ECW: ECW World Heavyweight Championship: Stevie Richards vs. Raven: (03.29.97) - The match was supposed to be Raven vs The Sandman, but that changed quickly. Sandman caned Raven, but before he could do anything, Bulldozer Brian Lee came in and flattened the Extreme Icon with an ironing board. Raven then broke the Singapore Cane and gouged the Sandman's eye with it, causing Sandman to bleed profusely. Tommy Dreamer came out for the save, but got hit with the ironing board and the Primetime Slam. As Sandman and Dreamer head back to the dressing room, the bWo's music starts playing and Big Stevie Cool hits the ring with the rest of the bWo in tow. Raven takes the house mic and tells the crowd he'll defend the title against Richards. The action goes back and forth early on. Richards gets a 2.5 count after nailing Raven with the Steviekick on the floor. Stevie hits the brainbuster, but misses with a top rope dive. Raven then puts Stevie on the ringside table and puts him thru it. The two fought into the crowd and to the top of the bleachers where Raven rammed Stevie's head into the wall. The action spilled back to the locker room which caused Terry Funk to come out. He chased Raven into the ring and put him into the spinning toe hold. Once again, Brian Lee and his ironing board came out and laid out the Funker. As those two fought back to the dressing room, the match resumed. Raven grabbed a chair, but Stevie nailed Raven, who hit the ref, as well. Stevie with a roll up for 5, and a DDT for 5, but no ref to count it. Frustrated, Stevie nailed the second ref, only to be rolled up by Raven for the 3 count.
WINNER and STILL ECW Champion: Raven via Pinfall.
ECW: ECW World Heavyweight Championship: Spike Dudley vs. Raven: (03.21.97) - Prior to this Raven runs-in during an Axl Rotten vs. Terry Funk match. The Dudley's exit with Lee and Funk, Dreamer and Sandman motion for Raven to enter the ring! Raven chokes and exits out the back! Funk and Sandman keep up the looks until they leave.
Spike weighs in at 158 pounds to challenge for the ECW Title. The match didn't last long as Raven soundly puts away Spike after a DDT from the denizen of the Bowery.
WINNER and STILL ECW Champion: Raven via Pinfall.
NJCW: The Sandman vs. Raven: (03.19.97) - Raven wrestles for New Jack City Wrestling this evening against his ECW nemesis The Sandman. Your usual ECW-style main event, with lots of chairs and the announcers table being used during the match. The crowd went wild for the stuff these two did. Mid-match there was a wild brawl in the ring between a bunch of guys from the locker room who ran in on the match-- a preview to the 5/18 Bunkhouse Battle Royal, the winner of which will face Hellraiser for the NJCW Heavyweight Title. Raven wins via DDT.
WINNER: Raven via Pinfall.
ECW Hostile City Showdown '97: ECW World Heavyweight Championship: Stevie Richards vs. Tommy Dreamer vs. Raven: (03.15.97) - Joey is in the ring and says the next match is a luck of the draw tag match. Stevie and Tommy are one team. They are facing Raven and a partner to be determined by the luck of the draw. Joey has a bowl with a piece of paper with the name of each wrestler in the building in it. He picks a blonde women from the crowd to reach in, and pick who will be Raven's partner. The piece of paper has the name of Stevie Richards on it. Joey is confused by a Stevie and Raven vs Stevie and Dreamer match as was everyone else is, so he gets some help from Tod Gordon. Gordon says Richards can't team with 2 people at once, but he can face 2 people at once. This means the main event will be a 3 way dance: Richards vs Dreamer vs Raven for the world title. Dreamer and Raven do all the wrestling while Stevie just stays in a corner. Stevie comes over and says something to Raven twice. Both times Raven pushes him back into the corner. the second time this happens, Richards punches him back. Raven then gets double superkicked, but retaliates with a double low blow. Funk comes to the ring and is accidentaly hit by a missed Steviekick. Lee is next to come to the ring, and he chokeslams both Nova and the Meanie. Funk goes after Raven and the ring fills with all the workers. Chants of battle royal start. All mayhem breaks loose as Candido goes after Van Dam, and Taz and Sabu face off. Everyone is brawling everywhere. Lee chokeslams Dreamer over the top rope. The Gangstas' music starts playing and New Jack does an amazing dive off the entranceway to the dressing room onto the whole crowd of workers. Stevie Richards and Raven are left as the only 2 in the ring. The blond who had picked Stevie's name kisses Stevie. DDT on Stevie by Raven. The blond tries to leave, but Dreamer stops her, and she is DDTed by Raven.
WINNER and STILL ECW Champion: Raven via Pinfall.
ECW: ECW World Heavyweight Championship: "Hollywood" Nova [w/ the Blue World Order] vs. Raven: (03.08.97) - The crowd goes wild as Nova approaches the ring accompanied by Da Blue Guy and a fan-cam-equipped 7-11 [aka RF Video's Rob Feinstein]. Several minutes of "BWO! BWO!" chants. Raven's music begins, but it takes the champ about three minutes to actually make an appearance. Bob Artese can't even take a breath after his intros before Raven lights in immediately on first his opponent Nova, then on Da Blue Guy. While Raven and Da Blue Guy are fighting outside the ring. Nova does a plancha onto both wrestlers as the crowd responds with those "ECW! ECW!" chants. Nova then follows with a couple body slams and a leap off the top rope, covering Raven for a two-count. Nova then sets up a chair in mid-ring, but Raven grabs Nova and runs him face-first into the chair. He follows with a DDT and pins him, retaining his championship.
WINNER and STILL ECW Champion: Raven via Pinfall. (2:24)
Raven then grabs the mic and starts dissing his erstwhile BWO friends. He calls Meanie a "fat fuck" and calls Stevie Richards an "ungrateful little bastard". He tells the then-absent Stevie "If you had any balls, you'd come out--NOW!" Stevie finally comes out, and is promptly chaired by Raven. Raven slaps stevie and taunts him, mic in hand. He DDT's Stevie and leaves him KO'd in the ring. The other BWO guys recover, and along with the refs, try to revive Stevie. At one point, a voluptuous blonde wearing a BWO shirt hits ringside and tries to perform mouth-to-mouth on Stevie. She is hustled away, kicking and screaming, by security.
MEWF: Raven/Stevie Richards Confrontation: (03.02.97) - MEWF champ Stevie Richards came out with Blue Meanie and announced that he was going after Raven's ECW title as part of the ppv in an attempt to unify the two belts. Raven's response was to come out and deck Meanie. Stevie had to help his fellow BWO'er out of the ring. Dissension reigns in the camp of the former allies.
"Playboy" Bob Starr vs. Raven - The ECW World Heavyweight Champion Raven makes short work of Starr, putting him away at 2:45. Bob tries a Pedigree but Raven blocks his face with his arms. The finish finds Raven getting a chair from Al Albert at ringside and doing a drop toe hold so that Bob falls onto it face first, then DDTing him for the pin.
WINNER: Raven via Pinfall.
