When Raven looks back on his career, one of his proudest moments is the United States title match he had with Goldberg in 1998.
Goldberg won his first pro wrestling title when he defeated Raven for the United States Championship on the April 20, 1998 episode of WCW Nitro. Raven remembers it as a “really good” match and the first good match that Goldberg ever had.
“Goldberg match, just because Goldberg had never had a good match before that,” Raven responded on Insight with Chris Van Vliet when asked about his proudest wrestling moments.
“And it’s one of his, I don’t know, Goldberg might have had good matches in this run he’s had recently. I don’t know, I haven’t watched any of it, as I said. But back in the day, I was the first good match he had. And the first really good match, let alone good match. I was really proud of that, that I was able to get that out of him.”
Goldberg made his pro wrestling debut in 1997 and went on to become one of the biggest stars in the industry. He retired from the ring last year in a loss to Gunther at WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event.
Along with the Goldberg bout, Raven named an ECW match against Terry Gordy and WWE match against Rhyno as some of his favorites. In the Gordy match, Raven feels like he was able to bring the old Gordy back one last time after Gordy had suffered from brain damage. Raven said he considers the Backlash 2001 bout against Rhyno the best hardcore match in history up to that point.
“Nevermore: The Raven Effect” — a documentary on Raven — is now available. Real name Scott Levy, the 61-year-old Raven is believed to be suffering from early onset Parkinson’s disease. He describes his overall health as good, though he has a sleep disorder that he attributes to his years of drug abuse and taking chair shots to the head. He is now sober and told Insight that he’s embarrassed by his past drug use.
After Dark Radio is back with a very special episode as we are joined by Scott Levy, aka RAVEN, to talk a number of paranormal topics including Bigfoot, UFOs, strange structures in the woods, crop circles, ghosts, his own UFO sighting, and tons more! A fun show as always, hopefully the first of many, so check it out~!
Raven says if he was to go back and change things about his life, he’d have sought help for mental health much sooner than he did.
Raven was a guest on the Friday edition of Wrestling Observer Radio with Dave Meltzer and Garrett Gonzales promoting Nevermore: The Raven Effect, the documentary on his life and career. The documentary is set to release on Amazon Prime on Tuesday, November 18.
During the interview, Raven was asked about any regrets he has from his career.
“Anybody who says they don’t have regrets is full of s–t. I got millions of regrets,” Raven responded.
“I’m very content with my life, as content as I’ve ever been but that doesn’t mean I wouldn’t have changed things along the way. And one of the things I would have is I would have found a way to get over my insecurity much sooner because my insecurity led to my egotism. Anybody who’s egotistical is just insecure, that’s scientific fact.”
Raven continued:
“I would have went to a psychiatrist earlier, or psychologist earlier probably.”
“I think everybody should spend time on a couch, frankly. It’s very liberating to talk to a therapist and to be able to bear your soul and to offer up all your inner demons and look for a way to get around them instead of just suffering with them.”
In addition to the interview with Raven, Friday’s edition of Wrestling Observer Radio also covers the 2025 WON Hall of Fame Class, which includes CM Punk, Cody Rhodes, Sabu, Gran Hamada, Dorrell Dixon, Bobby Bruns, and Spyros Arion. The full episode is available for subscribers here.
Nevermore: The Raven Effect was directed by Geordie Day, who also worked on Tough Guy: The Bob Probert Story and Charles Manson: The Final Words. Chris Jericho, Buff Bagwell, Moose, The Sandman, Shane Douglas, Brian Myers, Perry Saturn, Billy Corgan, Rob Van Dam, Lodi, Bubba Ray Dudley, Sami Callihan, Kevin Sullivan, Tommy Dreamer, Diamond Dallas Page, D’Lo Brown, Blue Meanie, and Scott D’Amore are advertised as appearing in the film.
Dave Meltzer and I are back with the Friday edition of Wrestling Observer Radio, talking about the big news from today’s 2025 Hall of Fame issue of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.
