WWF Smackdown: Hardcore Championship Match: Raven vs. Jeff Hardy: (12.28.00) - The new Hardcore Champion -- Raven -- walked to the ring and talked about how he left Steve Blackman and Bob Holly lying on RAW, thanks to what he called the "Raven effect." Raven seemed disgusted about having to make his first title defense againt Jeff Hardy on SmackDown! The match was intense and brutal -- at one point, Jeff even brought a ladder into the ring! Raven would retain the title, however, following a DDT. After the match, Raven left through the crowd, obviously concerned about the 24-7 rule.
WINNER and STILL WWF Hardcore Champion: Raven via Pinfall
WWF RAW is WAR: Hardcore Championship Match: Steve Blackman vs. Hardcore Holly vs. Raven: (12.25.00) - Triple threat match for the belt. Raven comes out to brand new theme music and a Batman: Dark Victory shirt with a Dark Knight design. Raven brings a huge can of plunder with him. Ross notes that the 24-7 rule for the Hardcore title has been shelved because no one wants to get near Blackman. Total garbage match with the usual hardcore weapons shots. The men spill out into the crowd and pelt each other with trash can lids. They fight all the way to the back where a couple of bleached blonde guys get in the way, so the contestants throw them into a dumpster. The fight spills outside the arena where Blackman throws Raven down some stairs. Blackman suplexes Holly onto the hood of a car for a quick three.
WINNER: Steve Blackman via pinfall [retains WWF Hardcore title]
After the match, Raven runs up and nails Blackman with a 2x4 and gets his own pinfall and ref to make him the new champion, via 24/7 rule.
WINNER and NEW WWF Hardcore Champion: Raven via pinfall
WWF Jakked/Metal: Raven vs. Romeo Bliss: (12.23.00) - This match was all Raven. He dominated the early parts of the match when he was pummeling Bliss in the corner. Raven then sent bliss to the outside, where he followed it up with his patented Russian leg sweep into the ring barrier. Back in the ring, Raven applied a neck grapevine submission, but Bliss made it to the ropes. Raven whipped Bliss into the corner, and he followed it up with a clothesline. He whipped him into the corner a second time, and this time followed it up with a spear. Bliss was able to execute a schoolboy pin for a 2 count, but Raven came back with a clothesline. Raven then gave Bliss the Evenflow DDT for the win.
WINNER: Raven by pinfall
WWF Smackdown: WWF Hardcore Championship Match: Raven vs. Steve Blackman: (12.21.00) - Vince McMahon is seen walking in the backstage area. Raven walks by McMahon and McMahon decides to call him over. He puts Raven over for the brutal job Raven did in putting out Al Snow. He also congratulates Raven for his hardcore match against The Undertaker, which Raven cringes at the mention of. Vince reassures Raven by telling him that Raven's standing up against the Undertaker was more than most people would do, especially against someone who outweighs Raven like Undertaker. Raven ponders this for a second and is comforted by Vince's take on his match. Vince says he was so impressed by Raven that he has decided to give Raven a title shot against Blackman for the WWF Hardcore Championship. Raven seems pleased by this and both Raven and McMahon walk off.
A while later, Raven and Blackman square off in the ring with weapons. They duel with kendo stick swords and singapore cane swords, until Blackman nails him in the head with a lid for a 2 count. The fight goes to the outside, where Raven dominates, even going into the crowd and using a popcorn man's tray as a weapon. Raven is in control until he is hit with a drop toe hold onto a garbage can. Raven sprays Blackman with a fire extinguisher to recover. Raven tries to attack Blackman with a trashcan, but it's kicked in his face. Blackman then DDT's Raven off the turnbuckle onto the trashcan for the pin.
WINNER: Steve Blackman via Pinfall.
WWF Smackdown: Raven vs. The Undertaker: (12.14.00) - Mick Foley and Debra were playing hockey in the commissioner's office and Raven walks in after being called in by Foley. Foley was being jovial with Raven and said that tonight he was going to give him a match with someone who has never wrestled a hardcore match before. Raven laughs as he thinks this will be an easy win. Mick tells Raven that since he took out Mick's best friend Al Snow with a cinder block on RAW, he was putting him in a hardcore match against the Undertaker on SmackDown!
