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 Boulder 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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"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.