We return to the pre-Raw house show circuit, and we're in the middle of a dark match between The Big Show and Bill DeMott. Both the big men are exchanging punches, as DeMott is gaining his second wind. DeMott backs up, and nails a stiff clothesline which sends Show stumbling backwards and falling over the top rope to the outside. Suddenly "End of Everything" by hits, and the crowd starts booing crazily as suddenly Raven walks out, with a trolley full of various weaponary. Show turns around in shock, as Raven wheels the shopping cart right into the gut of the 500 pounder! Raven then grabs a street sign, and smashes it over the big man's head as the bell starts ringing signalling the disqualification. DeMott rolls out of the ring as Raven smashes a trash can lid over his head, sending him crashing to the floor beside Show. Both the big men are down as from the shopping cart of tricks Raven pulls a microphone.

Raven
Hey Johnny...heeeeere's RAVEN!!! Is this hardcore enough for you Johnny!?! Do I need to do any more? Huh?

Raven suddenly stops, and grabs a steel chair, crashing it down across the back of DeMott. Show is back up too, but he gets dropped with a vile chair shot, before Raven rolls into the ring.

Raven
Hardcore enough for you yet Johnny? No...I never will be will I? Never enough for such a...hardcore guy like yourself. I mean you wear a bowler hat, so you must be hardcore. You have an Italian accent...if that isn't hardcore, I sure as hell don't know what is. But then again, I wouldn't I'm not hardcore am I!

Jim Ross
Raven has snapped. We've got a madman out here...

Raven
Johnny Stamboli. King of hardcore. I don't think so. What the hell have you ever done in the world of wrestling, let alone hardcore. And you have the audacity to continue to doubt my hardcore abilities. You don't know me. You do not know the first thing about Raven! You obviously don't realise...I fear nobody!!! I defended my ECW championship one time with a broken toe. My foot was in a god damn cast, and I still won my title. You've done jackshit in this business, and you think you're the bees knees because you've got a big mouth, a few muscles and a nice hat. Quite simply, you are nothing to worry about. When will you learn. I have beaten men much more hardcore than you. I have beaten men like The Sandman, Tommy Dreamer...Tazz, Terry Funk, Sabu. I have beaten the most hardcore men in this industry, and I am still the most hardcore man in this industry. I am still 'the Raven from ECW' as you mentioned. I'm still as extreme and as blood thirsty as I ever was! What don't you understand about that Johnny? You will understand once we get into that ring on Raw. See Johnny, on Raw you will realise why I am known worldwide as the King of Hardcore. And why you are just some stereotypical Italian American. Seems you've watched one too many episodes of The Sopranos, and suddenly you're mister big man. Gonna sent everyboyd to 'sleep with the fishes'. Could you be anymore stereotypically Italian? Damn, I don't think you and Van Dam even realise how serious this is. Seems like you're gonna be the one crying once Raw is over. Once I rough up your little Italian haircut and your nice leather jacket. And crumple up your little bowler hat. Then we'll see who's crying. And as far as my little prison visit went, I think you missed the point. Seems you don't have the brain power to understand the whole point of me being there. I didn't go there for a fight. I didn't want there to be any prisoners there, because it would have destroyed the whole point of it. I wanted to show you into hell, not to put a few low life pieces of trash through some. Of course, when guys like you think of prison, the words 'soap' and 'ooops, I've dropped the' come to mind. If it had have been your prison visit, no doubt you would have came out with a sore ass, if you know what I'm saying. The whole point of it was to create a metephorical link between the old prison and our match on Raw, numbnuts. I guess I'm too intelligent for you two 'brain surgeons'.

Suddenly Raven sees Big Show getting up on the outside, and smiles as he rolls out and grabs another street sign from the shopping cart, and smashes it over Show's head, the velocity knocking the five hundred pounder down immediatly.

Raven then grabs the microphone and starts to smash away at Show's head and back with shots, talking into the microphone with every shot.

Raven
Johnny... Stamboli... Van... Dam... this... is... your... future!!!