Cue Raven's Titantron as he comes out to face the Undertaker in a hardcore match. Raven is carrying a trash can full of plunder and takes the mic. He proclaims that he is the most dangerous when cornered, like a wild animal. He sees through Foley's revenge scheme but takes the match to the Undertaker anyway. As expected, the Undertaker absolutely destroyed Raven -- much to the delight of Mick Foley, who watched on as the man who hospitalized his best friend was bloodied and given the Last Ride through the announcer's table for the pin. Afterwards, traces of Raven's blood could still be seen on the table throughout the show.
WINNER: The Undertaker via Pinfall
WWF RAW is WAR: Raven vs. Al Snow: (12.11.00) - Backstage, Al Snow approached Commissioner Mick Foley and Debra, and said that the Hell in the Cell match last night at WWF Armageddon reminded him of his reigns as WWF Hardcore Champion and the rush it gave him. He asked Foley for a hardcore match against Raven. Although Al had a broken wrist, Foley gave him the match.
During the show, Foley approached his friend Al Snow and said he didn't want to jeopardize Snow's health in a hardcore match against Raven. Snow promised he wouldn't do anything crazy, and Foley said he would allow the match to happen.
As Al Snow walked to the ring for the hardcore match, he was attacked from behind by his opponent, Raven. The two men battled on the side of the TitanTron before the action spilled onto the floor and into the backstage area! Al soon stuffed Raven into a dumpster and ran him full speed into a car! Now outside the arena, Al was attacked by Tiger Ali Singh and Lo Down. During the fracas, Raven broke a cinder block over Snow's head! Raven then easily pinned him. Al wasn't moving after the match, and referees quickly asked for some medical help for the former European and Hardcore Champion.
WINNER: Raven via Pinfall
WWF Armageddon PPV: Raven Interference: Hardcore Holly vs. William Regal: (12.10.00) - This was a grudge match between the head of the Holly clan, Hardcore, trying to wrest the European Title from Regal after Regal defeated his cousin Crash for it. Near the end of the match, Holly goes to dropkick Regal, but Regal counters with a powerbomb. Holly nails Regal over the head with his steel plated forearm. The referee then goes down to check on Regal. All of a sudden, Raven runs out, and impales Holly with his Evenflow DDT. Regal picks up the win and retains the European Title. Raven's motivation for interfering in the match seems to be directed as a receipt against Hardcore, who defeated Raven on WWF Smackdown in a brutal hardcore match on November 30th. RAW should hold more answers as this story unfolds.
WINNER: Regal via Pinfall after Raven Interference
WWF Jakked/Metal: Raven vs. TAKA Michonoku: (12.09.00) - This is TAKA's first match back in the WWF since suffering a shoulder injury a few months back. Raven started out by dominating TAKA in the corner with a series of stiff punches. TAKA came back with a stiff standing sidekick to Raven's skull. TAKA then took Raven to the outside of the ring after a head scissors takedown, and gave him a baseball slide. Raven regained control and gave TAKA his patented Russian leg sweep into the ring barrier. Back in the ring, Raven got a bulldog for a 2 count. In a first for Raven, Raven applied the Tarantula to TAKA on the ring ropes. Raven then whipped TAKA into the corner and followed it up with a clothesline. When Raven went for a backdrop, TAKA reversed it into a sunset flip for a 2 count. Raven went for a sleeper, but TAKA reversed it into a jawbreaker. TAKA then hit a spinning heel kick followed by a huracanrana. Raven then hit the Evenflow DDT on TAKA out of nowhere to get the win in this back and forth match.
WINNER: Raven via Pinfall
WWF Jakked/Metal: Raven vs. Justin Rochelau: (12.02.00) - Raven started out by whipping Rochelau to the corner and followed it up with a clothesline as Rochelau rebounded out of the turnbuckle. The match went to the outside where Raven hit his trademark russian leg sweep onto the ringside barrier. Back in the ring, Raven applied his inverted STF submission hold, but Rochelau escaped. Raven then whipped Rochelau into the corner and hit a spear to Rochelau's ribs. Rochelau was able to come back momentarily after a a nice side kick and a Japanese arm drag, but that only made Raven more angry as he came back with a flurry of offense. Raven hit a clothesline in the corner followed by a bulldog and then a knee-lift. Raven then hit the Evenflow DDT for the 3 count and the win.
WINNER: Raven via Pinfall
