10 Wrestlers Who Were Way Ahead Of Their Time

8. Raven

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Scott Levy had played a number of wacky characters for years, but it wasn't until he morphed into Raven in 1993 that his career well and truly took off. Raven was a new type of heel, not least because of his grungier than grunge look. Raven looked like the lowest rung of alternative culture in the early 1990s, and it is surprising that more wrestlers didn't take advantage of that huge subculture.

Like many others on this list however it was his promos and psychology that set Raven apart. His words were more philosophical than threatening, seemingly going off at tangents before returning to a cohesive point and always ending with 'Quoth the Raven, nevermore'.

Raven was misanthropy before misanthropy was cool, the truly dark soul who became the leader of the lost. CM Punk claimed to be the voice of the voiceless in 2011, but nearly two decades prior his great rival was leading abandoned souls into combat under his watch.

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