Dave talks about the new inductees, who missed the mark but was close, and those who may do well on next year’s ballot.
Then, Raven joined the show to discuss his new documentary “Nevermore: The Raven Effect” which debuts on Amazon Prime next week.
Here were some of the things we discussed:
How the documentary came to be
Reflecting on his past
His friendship with Shane McMahon during his first WWE (then WWF) stint
His ECW legacy
Starting in his early days as Scotty The Body and a stint in WCW in the early 90s
His MMA fandom and what he’s told pro wrestlers who also became fighters
Former ECW, WWE and WCW star Raven revealed that he has been diagnosed with early-onset Parkinson’s disease.
Appearing on Wednesday’s Ariel Helwani Show (seen below), he was talking about his upcoming documentary and said at this point in his life, he’s “as content as I’ve ever been…other than this stupid tremor I got from the Parkinson’s.”
Helwani mentioned he noticed in the documentary that he was suffering from the disease and asked how he is doing with it.
“I’m lucky. It hasn’t affected me too bad. When I get anxious, the tremor gets worse or if I’m really tired. I have a sleep disorder,” he explained.
“You gotta pay the piper sometime. For all the drugs and alcohol and chair shots I took to the head, you gotta pay for the damage at some point,” he said, admitting those three things resulted in his current state.
He also admitted that he has “tons of regrets” and that anyone that says they don’t is “full of sh*t,” but wouldn’t have changed anything.
“It made me who I am. I’m happy with who I am. I’d rather be happy with who I am at the end of my life rather than earlier in my life and not be happy at the end,” he said.
Nevermore: The Raven Effect comes out on Amazon Prime on November 18 with a special screenings with Raven at the PhilaMOCA in Philadelphia on October 11 and 12.
Raven discussed the upcoming documentary on his life during a recent appearance on The Ariel Helwani Show.
Nevermore: The Raven Effect will be released on Amazon Prime on November 18. Special screenings of the film will be held this weekend at the Philadelphia Mausoleum of Contemporary Art, in the city where Raven was a pivotal part of ECW. Raven told Helwani that ECW was probably the part of his career that he is most proud of.
Raven said of ECW:
“When I got there, the babyfaces were all being booed, the heels were all being cheered, nothing was right with the world. I said, I’m going to be a heel, everybody who fights me is going to be a babyface. Because everybody thought the heel/babyface dynamic was passe at that point. And I refused to believe that because you have to have the heel/babyface dynamic to truly have the great matches. So I made a point that I was going to be a heel, everyone I fought would be a babyface, and it swung the company around, all ego aside.”
Earlier in the conversation, Raven talked about how he used to feel his career was a failure because he never won the WWE Championship.
“For the longest time, I didn’t think my career was a success because I wasn’t the world champion of WWE, which is really ridiculous. I held myself to such a high standard. But as my therapist said, you’re the one holding yourself to that standard, you can also let yourself off the hook too.”
“And that kind of triggered something in me and made me realize that you don’t have to hold yourself to a higher standard.”
Nevermore: The Raven Effect was directed by Geordie Day, who also worked on the biographies Tough Guy: The Bob Probert Story and Charles Manson: The Final Words. A description of the film reads:
“Nevermore: The Raven Effect examines the pivotal shift in wrestling history, through the eyes of Raven/Scott Levy, a brilliant, inventive, complicated and controversial performer.”
“Now approaching sixty, Raven/Levy and many others look back at an era when an extreme personality thrived in an extreme environment – the only question is, how did he live to tell the tale?”
Chris Jericho, Billy Corgan, Rob Van Dam, Diamond Dallas Page, Bubba Ray Dudley, Tommy Dreamer, The Sandman, Perry Saturn, Kevin Sullivan, Blue Meanie, Shane Douglas, Lodi, Brian Myers, D’Lo Brown, Buff Bagwell, Sami Callihan, Moose, and Scott D’Amore are advertised as appearing in the film.
