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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."
-- 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.