IWC: Raven vs. CM Punk: (01.31.04) - The Raven/Punk war ignites anew in IWC in Aliquippa, PA as the two's love/hate relationship turns anew to hate. Earlier in the night, Punk cemented his heel turn in IWC by attacking IWC champion Dean Radford, leading to a title win by Sterling James Keenan. Inevitably, this came to play in the match-up between the two one-time members of Raven's Gathering in NWA/TNA and blood enemies in Ring of Honor. Dean Radford interfered in the match-up as Keenan ran in to return Punk's favor by attacking Raven. Radford knocked both Keenan and Punk for a loop allowing Punk to succumb to what has come to be known as The Raven Effect for the win.
WINNER: Raven via Pinfall
WIN/LOSS/DRAW Singles Record for 2004: 2/1/0
3PW: Raven/Blue World Order Confrontation: (01.24.04) - 3PW Heavyweight Champion & commissioner Raven came down to the ring during a segment with Tod Gordon and his sex slaves Jasmine St. Claire & Talia Doll. Raven got on the microphone and engaged in a dialogue with Gordon where he ordered him to spank Talia. Gordon seems reluctant to do so and Raven orders him to comply. At this point, the Blue World Order, Stevie Richards and The Blue Meanie came down to the ring. Raven, expecting them to side with his as Raven's Nest once again, gets in Stevie's face. Stevie Richards informs Raven that he is not Raven's mindless lackey anymore and is his own person. Raven takes umbrage at Stevie's new found independence and goes to lay Stevie out with a superkick, the move that Stevie picked up from Raven's past persona Scotty The Body Flamingo back in 1994 in ECW when he was laying the groundwork for Raven's emergence in ECW. Stevie blocked the move and instead laid Raven out with his own version of the move to signal that the Stevie/Raven link is broken.
3PW Heavyweight Championship: The Sandman vs. Raven - Raven put his 3PW Championship on the line against his age old nemesis The Sandman in a Hardcore TLC match. This stems from their last encounter at 3PW where Raven forced Sandman to partner with him against Combat Zone Wrestling's Wifebeater and John Zandig & Raven insisted on taking away Sandman's cigarettes, beer and entrance music to take out petty vengeances against him for their years long rivalry. This was a bloody & brutal yet at oft-times comical match-up as the two traded barbs on the microphone throuhout the night making a battle not just of hardcore wrestling expertise but on the spot wits. Hardcore highlights included The Sandman setting up Raven on a table for a big splash, only for Raven to move at the last minute and Sandman shattered the table to splinters. Ultimately, Raven retained the 3PW title via pinfall and lives to wield his power in 3PW as champion/commisioner for yet another day.
WINNER: Raven via Pinfall
WIN/LOSS/DRAW Singles Record for 2004: 1/1/0
Major League Wrestling: Skrewface Match: Raven vs. Vampiro: (01.10.04) - A Skrewface match is basically a falls count anywhere Raven's Rules match. Match in the ring quickly moves through the entire crowd, all over the place. Lots of them slamming each other into the walls. Match finally returns to the ring, and Raven brings a plastic chair in the ring and drops Vampiro's face on it twice. Finally asks the crowd for a metal chair and gets one. Vampiro reversed it, but the chair tipped over. Raven catches it, throws it at Vampiro but misses and hits the ref. Raven hits the Evenflow, but there's no ref. Vamp ends up getting the win via a pinning crescent kick onto Raven.
WINNER: Vampiro via Pinfall.
