Ex-WWE Star Opens Up On Being "Pretentious" And "Arrogant"

Heat with Vince McMahon? Check. Holding his WWE career to "a higher standard"? Check.

by Jamie Kennedy
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Former WWE star Raven "had heat" with Vince McMahon during both of his runs in the company.

Raven told Soundsphere that (in particular) he "didn't get to do everything [he] wanted" during his second stint with WWE between 2000-2003. The celebrated ECW original actually viewed his career as a failure because he didn't win Vinnie Mac's World Title - Raven later "had to spend time on a psychologist’s couch to be happy" and "accept the fact that [his} career was incredibly successful".

He admitted during the interview that he always held himself "to a higher standard" than others around him. That, Raven says, was "arrogant" and "pretentious" behaviour. Had a peer moaned about a career as successful as his, he'd have cut them down and then helped them see that they still had a great time.

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Raven couldn't see that at the time. He had quite the chip on his shoulder.

Some of this "heat with Vince McMahon" may have been born during his first WWF/WWE run in the early-1990s. The then-Johnny Polo partied with a young and impressionable Shane McMahon, and that could've raised the ire of Vince.

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Lifelong wrestling, video game, music and sports obsessive who has been writing about his passions since childhood. Jamie started writing for WhatCulture in 2013, and has contributed thousands of articles and YouTube videos since then. He cut his teeth penning published pieces for top UK and European wrestling read Fighting Spirit Magazine (FSM), and also has extensive experience working within the wrestling biz as a manager and commentator for promotions like ICW on WWE Network and WCPW/Defiant since 2010. Further, Jamie also hosted the old Ministry Of Slam podcast, and has interviewed everyone from Steve Austin and Shawn Michaels to Bret Hart and Trish Stratus.