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SWF: Raven vs. Joey Morton: (05.29.05) - Raven battled Joey Morton for the Superstars of Wrestling Federation in West Virginia. Raven defeated Morton in this encounter.
WINNER: Raven via Pinfall
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SWF: "The Franchise" Shane Douglas & Raven vs. X-Pac and Rick Steiner: (05.27.05) - This match-up was originally scheduled to be Douglas v. Rick Steiner, but Raven ran in to help former ECW crony Douglas cheat in his match-up against the former Dogface Gremlin, which led to X-Pac coming out to even the odds against his recent TNA enemy in Raven and turn this into a 2 on 2 impromptu tag team match-up. The tag team specialists in all 4 men [all being former world tag team champions in various promotions] took this to the extreme, attenpting 2 sentons onto X-Pac on a table to relive their recent match-up at Hard Justice. The table didn't break however and ultimately Raven was pinned. This incensed Raven who then tried to put the referee through the table, which still didn't give and Raven called out any fat guy from the crowd, which bought out a 300 plus DJ who Raven whipped into the table which then was finally obliterated.
WINNERS: X Pac/Steiner via Pinfall
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UXW: Raven [w/Simply Luscious] vs. The Sandman: (05.21.05) - Raven challenged his long time nemesis The Sandman in this precursor to their match-up at Hardcore Homecoming. The match was set up as a cage match, but at the last moment, the cage hadn't arrived and the idea was to do it as a Raven's Rules match. Raven tried to balk at doing a Raven's Rules match with the idea that Sandman would get DQ'd for his extreme antics. Sandman caned the first referee to prevent that from happening as the bell hadn't rung. Raven brought out a second referee as a heel and he too was taken out. Mick Foley, the former member of Raven's Nest in ECW and former crony of both Raven and Sandman served as a special referee. Raven also attempted to do a Socko with a black sock over his hand but it had no effect on Foley, who instead bit his fingers. Ultimately, Sandman got the win over the heelish Raven in this encounter.
WINNER: The Sandman via Pinfall
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TNA Hard Impact PPV: Raven vs. Sean Waltman: (05.15.05) - This match was originally scheduled to be Raven vs. Jeff Hardy in a "Clockwork Orange House of Fun" match-up, Jeff Hardy, however, missed his flight, so the former X-Pac, Sean Waltman stepped up and challenged Raven.
35 minutes into the pay-per-view we go backstage to Terry Taylor who has Raven standing by.
Taylor: ”A lot of things happening here at Hard Justice. Jeff Hardy is not here. Now the House of Fun match is your match, Raven, and you had something to prove to Jeff Hardy, are you going to take this out on somebody else? Or are you just going to get your hand raised and walk away?”
Raven: “I am so disgusted that Jeff Hardy didn’t have the cahones to show up in a match. The man is a coward, the man is disgusting, the man is pathetic. I beat him so unmercifully last time — going through the tables didn’t hurt me — but it hurt him bad enough that he’s not even here tonight. And who do they get as a replacement?—X-Pac. You know, I don’t care who I have to hurt, I don’t care how I have to hurt ‘em because I’ve been held back too long. The Director of Authority — you hear him putting over Tito Ortiz? Who cares about Tito Ortiz? I should be the one he’s talking about. I am the biggest star. And I listen to Team Canada about how they hunt in packs? I don’t hunt in a pack. I hunt by myself, alone. And I will take on any three, four, five people as long as I get a chance to stick a finger in the eye, and hook it, and pull their eye out and then I’m going to stick it in my mouth and eat it. I’m going to rip somebody’s head off, I’m going to spit down their brain — I am going to hurt someone, Terry Taylor. How about you? Maybe I should hurt you tonight, Terry Taylor.”
Taylor: (shakes his head no) ”I’m retired.”
