Raven Recalls Almost Killing The Power With Golf Cart Spot At WrestleMania 17

Raven almost shut down WrestleMania 17.

The show featured a big triple threat match for the Hardcore Championship, as Raven defended his title against Kane and Big Show.

At one point in the match, Raven drove a golf cart into a fenced area. Big Show was on the cart.

Speaking with Chris Van Vliet for a new interview, Raven was asked about the incident and how he almost cut the show’s power.

“That’s true. I’m driving the golf cart, and Show’s choking me. I didn’t expect Show to be choking me, so I wanted to swerve a little bunch because I didn’t want to just drive straight, because we’re supposed to drive all the way around the Astrodome, make a full 360-degree drive. And that was my favorite spot of the match, and I totally ruined it because there was a fence, a chain link fence from ceiling to ground, and the sidewalk dropped off on the other side of the chain. So I went to bounce off the chain with the car, figuring I bounce off and swerve back on, and the wheel just went off the edge and just died right there. The car wouldn’t move, you know, to try the golf car wouldn’t move because the wheel was off the road, and so I tried to get it back on, and Show is going ‘No, no, leave it. Leave it.’ I’m like, I want to go. Kane’s going to chase us in the other golf cart. It’s going to be so cool. So then I just ran out in the traffic and got run over by Kane. Yeah, but I had do something to make in my mind to make up for the spot that I screwed up. But when I found out after the show, one of the production guys grabbed a hold of me, and he said, ‘You know you came within millimeters of cutting off the power to the entire show. You landed right on the wire that has runs the power to the show, if you would have cut through, you would have killed power to the entire event.’ That would have got me so much heat, I would have definitely been fired for that.”

Elsewhere in the interview, Raven stated that he should’ve been an upper mid-carder or a main-eventer in WWE. Fans can check out his full comments by clicking here.

Special thanks to Chris Van Vliet and his team for the quote(s) provided in this article.