WWF Smackdown: WWF Hardcore Championship: Raven vs. Rhyno: (05.31.01) - Rhyno won the WWF Hardcore Championship on the 5/28 RAW after defeating Chris Jericho for it via the 24/7 rule. Raven is here tonight as Rhyno's first challenger for the title. Rhyno misses Raven with a gore in the corner. Raven with a roll up. 2 count. Raven with a series of clotheslines on Rhyno. Raven grabs a trash can and smashes Rhyno's back with it. Raven sets up the trash can vertically and drops Rhyno onto it with a drop toe hold. Raven picks up a trash can lid and smashes Rhyno over the head with it. Raven with a sunset flip. Rhyno turns it into a cover. Raven smashes him with the lid as he rolls over. Raven with a cover again. 2 count. Raven smashes Rhyno with the lid again and he goes out of the ring. Raven goes after him on the outside. Rhyno nails him. Rhyno puts a table in the ring [the table gets a big pop from the Canadians]. Rhyno throws Raven back in. Rhyno sets up the table in the corner. Rhyno attempts to send Raven through the table. Raven moves out of the way and misses a clothesline. Rhyno hits a clothesline. Rhyno sets up a trash can in the corner and then smashes Raven with another trash can. Rhyno attempts a Gore, but Raven moves and he GORES the trash can. Rhyno has the trash can on top of him. Raven then grabs Rhyno and slingshots him into the turnbuckle while still in the trash can. Raven gets a sink to a pop, and smashes the trash can with Rhyno in it with the kitchen sink for the sickest spot of the night. Cover by Raven for a 2 count. Rhyno then reverses an irish whip on Raven and slingshot gores him into the table. Rhyno with the cover and the hard fought victory.
WINNER and STILL WWF Hardcore Champion: Rhyno via Pinfall
WWF Jakked/Metal: Raven vs. Tony Jones: (05.27.01) - Jones is already in the ring to start this one off. If you don't know who Tony Jones is, he's a wrestler from Northern California's All Pro Wrestling who was prominently featured in the film "Beyond The Mat." This is most likely a try-out match for Jones to see if he can get a spot on the WWF developmental territories. Raven comes out to a very nice pop and another for the Crucifix.
Tie-up, Jones backs Raven into the corner. He backs off and they go into another tie-up, same result. Jones delays and then goes for a punch, which Raven ducks. Jones rums at a taunting Raven, straight into a drop-toe-hold. Raven punches Jones into the corner, but the ref pulls him off. Jones capitalises with a knee to the face and then an Irish whip, which he telegraphs, allowing Raven to kick Jones in the face. Raven follows this up with a cross-body over the top rope to the floor.
Raven whips Jones into the barricade and then gives him a Russian leg sweep onto the barrier. Raven rolls Jones inside, but as he gets in, Jones connects with a leg drop to Raven’s head. Whip by Jones into a clothesline. 2 count for Jones. Jones punches Raven to the corner and then whips him to the other one. Jones charges in at Raven, who sidesteps, causing Jones to spear the pole. Raven throws Jones to the corner and hits some right hands. Raven then whips Jones to the other corner and hits his reverse clothesline. Running knee lift by Raven. Raven whips Jones to the a corner and hits his clothesline/bulldog combo. 2 count for Raven. As they get up Jones goes to the eyes and hits a swinging neckbreaker. Jones tries to follow up with an Irish whip, Raven reverses that into the Raven Effect!
1, 2, 3 It’s all over now. Raven tells Jones to get up after the match and gets a nice pop.
WINNER: Raven via Pinfall
WWF Smackdown: Raven vs. Dean Malenko w/Perry Saturn and Terri: (05.24.01) - Dean Malenko makes his way down to ringside with Terri and Perry, the only remaining Radicalz. Raven's music then comes on the P.A. and he gets a good pop coming down and a bigger one when he poses doing the Crucifix on the top rope. Raven and Malenko then do a collar and elbow tie-up, which each of them successfully reverse to their advantage several times in a good display of counters. Raven dominates the smaller Malenko in the onset of the match. He drops Dean with a toe hold and hiptosses him several times in succession. Raven goes for the Raven Effect but Malenko slips out and dropkicks Raven onto the ropes, where Raven's leg gets caught keeping him from going over. Malenko seizes this opportunity and puts Raven's leg in a Dragon Screw Leglock, which Raven breaks by reaching the ropes. Malenko keeps attacking Raven's knee and leg and puts him in ankle lock submission. Raven gets out of it; he then whips Malenko with a clothesline and a kneelift. He attacks Saturn, who throws a chair in the ring. Raven then does his bulldog clothesline combo and signals to the crowd to a pop that he's about make Malenko feel the Raven Effect. Raven sets up Dean, but Saturn runs in and hits Raven with the Moss-Covered Three-Handled Family Cradenza, allowing Dean to do a rollover flip on top of Raven for the pin. Afterwards, Saturn runs in the ring and starts to attack Raven, chasing referee Jack Doan out of the ring. Raven then gets up and starts punching Saturn. Dean starts attacking Raven, but Raven fights him off as well. Dean gets the chair and tries to attack Raven with it, but Raven ducks and Saturn accidentally hits Dean with the Van Daminator. Raven then grabs Saturn and hits him with the Raven Effect on the steel chair, knocking him unconscious to a huge pop as the EMT's come in.
