>bring in Raven in September 2000>align him with Taz who is feuding with a pedo commentator >within 2 weeks he's jobbing to Steve fucking Blackman and Road Dogg wtf was the point?
>>19704728>Happy Thanksgiving. Tazz vs Ravenhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbd7w8RJBlQ
>>19704728Vince has always been a spite booker, especially if you had the audacity to get over in another company or get over on your own
>>19704728This really pissed me off as a young Raven mark, I was pretty pumped for his debut and then they totally dropped it.
>>19704728They literally hired him just because he was a popular midcarder in WCW and didn't want them to re-hire him. Supposedly Vince didn't even know he was signed and was really pissed about it because Raven used to party with Shane McMahon and give him drugs.Anyways, that's why they jobbed him and eventually relegated him to appearing on Heat exclusively.
He's just too knowledgeable, people fear for their jobs when he's around cause he's just clearly so much better than him so they bury him to the boss.
>WHO THE FUCK HIRED JOHNNY POLO?!!
>>19704763Raven quit WCW though, he could have just stayed in ECW.
>>19704787wwe would actually pay him money instead of an iou and a handshake
>>19704774I never bought this because how are people getting hired without Vince's approval? Young guys I can see, but guys that are going to be on TV right away? How?
>>19704787Plenty of people quit WCW and eventually went back. ECW probably wasn't paying him as much as WCW was or what WWF offered.
>>19704728Nobody was getting any special favors around that timepoint.He probably would've coasted along fine enough if he hadn't gotten heat with Austin and Debra.
>>19704787Eric was gone at this point and Russo would have probably pushed him hard.
>>19704800I forget why he had heat with Austin and Debra. QRD?
>>19704763WCW didnt exist then. Also>I'm going to punish this guy by paying him a fuck ton of money and give him precious time on my TV show Is some retarded mark bullshit
>>19704800What was the heat?
>>19704803A Russo push is basically an any other company burial
>>19704815Vince has done exactly this numerous times
>>19704803They already were pushing him before he left, they shot a whole series of vignettes of him hanging out with Sandman in Florida.
>>19704820Not really, Russo pushing Booker T is what gave him main event legitimacy
>>19704810>>19704817https://youtu.be/e39x1N30Zzs
>>19704810>>19704817He showed Debra his cock backstage and Steve was assblasted about itNot even kidding
>>19704835Vince, the ultimate money man, has paid people that he expects no return of? Put down the dirtsheets you fucking mark
>>19704854It wasn't his fault tho she wasn't supposed to be in the mens locker room and he was out of the shower nude
>>19704862She definitely ate a Stunner for this.
>>19704815Raven signed with WWE in 2000. WCW was still around then. Also nobody expected WCW to suddenly get sold off to WWF at that time. The Fusient bid to buy WCW from Time Warner didn't even start until January 2001.
Raven could have been a multimillionaire if he wasnt so interested in doing coke and fucking rats
>>19704889Couldn’t we all
>>19704894He did it to the detriment of his career when Vince wanted him as a creative guy in the early 90s when he was phasing out Pat Patterson
>>19704855explain shit like polka dots dusty rhodes any other way?
And people wonder why Kenny didn't go to WWE
>>19704728WCW treated him better than the WWE. He was an upper-midcarder for the first year of his WCW run, at a time when the WCW had the best roster in wrestling history (97-98) and was trouncing WWF in the ratings, and even afterwards he had some fun feuds. By mid-1999 he stalled but at that point WCW in general went to shit. If we're being honest most 1999 wrestling content has aged poorly even if it was popular then.WCW also got a lot more out of guys like Dean Malenko, Saturn, DDP than WWE did and also knew how to make use of Japanese wrestlers like Muta. The dumbest thing they did with Raven and Kidman was make them give up their grunge ring attire in favor of bland wrestling tights, which looks even dumber when Cena went on to become the biggest star of the 00s while wrestling in cargo shorts.
>>19705229>He was an upper-midcarder for the first year of his WCW runlmao no he wasn't, he was lower-mid at highest and booked forgettable wins then fed to GoldbergEven Saturn was pushed harder than him at one point
>>19705247The US title feud with DDP and Benoit was an upper-midcard feud. The US title was the 2nd most important title after the World title back then and DDP was in the midst of a megapush. Even Raven's debut received lots of build-up for a guy who spent the last few years in ECW and would've only been recognized by the small number of smarks back then.
>>19705084Good
Raven is unironically my favorite wrestler now. He wasn't as a kid or even teenager but as I got older I just realized he was a great fucking wrestler who understood what being a wrestler meanthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlUytXSGJGU
>>19704904Take the wrestling fig out yo bussy, playa
>>19705362I accept your concession
raven fucked terri and trish. jewish intellect
>>19704904The polka dots made Dusty memorable, most of the country, especially in the northeast, didn't know who the fuck he was. The rib worked because Dusty was a sensitive fruit and Vince knew it, that's why he named his manslave character after him.
>>19704904The polka dots made Dusty memorable, most of the country, especially in the northeast, didn't know who the fuck he was. The rib worked because Dusty was a sensitive fruit and Vince knew it, that's why he named his man slave character after him and Ted DiBiase was his Peggy Sue stand-in character.
>>19705556>>19705547t. bruce prichard
>>19704745Vince gave a huge push to Ric Flair in 1991, who was the face of the NWA/WCW, and had him win the Royal Rumble and the World title twice. It only ended because Flair injured his ear, suffered from vertigo, and there were rumors he might have to retire (which is why he abruptly jobbed to Bret at a house show and their matches were so-so).
>What about me? What about RAVEN?
>>19704728>still seething over Lawler 30 years laterLmao
