WWE Legend Nearly Cut Off Power During WrestleMania Match

A legendary WWE superstar admits that he was involved in a match that almost cut off the power during a major WrestleMania.

WrestleMania 17 in 2001 is celebrated by many WWE fans as perhaps the greatest WrestleMania of them all. It was at a time when the roster was loaded with big names, there were so many big names on the card, the top matches were legendary, and it had so many memorable moments.

One of the fun title matches on the card saw Raven defend the Hardcore Title against two massive Hall of Fame opponents, Big Show and Kane, in a triple threat match. Kane got the win when he hit an elbow drop off the stage onto Big Show after Show and Raven went through some tables.

During the match, as you can see above, Raven was driving a golf cart backstage while Big Show was choking him, and Kane was on another cart while referee Jimmy Korderas was trying to keep up with the action.

In an interview with Insight’s Chris Van Vliet, Raven was asked if they nearly knocked out the power during WrestleMania 17, and the former ECW World Champion confirmed that it is true.

“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 cart 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.”

Raven Was Told He Nearly Cut Off The Power At WWE WrestleMania 17

As the story continued, Raven revealed that somebody on WWE’s production team told him that power was nearly cut off during Raven’s golf cart incident.

“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.”

The good news is the power was not cut off and WrestleMania 17 went off without a hitch.