Raven Full Career Shoot Interview with Hannibal
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- Raven Full Shoot Interview
Multiple time ECW & NWA World Champion and Former WWE/WCW/Impact Star Raven aka Johnny Polo does an extended career interview with The Hannibal TV covering such topics as his days in Portland Wrestling with the likes of Billy Jack Haynes, his first run in WCW as Scotty Flamingo, friendship with Steve Austin as well as a misunderstanding he had with Austin in later years, his time in WWE as Johnny Polo, managing The Quebecer, Adam Bomb and occasionally wrestling, working in the WWE Office with Bruce Prichard, Pat Patterson and Vince McMahon, his friendship with Shane McMahon, interactions with The Undertaker, going to ECW under his new Raven Character, witnessing The Sandman having an overdose, the controversial angle he did with Sandman that led to Kurt Angle throwing a backstage fit and not joining ECW, thoughts on Paul Heyman, why he went to WCW, thoughts on The Flock members, the creative control he had there, working with Goldberg, Kevin Sullivan, Eric Bischoff and others, why he left WCW, returning to ECW and the dark time he went though in those years, joining WWE and having a record Hardcore Championship reign, why the Matt Hardy angle was killed, thoughts on his run in Impact Wrestling, Billy Corgan's NWA and much more!
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I can listen to The Franchise and Raven all day! Two of the most honest guys in the business. Thank you!
And the 2 best ecw world champs ever dont forget that lol
Met Raven in 2003 when I worked indies. A lot of people bought into the reputation that he was a dick. He was never rude, mean, difficult, and he never insulted anyone. He simply knew how to handle himself on the indy scene- get your money upfront, don't do something that's gonna get you injured, and know you're the one drawing money- not some local guy who nobody ever heard of.
Me, and another worker picked him up at the airport in a rental. We got 10 miles down the road and he said we needed to get a different vehicle- his back was in a lot of pain. We turned around, traded for a minivan, which was better for everyone. From then on, any time I got a rental, I got a minivan. But, the other guy I was with thought Raven was being a prick for wanting something with adequate room. So yeah, his bad reputation is undeserved I think.
Great story bro...
No actually I mean it...😁
I'd have loved to be in that minivan listening and chillin with one of my favourite wrestlers of all time...👍🏻🤘
This is the 2nd Raven interview I've watched recently, and he seems like such a great positivr person. He's so (sometimes comically) honest about his life and career. And he never speaks negatively about anyone. Even people who he knew or thought didn't like him, he would have something positive to say about them. He's a great story teller and awesome memory recall. A true veteran of the sport with such an iconic character.
Raven was one of the best hardcore champions
@@bodhi8297 for sure raven had a awesome career
ECW title reigns were way more honorable in my opinion
@@danielwilson9724 yeah 100% if anything the hardcore title run is one of the least honourable achievements I look at when I see Raven. I think his TNA run too, was amazing.
The Hardcore Title Ruled R.I.P. KillaCrash
No wrestlers in the last 23 years could carry his jockstrap!
Are you the jockstrap on ?
Well put Lezlie...Raven was my all-time favorite !
He is one of the best talkers in pro wrestling history!
23 years? Really in 97? 😂😂 uhhhhhh, I hope u mean guys that started in 97, even then your not right 😂. Its okay. Everyone has their opinion.
@@Bloodth3Butcher who is your favorite Nick ? Bella twins or maybe the Young Bucks ?
One of the greatest minds in the business. I'm glad I was able to meet Raven
Now THIS is the best shoot Intereview with a wrestler I have ever watched, no ifs, ands or buts! I hope you do another one with Raven in the future! Fuck, this was so damn good!
Check out lex Lugers too. He was an awesome guy in it. True legend.
Vince should hire Raven to fix his mess. Raven is the man when it comes to wrestling IQ.
dont forget, Raven can be a big mess by himself....I just say: lifestyle^^
He's legitimately a fucking genius he's smart as fuck.
Quote the Raven--Nevermore...hahaha.
