WCW Monday Nitro: Raven Appearance: Buff vs. DDP: U.S. Title Match: (4.06.98) - Buff does his standard match. DDP bumps for him. DDP calls for the bang and out comes Raven! who is up in the mezzanine with the "What about Raven?" spiel. As DDP goes off to chase him, we once again see a countout victory for the Stuff. Buff takes the mic from ring announcer David Penzer and demands to get the belt (even though we all know the title only changes hands on a pinfall or submission). Meanwhile, Page has returned, and is standing behind you! BANG! Buff gets cut.
WINNER: Buff via countout
WCW Monday Nitro: Raven Appearance: (4.13.98) - Saturn calls out Goldberg, the Flock and Raven reel him back in line.
Raven/DDP Video - Video recaps their feud up to this point.
WCW Spring Stampede: US Title Match: Raven vs. DDP: (4.19.98) - Raven vs. Diamond Dallas Page - US Title match - Raven tries to pull a fast one with Sick Boys help at the beginning but DDP is ready and thwarts the plan. Raven is knocked to the outside. Sick Boy tries to help him up but DDP throws a splash to the outside and downs them both. Somehow Raven recovers first and takes the advantage as they re-enter the ring. They alternately try to get each of their signature moves but each is foiled. Rave leaves the ring followed by the Champ. They go to the prop stage coach and battle to the top of it then fall onto some bails of hay. They start brawling around the western set, breaking fences, using a trash can and smashing the web site computer as Lee Marshall flees for his life. Raven somehow gets a hold of a cake pan and smashes DDP with it. They destroy a VIP box. Raven drops a double axe-handle onto DDP's injured ribs. He then hits him with a cowbell then grabs another trash can and smashes that on his head. It doesn't look good for Page as Raven drags him back too the ring. Sick Boy brings a kitchen sink to the ring for Raven to use!! DDP still has the bull rope around his neck so Raven uses it to choke him. Suddenly DDP comes alive and escapes. He uses the drop-toehold to put Raven face first onto the sink!!. Both guys are out on the mat. Page recovers and goes for a pin but Kidman launches himself for a splash. DDP, utylizes the eyes in the back of his head and scoots aside so Kidman hits Raven instead. Now the combatants trade pin attempts. Hammer tries to interfere but also hits Raven. DDP brains Hammer with the sink then goes for a pin on Raven - no cigar. Now Reese comes in and chokes Page over his head. He slams him down for Raven to cover. Still no luck. Lodi throws in a Stop sign but DDP catches it and uses it on Raven. A stranger gets involved using the Stop sign and the distracted DDP is DDT'd and pinned. The stranger wears a crew T-shirt. (He's Horace Boulder, Hulk Hogan's nephew and Mike Awesome's cousin. Recently, he was a wrestler from FMW in Japan). He helps the new Champ leave the ring area.
WINNER and NEW U.S. CHAMPION: Raven by Pinfall
WCW Monday Nitro: U.S. Title Match: Raven vs. Goldberg: (4.20.98) - Tony lets us know that Raven, who defeated Diamond Dallas Page for the US Heavyweight Championship, will take on Goldberg tonight, as promised last Thursday on Thunder. Mike and Tony talk about trouble in the NWO while Larry plays to the crowd.
Raven cuts 2 promos, both saying essentially he won't be next, or notch 75 on Goldberg's belt.
Raven starts with a spear, reverse, Raven with a dropkick and they're both outside. Goldberg reverses and Raven hits the retaining barrier. Goldberg whips him into another barrier. It's Raven's rules by the way. Goldberg with a DDT into a leglock. Raven to the ropes. Goldberg with a reverse kick, which the commentators think is a brand new move from him. Whatever. Goldberg follows Raven out, but Raven has a chair - finally turning the tide. Both mean back in. Raven with the drop toehold into the chair for 2. Raven with another chair shot and a chinlock. Big "Goldberg" chant. Goldberg stnds up and gets out of the chinlock. Raven with a short clothesline, and Goldberg wakes up. Raven with punches, and Goldberg hits a spear. Cue the flock. Kidman and Sick Boy do nothing and quickly go out. Horace Boulder uses a stop sign but it has no effect on Goldberg. Reese comes in and Goldberg suplexes HIM. Meanwhile, Raven is trying to leave - but the fans stop him and crowd surf/throw him back in. Goldberg hits the spear again. Bodyslam on the stop sign (not a jackhammer, even though they called it that). Three Count. Ladies and gentlemen, we have a new United States Champion. (4:57) Replay of the suplex of Reese, the spear of Raven, the lightning fast jackhammer, and the pin.
WINNER and NEW U.S. CHAMPION: Goldberg via pinfall.
WCW Monday Nitro: Raven Video Package/DDP Interview: (4.28.98) - Mean Gene Okerlund lets us know that it's the shank of the evening and interviews DDP. Gene says something about his shorts being rattled. When asked about Raven, DDP goes into his Big Bang Theory, then goes on with that personal exposition stuff that he and Raven have. Instead of Raven, we see Kidman and Sick Boy walking to ringside. They say that Raven isn't in the building, but they have a video instead. Raven does some personal exposition of his own and says that he won't fight him again, as he's already beaten him. Page has no comment to the video, but gives Sick Boy a diamond cutter. Sounds like the video didn't work last night and Tony and Mike overdubbed some commentary. Kidman, who had run off, had come back into the ring only to be clotheslined from behind by "a fan" - not that a lot of fans perform clotheslines and are even mentioned at the time by the commentators.