Raven’s appearance on The Ariel Helwani Show is available below:
A trailer for the documentary:
For all those asking if my documentary is coming to their town, well outside of Philadelphia, Baltimore and Atlanta I’m not sure, but I finally have a release date for streaming platforms and it’s November 18; on Amazon prime, and more! Watch early and often! pic.twitter.com/LAAg6vaZrE
TNA Wrestling Hall of Famer Raven made a surprise appearance on Thursday’s Impact.
The 2022 TNA Hall of Famer appeared on Thursday’s Impact in a vignette with Rosemary, who will challenge for the TNA Knockouts World Championship at Genesis against Masha Slamovich on January 19.
In the vignette, Raven suggested a Clockwork Orange House of Fun stipulation for the Knockouts title match at Genesis, which Rosemary heartily accepted. The stipulation was made official later in the program.
Rosemary held a knife to Raven’s neck during the vignette, with the Hall of Famer playing it off as though he was turned on by the entire situation.
Raven regularly wrestled for TNA between 2003 and 2010, including capturing the then-NWA-TNA World Championship in June 2005.
Real name Scott Levy, the 60-year-old Raven’s career spans more than 35 years, with multiple stops in WWF/WWE, WCW, and ECW. He has wrestled sparingly since 2018, the year of his last singles match.
On this week’s MLW Underground, we saw the heavily built-up War Chamber match between the newest heel faction The Calling going against MLW Champion Alex Hammerstone and The Second Gear Crew.
This was taped in New York City earlier this month with Joe Dombrowski and Matt Striker on the call.
We saw Davey Boy Smith Jr. picking his number for Battle Riot V out of the traditional tumbler as we were reminded this year’s match will be on next week’s show.
The upcoming Opera Cup tournament was also hyped.
The Calling (AKIRA, Delirious, Rickey Shane Page, Dr. Cornwallis) (w/ Raven) defeated MLW Champion Alex Hammerstone & The Second Gear Crew (Mance Warner, 1 Called Manders, Matthew Justice) in a War Chamber match
Delirious and Cornwallis were surprise entrants for Raven’s team.
Page and Manders were first in for their teams and it didn’t take Page long to use start using weapons as he took a wrench to Manders’ mouth. Manders came back with a spinebuster and gave as good as he got with the wrench to Page’s mouth.
AKIRA entered next, German suplexed Manders, and gave him some Kawada kicks to give his team the advantage. Justice was quickly out to even the odds and smash The Calling with a chair in the corners. Manders then picked up his partner and launched him into his opponents.
Delirious was the first surprise entrant for The Calling and hit two Panic Attack running knees as The Calling took control and slowed the match down again.
Hammerstone was in next to give each member of The Calling a German suplex and a power bomb to Delirious for good measure.
The huge masked man Cornwallis was out next to complete The Calling. He hit an impressive spinning heel kick to Hammerstone before his team began using weapons to get the advantage. Page took a fork to Justice’s head, Cornwallis used the wrench on Hammerstone, and AKIRA was using the chair.
Hammerstone seemed to get legitimately injured when AKIRA and Cornwallis each grabbed a leg and pulled them apart. From that point, Hammerstone was visibly in pain on the mat and crawled to the cage door to be helped to the back. This could have been the storyline reason his babyface team lost the match or even the reason they lost if the decision was switched. They even played it up at the end of the episode when MLW founder Court Bauer began talking about the future of the title. I would have maybe expected a more vicious kayfabe injury than a groin pull, so my guess it that it was legit.
Warner came out last and made the save for his team, taking out his opponents one at a time. Cornwallis was taken out by the cage door, Delirious got his bare foot bitten, and Page got chopped in the corner.
The Second Gear Crew started throwing chairs around, dislodging the barbed wire from the top of the cage. Manders and Justice tried a top rope Doomsday Device with a steel chair on AKIRA for the first pinfall attempt.
