Raven: Taz, there are a few things that guide me in life. Three of them are Fate, Destiny, and Pain. i live my life by them. I follow them. Fate brought me back to ECW Taz. Fate put me in this ECW World Title Tournament. Fate is me drawing Taz, a man I've been allies with and I've been his enemy. I couldn't be happier right now. The joy fills my body, knowing that I am going to hurt you. Knowing that after facing me you will never be the same. You'll come in a street thug and leave battered and broken. I can deal with pain, can you?

My destiny is to win the ECW World Title. This title has been sought after by many and worn by few. Let me give you a little history lesson Taz. Shane Douglas won an NWA World Title Tournament and threw the title down, declaring that ECW was on it's on. Shane did something different, something unique. There's nothing left to do for me that is unique. I can supply pain, hurt, sorrow, despair. I can supply it with the all-time greats, but it's unoriginal. I've done it to too many people for it to be anything special. Now, after saying all that you're probably wondering why I'm here. I am in ECW to hand out beatings. I am in ECW to be what I am, Raven. Originality never mattered to me, that's why I never did any of those crazy suplexes like you did. I do not have to come up with a "Ravenplex" or a "Ravenmission". I have the Evenflow DDT and that's harsh enough. You do things flashy to get noticed, but you have no substance. You have no business fighting someone the caliber of Raven. Because you're too thickskulled to quit, to walk out, I'll have to beat that realization into you. Taz, what you're up against isn't normal. The pain you WILL go through is not going to be a walk in the park. Be ready.

One question you might be asking yourself is "Why is Raven in a graveyard?" I am here to prove a point. To get something in your mind. Taz, you're not walking out on your own too feet. You will be lucky if you get to spend the next few months in the hospital rehabbing. The only way you get out is if I let you. This is where you will rest.

Raven moves to reveal a gravestone with "Taz" initialled into the headstone.

Raven: Quoth the Raven, nevermore.

Raven: This is a good one. Taz vs. Tajiri, ECW World Title. Tajiri has Steve Corino and Jack Victory in his corner, but it doesn't matter because it's Taz. There's something you just don't get. I'm not a lightweight or a superheavyweight. However, that does not make one bit of a difference. I know how to work you over, how to break you down in several different places over a few minutes. I am a master at psychology. Albert Einstein has a fabulous quote, "I don't know what weapons will be used in World War 3, but I know World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones." Do I need to spell it out for your sophmoric, idiotic mind? May as well, I want you to understand the pain you're going to go through. The quote means that the world will be so destroyed because underhanded people like you, people who don't match up with world powers in talent or in size, will use something ridiculous like a nuclear weapon. I am truly sorry for you because there's no such thing in a wrestling match. You could bring an army and I'd knock them down. It is my destiny to beat you. It is fate for you to lose, not only to me, but to just about everyone. What you are is a one trick pony, a man who can't match up with someone so versatile and so much more advanced such as myself.

Raven: Speaking of the match, you'll win. You will overcome people once in awhile Taz, because even blind squirrels find nuts. Look at the Brooklyn Brawler, he beat Triple H once. Does that mean you're going to beat me? Well even if you use logic so gap filled like that, no. I am not going to let myself be beat by someone like you. I would never allow my legacy to be tarnished by such an imbecile. I don't leave weakspots out in the open, I fight like a pitbull, only stopping once the opponent is gone.

Raven: There are many differences between you and I. You haven't dealt with the pain that I have. You haven't overcome the constant glass ceilings, the constant ridicule of everday society members. I have felt more pain in the past two years of my life than you have in your entire life. I used to be under an addiction. I kicked it. It took everything that I have but I overcame that addiction. What have you done Taz? You won the ECW World Title when it meant nothing. It means nothing unless a great holds it. What value do you bring to it? That's why Paul came to me. To make something of this promotion. To bring it back to it's former heights. I'll make ECW what it was. I'll make that title worthwhile. You can make no such claims. It is my destiny to win.