There is nothing to fix. The WWE isn't broken...it just sucks. This is just a regular thing in the entertainment business. I promise, there will be a day when the wrestling business will be booming once again, it may not be WWE, but it will be someone.
I can’t even imagine what would fix this mess at this point
Thank God for wrestling shoots, I miss the 90s so much, nice way to relive these stories
I have enjoyed getting to know "Raven" while I've been listing his items on eBay! I'm honored to be his consignment seller! Thanks for sharing this interview. It was very interesting. Keep up the good work!
Thanks for asking my question. I really enjoyed this interview!
Love this. I’m from Iowa, and appreciate you man. Good interview. Raven is highly intelligent and I appreciate that
Dreamer vs Raven was probably the best long running feud of all time
Thanks for uploading this interview. Raven is interesting and entertaining!
Raven is, and always has been, one of the greatest interviews in the business! The guy loves to talk and I love to listen!
I like how he phrased "The fans may get fooled but they're not fools.
That cleverness is the ingredient wrestling needs to be magical.
In my opinion, when wrestling is done right, its the greatest show on Earth.
thank you for a great interview hannibal...i really am a fan of your work.
Glad you enjoy it!
Great interview!
Easily one of my favorite wrestlers of all time
Raven is great and so entertaining!
Thanks for this, great listen like always from Raven, could listen to him all day!!do the Franchise Shane Douglas next, another brilliant mind
Hannibal undisputed king of the shoot interviews, questions are well thought out & delivered intelligently.
Keep up the great work sir....
Raven is my favorite wrestler of ALL TIME!
"Just got out of college hit one hundred women" raven
Raven was a great person. Amazing ECW contribution who created or pushed the most legendary acts or moments. Dudley Boys, BWO, making Kurt Angle walk out of ECW, and Tommy Dreamer surviving the angle and becoming a huge star
I've been a fan of Raven since I was in 8th grade and I'm 37 now
I completely forgot I didn't finish this interview last year when it came out and I just seen it in my related RUclips videos on here and knew I had to finish it and I just did!!! Great job with the interview Hannibal! Raven was one of my favorites growing up and he's always funny and entertaining to listen to and hear stories about him and I appreciate his love dnd respect for the wrestling business. He's definitely someone I still look up to this very day! I didn't know he wrote comic books tho lol, I gotta check those out some day!. Anyways thanks again and mad respect to Hannibal for always giving his fans what they want as far as his material and everything he does on here! Keep up the fantastic work my friend !💯👍👏✊🤘🏾🤼♂️🕺😆
This was so great! Thank you Devon, for all you do, we appreciate you and all your hard work 🙏
Thank you this just made my day 🙏🏽
After this interview I can’t tell ya how much more I appreciate Raven very intelligent guy and very cool too
i'm not a shark, i'm not a fish, i'm not an avalanche. i'm a man. -john tenta
R.I.P Mudslide
Amen
Tell Arn that he wasn't an amateur
Ppl forget when he was Johnny Polo in the wwf he was producing segments for Raw..extremely underrated in all aspects of the business.
Raven, I remember you from Oregon in the 80’s PNWW. I was 5-6 years old and you were Scotty the Body back then. Y’all used to come to Sweethome and put in house shows! I never knew you were Raven until not too long ago. Thank you for all the memories! You and Art (beetleguese) were my favorites! Rip Art Barr!
Hannibal, have I told you you're my favorite channel lately?
One of my favorite wrestlers ever. Glad you asked some different questions too. Most interviewers ask him the same ones.
Much appreciated
Hannibal we need more Raven!! Your shoot interviews are the best!!!!! Keep it up guy!!!!
Raven has a great mind for the business! Great interview ✌️🍻
Warlord and raven shoots have been really entertaining I'm glad you brought them to the fans
Two guys I have a TON of respect for! Thank you for doing this interview with one of my favorite Wrestlers of ALL time !!!!! Much love, Hannibal!
You're welcome Raven! I will ALWAYS stick by you too! Fan for life right here! "Quote the Raven, nevermore!"
@@michaelhamilton313 lmao
@@velvetpilot2008 Is that funny.