There was a parade of big moves as everyone had a chance to shine. Manders hit Cornwallis with a suplex and Delirious with a lariat, AKIRA suplexed Manders on his head and then Warner jabbed AKIRA and built up to a big flip, flop and fly Dusty Rhodes elbow.
Manders used a chair for a running knee strike, but hurt his leg. Justice then hit Page with an unprotected chair shot which seemed to wake him up as Page got to his feet quickly and hit a big boot.
Masked men then came out and helped get some tables into the ring. Page and Manders were bleeding as they went to the top rope where Manders ended up suplexing Page through the table that had two chairs set up on it.
Delirious broke up a pinfall by hitting his top rope splash, followed by Justice doing the same thing as Delirious tried to make the pin. Justice was on the receiving end of a running knee from AKIRA before falling victim to a DDT from Page for The Calling to pick up the pinfall win.
– Delmi Exo called out Taya Valkyrie and wants the MLW Women’s Featherweight title as Valkyrie “has one foot out the door anyway.”
– MLW Fusion will be returning in the summer.
– We saw an ambulance arriving at the building for Hammerstone as Bauer told Sam Laterna he had never seen Hammerstone in as much pain as he is in just now. They started talking about possibly vacating the title when Alex Kane interrupted and said they should crown him as he is the uncrowned king.
This brought in Davey Boy Smith Jr. who reminded him he beat him last week. The inevitable brawl ensued, but it quickly included the whole MLW roster as the announcers hyped up next week’s Battle Riot V match.
Raven will be inducted into this year’s Impact Hall of Fame, announced during Friday’s Victory Road special on Impact Plus.
The ceremony will take place at next month’s Bound for Glory in Albany, New York.
He was a member of the roster from 2003-2007 and then 2009-2010 during the company’s TNA era. During his run, he was a major player, working with the likes of Jeff Hardy, Jeff Jarrett, Christopher Daniels and others.
He had a short run as NWA World champion in 2005 during the aforementioned TNA era and also created the Clockwork Orange House of Fun match in 2003 — a match that made its way back this year as part of the Sami Callihan vs. Moose feud.
The 58-year-old hasn’t wrestled since 2020.
He will join eight others in their Hall of Fame: Sting (2012), Kurt Angle (2013), Jeff Jarrett (2015), Earl Hebner (2015), Gail Kim (2016), Abyss (2018), Ken Shamrock (2020) and Awesome Kong (2021).
For the first time since 2010, Raven will return to Impact Wrestling for Friday’s Against All Odds special on Impact Plus.
The reason: Sami Callihan and Moose will take part in a Clockwork Orange House of Fun bout Friday, Raven’s signature match during the TNA portion of his long career.
The former ECW Champion was in TNA from 2004 to 2007, returning in 2009 and staying through 2010. During that time, he created the weapon-centric, falls count anywhere match.
Callihan and Moose competed against each other at this month’s Slammiversary in a Monster’s Ball match, but that wasn’t enough to settle their recent rivalry.
While Raven won’t be wrestling, his last TNA appearance was in a win over AJ Styles in a November 2010 house show. He has wrestled just one match since 2020.
Here’s the current card for Friday’s show from Atlanta, Georgia’s Center Stage:
Impact World Champion Josh Alexander defends against Joe Doering
Knockouts Champion Jordynne Grace defends against Tasha Steelz
Raven’s Clockwork Orange House of Fun match” Moose vs. Sami Callihan
Honor No More vs. The Good Brothers, James Storm & two mystery partners
Deonna Purrazzo & Chelsea Green vs. Mickie James & Mia Yim
In the final MLW Underground before their restart Wednesday, Mikey Whipwreck and Sinister Minister took their war with Sabu to another level when they blew a fireball into his face during their main event match.
CM Punk and Raven continued their feud as they were on opposing teams in tag action.
Show Review:
CM Punk opened up the episode talking about his ongoing feud with Raven. He said their story is about a lot of disappointment, fallen heroes, and the death of a person who motivated him to join a wrestling school in the first place. Punk said he has sacrificed so much for this feud with Raven, and he will learn why being straight edge means he is better than him.
