Raven
Raven is on a terrible pay-per-view role. Just consider:
* He lost The Flock at Fall Brawl, then watched 24 hours later when
Kidman -- without Raven's guidance -- captured the WCW Cruiserweight Championship.
* He didn't even smile from the pain of Chris Jericho's Liontamer at
Halloween Havoc. That also was a loss for WCW's mysterious introvert.
"I don't need anything. I don't need anybody. I'm fine by myself, I
always have been," Raven said. "What about The Flock? Do I want them back?
I don't want anything back. I don't care. I don't care about anything.
Do you miss them? I don't miss anything. I don't care about anything. Can't
you understand that? I just want to be left alone."
Raven's main sidekicks these days are Kanyon and Lodi (Lodi still wants
back with Raven). The others, such as Riggs, are nowhere to be found. Kidman,
meanwhile, is the Cruiserweight Champion, while Horace Bolder has surfaced
in the nWo Hollywood camp with his uncle "Hollywood" Hogan.
"Unlike most wrestlers who put on a persona to go in the ring and act
a certain way, then go home and are a loving family- man, I don't have
that luxury. My personal and private lives are one in the same. What you
see on TV is what you get. What I wear on TV is what I wear at home. No
one else does; no one else is," said Raven, an admitted recluse who clearly
can be described as a mind-control freak.
| "I'm not nice; I'm not a good person. I'm
not someone who respects other people. I'm not someone who cares about
other people. What I have is what I have and what I am is what I am." |
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-- Raven |
"I'm not nice; I'm not a good person. I'm not someone who respects other
people. I'm not someone who cares about other people. What I have is what
I have and what I am is what I am."
Kidman at Fall Brawl drop-kicked his relationship with Raven into the
front row. But Raven is still staking claim to his former protege's success.
"He's the Cruiserweight Champion because of me," Raven said. "If I hadn't
bullied him and pushed him around and beaten him, he wouldn't have become
the man that he is; he would be nothing but a timid little boy. I took
a child and made a man out of him, but even he doesn't respect that. He
thinks he did it all on his own; they all think they did it on their own.
What about me? What about Raven?"
"He may not need me now, but he couldn't have gotten to where he is
now without me. That's like saying you don't need your parents anymore.
Sure, you may not need them now, but, if they weren't there when you were
younger, you wouldn't be how/where you are."
"What Kidman has become shows nothing but a complete lack of loyalty,
a complete lack of honor and respect, and it just shows what kind of person
Kidman really is."
What about Saturn, another success since his split from Raven's side?
"Saturn and I were close for a long time. Now we're not. Saturn, like
Kidman, felt he could do better by himself. He can't and he'll find that
out," Raven said.
Raven is, arguably, the most hated wrestler in WCW -- among the fans
and "the boys," he points out. But that doesn't bother him. In fact, he
kind of likes that fact.
"The fans are just a bunch of mindless sheep. They are programmed to
follow and cheer for whoever WCW puts forth," he said. "I not only have
the talent to be the best wrestler, but also, my IQ is at least 15 points
higher than the next closest person in WCW, and that's a scary thing. Not
for me, but for them. To realize that somebody as unstable as me, someone
as erratic as me, someone with no fear and a taste for pain, can be that
brilliant. That's a very scary thing, especially to the uneducated."
Internet sources have been running rampant with rumors about Sandman
bolting ECW for WCW. Raven confirmed the report, but, not surprisingly,
had nothing positive to say about the careless grappler.
"We have a long-standing blood-feud. He may understand me better than
anyone, but that doesn't mean I like him. I don't think I like him or his
family, and I never have," Raven said.
