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World Pro Wrestling: Raven & NWO Sting vs. Konnan & La Parka: (04.10.05) - Mick Foley was the special guest referree for this unorthodoz match-up pitting the former AAA luchadores against the former NWO Sting Jeff Farmer and the leader of the Dead Pool and The Flock in Raven. Foley got a great cheap heat pop cutting a promo near the start. In the end, the luchadores triumphed over the enigmatic Raven and the doppleganger Sting.
WINNERS: La Parka and Konnan via Pinfall
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