The Rock 'n Rave Infection

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Jimmy Rave
Christy Hemme
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Lance Hoyt and Jimmy Rave
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debut=2007
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The Rock 'n Rave Infection is a heel professional wrestling stable consisting of Lance Rock, Jimmy Rave, and their valet, Christy Hemme.

History

2007

Rock (Lance Hoyt) and Rave (Jimmy Rave) made their debut as a team at No Surrender in the tag team gauntlet in a losing matter. On the following episode of iMPACT! Hoyt and Rave, accompanied by Hemme (Christy Hemme) (Hoyt's on screen girlfriend at the time), made their impact debut as a team. They continued to wrestle, week after week, but they kept on losing. Hemme quickly grew tired of this and began complaining. The rift within the team continued to develop until an interview segment where Hemme claimed she had heard Rave call her a "red snapper". Rave insisted he was talking about fishing but Hemme thought otherwise telling Hoyt to "make him get lost", to which Hoyt said "Jimmy's my boy, and you're gonna have to deal with it." Hemme replied by saying "Your getting nothing tonight, NOTHING!". It was during this interview that Rave first referred to the team of himself and Hoyt as "The Rock 'n Rave Infection", which initially provoked an annoyed response from Hemme. After a match where Rave and Rock accompanied Christy to a squash at the hands of Awesome Kong, there have been no problems between the trio.

On the November 15, 2007 episode of iMPACT! the team scored their first major victory by upsetting LAX with help from Christy, who after the match was attacked by a member of the "Latino Nation". Hoyt and Rave got into a feud with LAX, and week after week Hemme would be harassed or attacked by the masked member of LAX. Hemme threatened to sue (kayfabe) TNA Management for male on female harassment.

2008

On the first iMPACT! of 2008 TNA held gauntlets to determine "rankings" of their divisions. In the tag team division, Hoyt and Rave were ranked number 5 and VKM were ranked number 4, so one member from each team started the match. A member from Team 3D came out next, followed by someone from the Motor City Machine Guns and someone from LAX. Near the end of the match the two teams left were LAX and The Rock 'n Rave Infection. LAX won the match so Hoyt and Rave were ranked number 2 in the division. At the Final Resolution PPV the teams ended their feud in a match won by LAX. After the match the mystery Latino Nation attacker low blowed Hoyt and then unveiled herself as a woman named Salinas, therefore showing why they were not threatened by the lawsuit.

After the LAX feud had ended the trio of Rave, Hoyt and Hemme started acting like a rock band, bringing out Guitar Hero game controllers to the ring, with Christy Hemme acting like a frontwoman. They mainly put other teams over for the next few weeks, until they started a feud with the Motor City Machine Guns, losing 3 matches in a row. On the April 3rd edition of TNA Impact! they were in an 8-man tag team match against LAX and the Motor City Machine Guns. Hoyt and Rave were paired with Rellik and Black Reign and were called "The Monsters of Rock" in a backstage interview segment. "The Monsters of Rock" lost and then proceeded to have a post match beat down on the other team. Kaz intervened, trying to stop the attack, at which point he was also attacked, opting for Super Eric to come out and stop the attack. On May 1st they were eliminated from the Deuces Wild Tag Team Tournament in the first round, losing to A.J. Styles and Super Eric. The following week, Jimmy Rave defeated Curry Man in a six man X division match. On the July 17 edition of iMPACT!, Hoyt changed his ring name to Lance Rock and both he and Rave lost to Matt Morgan.

In wrestling

*Finishing and signature tag team moves
**Inverted atomic drop by Rave followed by the "Boot From Hell" by Rock

*Entrance music
**"Rock 'n Rave" by Dale Oliver
**"Society Box (Instrumental)" by Christy Hemme

References

*1. http://www.tnawrestling.com/content/view/516/37/
*2. http://www.tnawrestling.com/content/view/248/37/
*3. http://www.tnawrestling.com/content/view/266/37/=

External links

* [http://onlineworldofwrestling.com/profiles/r/rock-and-rave-infection.html Online World Of Wrestling Profile]