Eventually Raven stops with the street sign shots and puts the sign down, before looking down on Big Show with a sick smile.

Raven
What you see before you...is a victim. A victim of what has commonly come to be known as the Raven Effect! This is what's left, once you face the wrath of Raven. RVD, Johnny Stamboli. Take a good luck at the battered, beaten body you see before you. Come Monday night this is what I will leave. Total destruction. You don't believe I am the best in the hardcore division? You've just seen a small, tiny glimpse of what I can do. This is five hundred pounds of person laid out on this floor...and I haven't even broken into a sweat. What makes you think that you Rob Van Dam and you Johnny Stamboli can worry me. Can survive this...what makes you think you can beat me? I'll tell you what. False hope. Over inflated egos. You two fools need to realise, that I am the King of Hardcore, and you are just my subjects. You have no chance of beating me. You have false hopes that are clouding your minds. You can't see the truth staring you slap bang in the face. When it comes to hardcore rules I am the best. And nobody can defeat me. Quote the Raven...NEVERMORE!!!

"End of Everything" starts up again, and Raven walks backstage leaving the Big Show laid out on the floor.

Jim Ross
This Raven, he is one sadistic SOB. What he did to the Big Show here was sick but also impressive, and sent a stark message to Stamboli and RVD.

Jerry Lawler
I wouldn't want to be either of those two men, not with Raven in this mood. Hell Michael Cole may have got lucky just getting thrown in the sea. He could have been itnerviewing Raven.

Raven steps back behind the curtain, but suddenly he bumps into none other than WWE owner Vince McMahon, a foul scowl on his face. Raven tries to step past him, but McMahon grabs him by the arm and stops him.

Vince McMahon
Not so fast there Raven. I just wanted to ask you a question...WHO IN THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE!?! What right do you have to walk down that aisle during a match, and dismantle the two people in it...two people employed by me. I just want to know what the hell you were thinking.

Raven
What was I thinking? I was thinking I'm not getting any god damn recognition around this hell-hole, from you or any of your yes men. So I thought maybe if I make an impact guys like you would finally sit up, and take notice, and realise just the hell I am! I am Raven. I'm a former ECW World Champion. I'm your Hardcore Champion...and I'm being treated like trash. And I've had enough of it.

Vince McMahon
Well you know what Raven...maybe you're right.

Raven
Huh?

Vince McMahon
Maybe you're right. You were just making an impact. Taking advantage of a situation. You were showing me something that I like. That turns me on. You were showing me ruthless agression. So maybe, just maybe...you're right Raven.

Raven smiles and goes to walk off, but McMahon stops him again.

Vince McMahon
But next time. If you interfere in a match like that again...then there will be hell to pay!

Raven looks a little shocked, as McMahon stops and walks off, leaving a smiling Raven standing there by the entrance to the ringside area.

Raven
Ruthless Agression. Phff. If he thought that was something...just wait until Raw.

Raven then walks off, but only gets so far as he sees Mene Gene Okerlund running past. Okerlund stops, looks around and pulls Raven aside.

Raven
What the hell's the matter with you?

Gene Okerlund
Oh, Justin Credible. I just hit him and well he's after me. But while you're here I might as well tell you that Justin Credible said he is hardcore...maybe indicating he's after your Hardcore Title

Raven
You're right Gene...it is my Hardcore Title. And it still will be after Monday. So if 'Justin Credible' wants to bring him and his stupid god damn gimmicky name and take me on in hardcore rules, by all means let him. He's just another fool throwing around the word hardcore without a care for the fact it means nothing to them. He's like Stamboli and Van Dam. He too doesn't know the true meaning of the word hardcore. But soon, he will. They all will. The WWE will know what true hardcore is, as the Era of Raven consumes the World Wrestling Entertainment company! The Era of Raven...it has already begun. All that is left to say is Rob Van Dam...Johnny Stamboli...get ready to be taken to the extreme! Quote the Raven...NEVERMORE!!!

Raven walks off, leaving the parranoid Gene looking around from Credible still.