10 Wrestlers Who Blame Others For Failing In WWE

Before he was a grungetastic denim cutoff enthusiast spouting nihilistic nonsense from the corner of a ring, Scott 'Raven' Levy portrayed the minted Johnny Polo, an over-privileged prep known more for his mic skills than his mat skills. Even before finding his true place in the industry, Levy was a chameleon, and he slipped into his character convincingly.

It probably helped that he'd spent much of 1994 shadowing an actual over-privileged prep - who just so happened to be his boss' son, Shane McMahon. Unfortunately - for the sake of his career, if not his social life - he shadowed him a little too closely. The pair of 20 somethings quickly earned a reputation for their revelry; when Stamford bars would typically tip out around 1am, Polo and Shane would continue their partying through the small hours in Port Chester, NY - to the extent the former earned it as a nickname.

As you might reasonably imagine, getting the chief's kid blathered every night had a detrimental effect on Levy's career. "My downfall was I'd bring Shane out with me," he revealed on a Talk is Jericho podcast some years back. A plastered Jr. would ape Levy's habit of calling Vince 'Vic' on commentary during drunken late phone calls, before announcing he wasn't coming home that night - or morning. "He'd say 'Hey Vic,' and it would be, like, four in the morning, 'I'm just going to sleep at Johnny Polo's tonight' and so I just buried myself."

When Levy returned to WWE at the end of the millennium under his Raven guise, Vince was heard to say, "who the f*ck hired Johnny Polo?" It's not know whether Shane, 30, still needed his dad's permission for a night out.