Raven: “It doesn’t matter—you’re retired, you're old, you're crippled. X-Pac is in the prime of his condition. So, tonight, X-Pac, I will make sure that you leave the building in so much pain, in so much agony, that you’re forced to be stretchered out, and they’re going to have to get a stretcher for the stretcher, they’re going to load you in an ambulance and then I’m going to blow that up. Because I am going to make sure that you remember that there is one reason why I am the most dangerous man in wrestling. I am a human cancer. And I am going to hurt somebody. So it is written, so it shall come to pass, quote the Raven nevermore.”
Raven then does the crucifix in front of Taylor.
Waltman jump-started the match with chops and then a trash-can shot to Raven's head. He then dropped Raven into the trash can with a Russian leg sweep. Raven and Waltman both bled early. Waltman sidestepped a leg sweep attempt and then grabbed the chair and threw it at Raven. They both went for spin kicks at once and both missed. Waltman then took Raven down and hit a Bronco Buster. Waltman put Raven on a table at ringside and then pounded away at his forehead. Waltman flipped off of the top rope onto Raven, crashing them through the table he was on. The crowd chanted "holy shit." Raven surprised Waltman in the ring with a DDT out of nowhere for a near fall at 8:15. They brawled up the rampway. Raven threw Waltman off edge in cramped quarters onto a table five feet below. Raven went for a pin, but Waltman lifted his shoulder. Raven dragged Waltman back to the ringside area. He rammed his head into the stairs, then looked for a foreign object. He couldn't find it at first, so he went back to Waltman and kicked him in the head. Raven finally found handcuffs and attached Waltman to the ringpost. He then hit him with a kendo stick. Raven asked Waltman if he had enough. Waltman said, "Give me more, you pussy!" Dusty Rhodes walked out and ordered Waltman to be uncuffed. Luckily the referee happened to have the key. Raven didn't know Waltman had been uncuffed. He surprised Raven with a kick and then a chairshot to the back. Waltman used a staplegun in Raven's forehead. Raven backdropped a charging Waltman into the side of the cage. The cage wall collapsed to the mat and Waltman landed on it on the floor. Raven then scored the pin.
WINNER: Raven via Pinfall (13:22)
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TNA iMPACT: Raven Promo/Vignette: (05.06.05) - 22 minutes into the show we go somewhere backstage where Raven is brooding.
Raven: “Jeff Hardy, I wanna like you, really I do. You’re reckless, and your strange, and like my heroes Keith Richards, Joe Frazier, Jake Roberts, you’re willing to take 3 just to give 1. But... but... but... as perhaps the greatest military strategist of all time, Napoleon once said, 'Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.' (breathes deeply) And unfortunately for you, the glory in my future means extinction in yours. I know it’s sad. Bad choice, perhaps? But bad choices don’t seem so bad when we’re making them. Until you look back and wonder why. Well, I stopped wondering when I was 12, and I started hurting people. Heh-heh, understand this: I want to care. I want to care. But I’ve done and seen so much. I’ve hurt, and beat, and battered -- not just opponents, but family, friends, even loved ones. That caring is a luxury I can no longer afford. Understand this: there is no salvation for me. Where I’m going, the only way to advance is to cause more pain, inflict more damage, and cause more suffering. I know who and what I am. I live a life without illusions. And unfortunately, illusions are the one thing that comfort us all. I am the living, breathing embodiment of the Khmer Rouge. I am the most ruthless, unforgiving person on the planet. I am a human cancer. I am a killer, and a warrior, and a slaughterer of souls that even God, Allah, and Buddha, working overtime are having a hard time keeping score. Jeff, I’m sorry, but some must die so that others may live. I have a legacy to fulfill. And you are standing in the path of my immortality. If I could, I want to comfort you with the words that my evil abusive father said to me, he said: ‘this is going to hurt me a lot worse than it’s going to hurt you.’ But that would be a lie. And we both know it. So, Jeff Hardy, May fifteenth, prepare to be terminated with extreme prejudice. So it is written, so it shall come to pass, quote the Raven, nevermore.”
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