A significant fixture of ECW within the ’90s, Raven wrestled for many main promotions in America throughout his profession, which has nonetheless not technically ended. An inductee into the TNA Corridor of Fame in 2022, Raven doesn’t watch wrestling regardless of being concerned within the trade because the late ’80s.
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Raven elaborated on “Busted Open” as to why he does not tune in to observe wrestling.
“If I watch it, I am gonna wanna do it,” Raven started to say earlier than noting the suggestions he is heard. “From all the pieces I’ve heard, It is ten minutes of fine stuff and an hour-and-a-half of crap for probably the most half. When it has been carried out at its greatest, I have been part of it. I used to be already part of it, I did it for 30-plus years. I simply haven’t any curiosity in it anymore.”
The 2-time ECW World Heavyweight Champion remarked that he has seen and carried out all of it in wrestling and that all the pieces that’s being carried out has already been carried out, however asserted that there’s nothing unsuitable with that as all the pieces is a reinvention of the wheel. Raven additionally revealed that when he seems at exhibits, he doesn’t watch the in-ring motion and socializes as a substitute.
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“The gaping holes would drive me nuts and I’d both bury the folks doing it which — why would I need to get that sort of warmth?” Raven stated concerning being concerned in professional wrestling exhibits at the moment. “That is one more reason why I do not wanna watch wrestling now could be as a result of I maintain the wrestling enterprise to the next commonplace and it is a enterprise that is at all times been held to the bottom commonplace.
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