CM Punk and Michael Shane (w/ Francine) defeated Raven and Norman Smiley (w/ G.I. Hoe) (11:52 televised)
Punk and Shane took the mic to start. Punk mocked both Disney and Micky Mouse (they were in Florida) and said if there was ever evidence of people taking drugs and acid, that was it. He said the fans couldn’t coordinate their chants and had no unity, pointing to himself and Shane as having unity.
When the match started, Punk evaded Raven and quickly tagged out, delaying their eventual exchange. Smiley hit his big wiggle bodyslam on Shane before the commercial after which Punk and Raven finally went at it. Raven battered Punk and Shane around the ring, hitting a bulldog/clothesline combo. Smiley then joined in, knocking them both to the outside.
Smiley eventually got cut off and Shane and Punk took the advantage. Francine got involved and choked Smiley on the bottom rope behind the referee’s back. Raven frustratingly tried to jump in and free Smiley, but the referee correctly got him back on the apron. He was back in shortly to break up a pinfall after Shane hit Smiley with an elbow off the top.
Punk missed Smiley and took out Shane with a whoopie cushion as Raven got the hot tag. He hit right hands, clotheslines, knee lifts and drop toeholds on a chair. Smiley took Shane out of the ring before Raven hit Punk with the Raven Effect DDT. Francine broke up the count, but was quickly dragged into a catfight with GI Hoe. As the referee was distracted, Shane hit Hoe with a superkick.
Smiley tended to Hoe, but Shane hit him twice across the back with a chair. He then swung for Raven, missed, hit the top rope and the chair bounced back in his face. Raven then went for the DDT on Shane but Punk threw powder in his eyes and hit a DDT of his own to pick up the win.
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— The Extreme Horsemen were talking about their next set of matches when referee Jon Finnigan interrupted them with a note that said Steve Corino was suspended for 45 days. They said it was a conspiracy against the Horsemen.
— “Dr. Death” Steve Williams and The Sandman were up next. Williams was squatting while Sandman was drinking a beer. Sandman said they didn’t have to train, mocked Simon Diamond being a personal trainer, mocked C.W. Anderson for being “old school”, and mocked the Horsemen as a unit by whooing as they prematurely celebrated their upcoming title win.
— Ekmo (aka Umaga) of the Samoan Island Tribe entered the building and was mistakingly pointed in the direction of Da Hit Squad who were lying in wait for an ambush. They choked him out and cracked hit own luggage across his back.
— Sinister Minister and Mikey Whipwreck said they couldn’t be intimidated by Sabu’s mind games or his family legacy. Minister predicted the future when he said, “if you play with fire, you’re going to get burned”. Sabu and Bill Alfonso responded by promising that Whipwreck would get his ass kicked in revenge for attacking Sabu in the parking lot a few weeks ago.
— Da Hit Squad were outside the building celebrating their attack on Ekmo and were looking forward to their upcoming falls count anywhere match with the Samoans. They said when they get given toys, people get hurt. The Samoans are now playing by their rules, and they will never be the same again.
Sabu was on offense from the get-go. He hit a springboard leg lariat and locked in a camel clutch, but Minister distracted Sabu which allowed Whipwreck to kick him right in the face.
On the outside, Sabu threw a chair at Whipwreck’s face and set him up on a table. He climbed to the top rope, but Minister interfered again and pushed him off the top rope into the ring. Whipwreck followed and clotheslined Sabu from the top rope. After a break, there was a pushed over table in the ring and Whipwreck used it as a tag partner as he dropped Sabu with an atomic drop.
Sabu fought back and set Whipwreck on the table and went up top. Alfonso came in to help hold Whipwreck in place, but Whipwreck switched places with Alfonso and Sabu came crashing down on top of his manager. Whipwreck then hit the Whippersnapper. but Sabu kicked out.
