8 Awesome WCW Ideas That Didn't Last

4. Raven: Spoiled Rich Kid

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Maybe not quite 'awesome', but certainly 'interesting'.

Throughout much of his time in ECW and WCW, Scott 'Raven' Levy was the grungy beacon for the disaffected youth, the embodiment of emo before 'emo' was a thing, all cut-offs, gnarly soul patch and band shirts. His moody ringside slouching and gang of outcasts was a far cry from the gimmick he'd been typecast as earlier in his career: that of the spoiled rich kid. Middle-class problems?

As it turned out: yes. Post the dissolution of The Flock, Raven went into an emotional on-screen tailspin, regularly walking out on matches and cutting morose promos. Things culminated with a nasty assault on apparent friend Chris Kanyon, only for it to be interrupted by none other than Raven's mother. She implored her son to knock the wrestling on the head for a bit, and return to the protective bosom of his extraordinarily privileged family home.

Turned out all this time Raven was playing up his emotions for financial sympathy. It was a neat way of joining the dots across Levy's career, and resulted in some legitimately hilarious vignettes - family friend Jim 'Sandman' Fullington slapping Kanyon into the pool stands out.

Like many WCW ideas, it was suddenly abandoned for no reason at all, and Raven went back to the goth sh*t. Was the ICP really an improvement on this added nuance to his character?

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