WINNER: Dean Malenko via Pinfall
WWF Sunday Night Heat: Raven vs. Val Venis: (05.20.01) - Heat is live from the Arco Arena in Sacramento, CA for WWF Judgment Day. Val Venis makes his way to the ring first with minimal heat. Raven's music hit's the speakers and out comes Raven to a big pop which gets even louder when he does the Crucifix. Both men lock up. Venis moves Raven to the turnbuckle. Raven moves out of the corner and gives Venis a shot and throws him to the other side of the ring and gives him a drop toe hold. Venis chops Raven, but Raven pushes Venis over the top rope. Raven is pulled out of the ring and Venis gives him a right hand. Raven throws Venis into the stairs. They get back in the ring and Raven rolls Venis up for a one count. Venis recovers and gives Raven a neck breaker. Val pins for a two count. He pulls Raven up and slaps a camel clutch on him between the ropes for more leverage. Val pins Raven for another two count. Raven counters and gives Venis a few chops in the corner. Raven pins Val for a two count. Raven blocks a piledriver twice. Val pulls Raven down and roles him up for a two count. Raven pulls out and gives Val a chop. Raven then whips Val and hits his patented bulldog/clothesline combo for the pinfall.
WINNER: Raven via Pinfall
WWF Smackdown: Albert vs. Raven: (05.10.01) - The X-Factor/Raven feud continues. Albert starts off the match dominating Raven. Raven finally starts some offense and ends up knocking Albert out of the ring. Albert goes to slam Raven into the post but he reverses it and slams Albert into the post. Action goes back into the ring where Albert once again dominates. Albert goes for the Baldo bomb but Raven gets out of it. Raven gets knocked down again and Albert goes for a elbow drop from the top rope but misses. Raven starts some offense but doesn't get anywhere. Raven ends up falling into the Baldo Bomb and Albert gets the 3 count and the win.
WINNER: Albert via Pinfall
WWF RAW is WAR: Raven Interference: Six Man Tag-Team Tables Match: Dudley Boyz vs. X-Factor: (05.07.01) - Match starts off with Bubbah and D-Von throwing Spike out of the ring onto X-Factor. Credible kicks Bubbah down in the corner. Albert with a double clothesline on Bubbah. X-Pac hits Bubbah with a spinning heel kick. Bubbah bomb on Credible. D-Von powerslams X-Pac. Albert clotheslines D-Von. X-Pac misses the bronco buster. Wazzup headbutt on X-Pac. Albert kicks the table into Bubbah and D-Von's faces. Albert gives Spike a scissor kick. Albert sets up a table on the outside. All of a sudden, Raven comes down to the ring and hits Albert in the back with a kendo stick. Albert is stunned and Spike gets the advantage as Raven leaves. Spike hits Albert with the "Dudley Dog" [formerly known as the Acid Drop in ECW] from the ring apron through the table for the win.
WWF Smackdown: Raven vs. X-Pac: (05.03.01) - X-Pac makes his way down to the ring with his X-Factor posse, Albert and Justin Credible to a chorale of boos. Raven then makes his way down to the ring by himself. X-Pac with a kick and right hands on Raven. Raven bounces X-Pac front first off the turnbuckle and hits a clothesline. Raven then clotheslines X-Pac out of the ring. X-Pac with a shoulder block on Raven. X-Pac jumps back in the ring. Raven then grabs X-Pac after some punches and goes for the "Raven Effect" (WWF's new official name for the Evenflow DDT). Credible jumps on the apron. Raven knocks him off. X-Pac with a spinning heel kick on Raven, then follows with a headlock on the ground. Raven gets away from X-Pac, then X-Pac hits a clothesline on Raven. X-Pac with a side headlock. Raven tries to throw him away. X-Pac holds on and puts him on the ground. Both men on their feet. Raven with two rights to the gut. X-Pac jumps behind Raven and locks in a sleeper. Raven is down. Raven keeps the arm up. X-Pac with a spinning heel kick for a 2 count. X-Pac steps on Raven's neck in the corner Kevin Nash-style. X-Pac then attempts and misses the Bronco Buster. Raven knocks down X-Pac with a knee lift. Raven then hits his clothesline/bulldog combo. Albert gets on the apron. Raven nails him. X-Pac hits a spear on Raven and hits the Bronco Buster. X-Pac then hits Raven with a boot to the stomach. X-Pac, sensing victory, attempts to set up Raven with the X-Factor. All of a sudden, Raven reverses the move and drops X-Pac with the Raven Effect for the win. Albert and Justin then run in Albert hits a Baldo Bomb on Raven as X-Factor hightails it.
WINNER: Raven via Pinfall
