Raven's 3rd WWE theme

In March 2002, when the Brand Extension was announced, Raven was drafted to Raw with the 28th pick. On the final SmackDown! before the split began, he defeated Maven to once again win the Hardcore Championship, thus bringing the title to Raw. He lost the title that Monday to Bubba Ray Dudley. At that time, Levy decided to spend some time announcing, and Raven became the new color commentator for Sunday Night HEAT and WWF Excess. This lasted a couple of months, as he later "quit" the show to resume his wrestling career on Raw. This did not last long either, as was banished from RAW after losing a match to Tommy Dreamer on June 24, 2002. Raven was forced to spend the rest of the year on HEAT, the show that he quit from mere weeks earlier.

Levy was given creative control to develop a storyline related to the seven deadly sins a la the film Se7en, with Raven becoming a sort of puppet master using HEAT as his playground. It started to play out; however, it was determined by management that it was not over enough, and the angle was aborted.

Although Raven did win his way back onto the RAW roster, he only had one match (losing to Jeff Hardy in a Royal Rumble qualifier) and was released the following week on January 20, 2003.

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