Sabu smoothly reversed a backdrop into a camel clutch, but while the referee was distracted with Alfonso, Minister came in and set a fireball off in Sabu’s face. Sabu was writhing in pain in the corner as Whipwreck attacked him with a chair while Minister took Alfonso’s whistle and danced around Sabu. Whipwreck trapped Sabu’s arm in the chair and hit it with a second one. He then hit an Arabian facebuster with a chair onto Sabu’s injured arm to pick up the victory.
After the bell, Whipwreck hit him with the chair again and Alfonso eventually came to the aid of his fallen warrior to close the show.
CM Punk defeated Raven in the main event with a little help from a surprise ally.
Homicide defeated Michael Shane in a great show opener.
Show Recap:
A video package of highlights from last week kicked things off with the MLW debut of Mikey Whipwreck (with Sinister Minister) in the main event against Sabu followed by the formation of the alliance between Whipwreck, Minister, Christopher Daniels and Jerry Lynn — all at the expense of Sabu and Bill Alfonso.
We then cut to unseen footage as Alfonso and Sabu were backstage cutting a promo, Alfonso said he was sick of ending up in the hospital after every MLW show and Sabu grabbed their bags and left the building. But in the parking lot, Sabu was jumped by both Whipwreck and Lynn and got his head smashed against their car door. Sinister Minister then poked his head out the car window and told Sabu “An eye for an eye. Bye bye, a**hole”.
Homicide defeated Michael Shane (w/Francine) (8:54 televised)
This was a great match to start us off. They had a simple, yet effective, opening that ended with Homicide getting the upper hand and Shane retreating to Francine on the outside for some words of encouragement. The action quickened and Homicide floored Shane with a straight right to the jaw. Homicide crushed Shane with a jumping forearm and a running knee to the face as we went to commercial.
After the break, Homicide caught Shane coming off the top with a kick down below. A T-bone suplex followed for a two count and a Cop Killa looked to have the match won, but Francine broke the count behind the ref’s back. Homicide gave chase around the ring, but Shane caught him when Francine lured him into the ring, planting him face first and folding him up with a powerbomb.
Homicide locked in an STF and Shane tapped, but Francine had the ref distracted again. Homicide grabbed Francine on the apron which gave Shane the chance to roll him up, but Homicide kicked out. Homicide floored Shane with a big boot and went to the top rope but Francine got involved once again.
Homicide dragged her into the ring by her hair and she fell to her knees, so he rammed her headfirst into Shane’s groin as he was resting in the corner. He gave the two of them the old fashioned 10 punches in the corner but used Francine’s head and Shane’s groin as the crowd counted along.
He lifted her on his shoulder, but Shane hit him with a superkick and still couldn’t put him away as Homicide kicked out at two again.
Shane went for the Cop Killa, but Homicide reversed it and rolled Shane up, finally getting the winning three count in a great match.
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– We then heard from Whipwreck and the Sinister Minister backstage. Minister cut a promo while Whipwreck played with a puppet, a rubber duck, and talked to himself. Minister said he is there to build an army of darkness. He complained that some of he and Whipwreck’s so-called “friends” had made big money in the national promotions and forgot about them, the same with Sabu and Alfonso who ignored Whipwreck when he was down. They both warned them that they are back.
– The heavyweight title rankings were back this week. Jerry Lynn remained in #10, Homicide replaced Michael Shane at #9, Mikey Whipwreck debuted at #8 even with a loss last week, CM Punk was up one spot to #7, Raven stayed at #6, Masato Tanaka (#5) and Sabu (#4) switched places from last week, while Satoshi Kojima stayed at #3 behind the joint #1 contenders Terry Funk and Mike Awesome.
– Joey Styles told us that Steve Williams and Sandman have singles matches against CW Anderson and Simon Diamond in order to get a shot at the tag team titles. He also hyped up Paul London vs. Jerry Lynn before we saw footage from two weeks ago when Lynn badmouthed London and his family for him missing their previously scheduled match.