WIN/LOSS/DRAW Singles Record for 2004: 0/1/0
WIN/LOSS/DRAW Singles Record vs. Vampiro: 1/1/0
Major League Wrestling: Raven & Vampiro vs. Steve Corino & Sabu: (1.09.04) - This is a "Lethal Lottery" match-up where the teams are picked at random with the winner, if it isn't Steve Corino the current MLW Champion, getting a shot at the MLW Heavyweight Championship. Corino cuts a promo, adding the stipulation that Raven cannot become #1 Contender even if he wins the match. He had talked to Bauer and declared this because Raven always made him feel inferior in the past. "Quote the king of old school, nevermore!" Raven says he just wants the pleasure of humiliating Corino by beating him up, then letting Vampiro get the pin. Vampiro responds by telling Raven to go fuck himself. Corino kept trying to lay down for Raven, but Raven wouldn't pin him. Vampiro tried to steal the pin, but it didn't work. Sabu puts Raven and Corino through a table. Finally Raven has Corino for the pin, and tells Vamp to pin him. Vamp puts the Evenflow on Raven, then puts him over Corino for Raven to pin Corino and win the match. Afterwards, Vampiro cuts a promo, sayikng that he doesn't care about the belt, he cares about beating up Raven. He also adds that he doesn;t care for TNA, he only cares about being in MLW & if Raven has balls under his skirt to face him.
Raven & Vampiro face off tomorrow night in FL. in a "Skrewface" match designed by Vampiro.
WINNERS: Raven & Vampiro via Pinfall
WIN/LOSS/DRAW Tag Record for 2004: 1/1/0
WIN/LOSS/DRAW Tag Record vs. Sabu/Corino: 1/0/0
NWA Total Nonstop Action: Raven & The Sandman vs. The Gathering [CM Punk & Julio Dinero]: (01.07.04) - Raven faces his former proteges in The Gathering of CM Punk and Julio Dinero tonight alongside a Mystery Partner, The Sandman. Last week, they cost him his title opportunity and his destiny. This week, Raven aims for revenge. Scott Hudson interviewed Raven & he wouldn't reveal his mystery partner for tonight, but said that Punk & Dinero would experience "Payback" tonight. Scott Hudson later interviewed CM Punk & Julio Dinero. They said that they were tired of riding on Raven's coattails, so they took away the one thing he wanted, a shot at the NWA Title. They said they didn't care about Raven's partner, and that they may have their own surprise for Raven.
A video history package on Raven and the Gathering was shown.
Punk & Dinero, who have a new entrance video, came out first. Raven entered the ring, then Sandman appeared in the crowd, wearing a Raven T-Shirt, and came to the ring to team with Raven. Punk slapped Raven before the bell, and Raven responded with slaps to both opponents. Raven and Sandman then spit beer at their opponents to start the match. Sandman hit Dinero with a standing dropkick, and Raven teased a DDT on Punk, but he slid out to the floor. We saw that backstage, Skipper was trying to talk to Low Ki, who walked away. In the ring, Raven worked over Dinero, giving him a drop toe hold to set up a Sandman top rope legdrop. Sandman put Dinero over the top rope and gave him a guillotine legdrop. Sandman missed a slingshot legdrop, but kept on the offensive, slugging Dinero to the mat. Sandman missed a senton, and Punk tagged in, hitting a springboard dropkick. Punk worked over Sandman in his corner with boot scrapes. Dinero tagged in and hit a dropkick for two. Dinero hit a STO variation and tagged in Punk, who hit a top rope legdrop. Dinero got a tagged in and hit a moonsault, then Punk tagged in for a senton but missed. Sandman made the tag to Raven, who cleaned house with kneelifts. The referee got bumped as Raven whipped Punk into Dinero. Dinero ended up fighting with Sandman on the floor. A masked man in a black cloak came into the ring, and used an ether soaked towel on Raven. Punk then hit Raven with a DDT for the pin at the seven minute mark.
WINNERS: The Gathering via Pinfall (7:00)
WIN/LOSS/DRAW Tag Record for 2004: 0/1/0
WIN/LOSS/DRAW Tag Record vs. Gathering: 0/1/0
Post-match, Sandman ran off Punk and Dinero with his cane. Punk and Dinero retreated to the rampway with the masked man, who revealed himself to be Father James Mitchell.