– Sabu and Alfonso were backstage and bandaged up after they were attacked. Alfonso was hyping up Sabu’s match at the next tapings in Orlando (no opponent was announced) before we cut to Sandman and Williams who jumped Anderson and Diamond backstage.
CM Punk defeated Raven (3:01 televised)
This was short due to the TV time cutting to the finishing sequence, but what we saw was good.
Simply Luscious came to ringside before the bell and Punk cut a promo to the live crowd telling them he is drug free, alcohol free, and better than all of them. Punk said it is not 4:20 time, but “It’s clobberin’ time.”
Styles caught us up on the ongoing storyline, saying that Simply Luscious has a history with someone from the MLW locker room and that someone has done her wrong in the past: either Punk or Raven.
We cut to later in the match where Raven hit his drop toehold onto a seated chair in the ring, but Punk hit a low blow to grab a breather. He then hit a running knee to the temple for a two count before repeating the move with a steel chair this time, but still only got two.
Out of nowhere, Raven reversed Punk and hit the Evenflow DDT. Punk looked out of it as Raven made the cover, but all of a sudden, Michael Shane was ringside and pulled Raven off, breaking up the cover. Shane rammed Raven headfirst into the ring post and rolled him back inside for Punk who hit his own version of the Evenflow DDT to pick up the win.
After the bell, Punk and Shane beat down Raven and gave him the drop toehold on to the chair twice but Norman Smiley made the save and chased Shane and Punk away. Smiley then challenged them to a tag match against he and Raven at the next tapings.
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Steve Corino cut a promo backstage to end this episode. He said that everything he said was going to happen in MLW has happened. He is going to take the title all over the world and told his contenders to get ready, and told Terry Funk he owns the MLW title and is beating him in world titles, three to two. He has the gold and is not letting go.
You know him best as Raven, ECW’s grunge-era cult leader. Before he was dark and brooding, he was loud, brash, and colorful as Scotty the Body in Portland Wrestling.
This week on the Portland Wrestlecast, Jim Valley talks to Raven about his time as Scotty the Body in Portland. Scotty was responsible for many firsts in the history of the territory: the first heel color commentator, the first valets (Ginger and Veronica) who were regularly involved in the territory, and the first wedding in Portland Wrestling history.
Raven talks about Roddy Piper, The Grappler, Steve Doll, Johnathan Boyd, and others. In addition, he gives his opinion on whether Portland was more traditional in its booking and presentation.
This episode takes you back nearly 30 years to December of 1989 as Raven gets his first chance to consistently work main events and get plenty of TV time.
Don’t forget to check out his podcast: The Raven Effect for more great stories.
A lawsuit filed by Marcus “Buff” Bagwell and Scott “Raven” Levy against WWE attempting to open the door for wrestlers to get royalties for appearances on the WWE Network was dropped officially yesterday in an agreement between the lawyers for both sides.
WWE had filed a lawsuit against Levy claiming he had made false statements about a prior lawsuit, where Levy and several other former wrestlers had sued to attempt to get employee status for wrestlers claiming they were not independent contractors. In that case, it was
thrown out due to the statute of limitations from when the deals were in place to when the lawsuit was filed having expired. Levy, on a Chris Jericho podcast, had apparently said that Vince McMahon had paid off a judge.
The agreement was made between lawyers that both lawsuits were to be dropped. However, in the settlement agreement, WWE retained the rights to refile the lawsuit against Levy if he were to ever sue WWE again on any contractual matters.
After recent depositions by WWE of Bagwell and Levy, their lawyers opened up settlement talks regarding dropping of the case.
Levy and Bagwell were represented by Klint Bruno and Matthew Peterson of Chicago and William H. Clendenen Jr. of New Haven. The WWE was represented by Jerry McDevitt of Pittsburgh, Jeffrey Mueller of Hartford, and Jonathan Tropp of Stamford.