Raven had such a FORCE everywhere he went. Love this dude and another great interview, Dev.
If either WWE or AEW were to hire Raven as a booker, you’d see a drastic improvement in the overall product. If you don’t believe me, there’s a two hour video here on RUclips where Raven talks about psychology in the wrestling business, and it’s brilliant. Everything Raven says makes so much sense, he gets how the business works.
Learning So Much From This Interview, These Stories Are Greatness
Too bad his United States title run was so short, literally a day. He brought the best out of Goldberg. He wasn’t necessarily wasted in WCW, but I always thought of what if you drop the Raven character mid 96 through 1997 WWF. Def IC champ material, and at the time the product was becoming more edgier.
Imagine the matches vs Austin, HBK, Hart etc. who are around his size, and Undertaker and Mankind. Just crazy possibilities
I loved the whole Raven and the Flock. I think they could've did more with. He should've been the World Heaweight champion. Especially when you gave it to Jeff Hardy. #whataboutraven
@@waundale dx vs flock. now this would be like motley crue vs the misfits
WWF misused him too.
Hannibal if you could get someone to talk about the Portland territory in depth that would be a fascinating interview. There's only a few people left who know. Raven, Billy Jack, Grappler and David Schultz come to mind. When they're gone, the history goes with them. The place was absolutely on fire in the 70s and early/mid 80s. How did they build that heat? How were the matches booked? Matches called? Etc
Raven and Al Snow...two of the best interviews ive ever listened to about the business
Thank you for this Hannibal 💯
Fantastic interview. My favourite so far.
Raven was definitely one of the guys who made Goldberg. Not only is he very intelligent and dedicated to his characters, but he's very business like. He wasn't playing politics to the point of hurting a promotion. He made you suspend disbelief.
Just my opinion but Raven to me is my favorite wrestler of all time I always related to his character as a kid he helped me through my rough childhood
This is the best Raven Interview on the internet!
THANK YOU Raven....and you Hannibal...TY
Always enjoyed Raven on TV, seems like a good dude that’s low key super smart. Hannibal any chance you could get ahold of Kurt Angle now that he’s not under contract?
This is possibly the most intelligent pro wrestler, past, present, or future or deserves to be among them after watching/listening to this shoot interview. He should be in a senior executive role or a booker role in a wrestling promotion somewhere.
I wish Raven would get back in shape again, so he could have one last impact match
One of the all time greats. Raven rules.
Great interview, awesome job guys!!!
Hannibal, thank you so much for this interview.
"Not being a tough guy". Really? I just sit down and watched a 6 disc ECW Tommy Dreamer vs Raven DVD box set. Raven was beyond tough and able to not feel pain!
"That's crazy.."
-Hannibal 2020
"Ya' know?"
-Raven 2020
Thank you Hannibal! 🙏🏻🏆 #shootking
Awesome video! Favorited!
In my opinion, Raven is a great interview. Kudos to Hannibal for letting him go.
Raven seems awesome, great interview!
Raven one of the underrated wrestlers 👌🏾
Raven is such a nice and intelligent guy. Devon great interview. One of your best. Keep up the good work. Also you should think about doing a show in St. Catharines. Take care Sean
Raven's best shoot interview.
Raven and Jericho were my favourites in WCW. Outstanding talents. I also thought Vampiro was a great wrestlers but maybe not as good on the mic as these two.
Jericho and Raven were best during their time in WCW in my opinion.
Was it Halloween Havoc '98 where Jericho had that great in-ring promo mocking Raven? "I always wanted to work with the great Raaaaaaven!"
Same. I had WCW Revenge and would put belts on Raven and Jericho. They must've won 1 million tag title matches.
Completely agree, always enjoyed both of them in '96 - '98. I remember when Jericho did a promo on Raven. "What about you? What about Raisin?"
@@tboland728 loved that game
Thanks raven im from Pittsburgh I cheer and Kurt always got a pop in the burgh
Raven (Scott) was and prob still is an excellent wrestler. I first saw him in WCW in late '97 I think. Loved his character, the gimmicks, the hilarious lines, the Flock and their nonsense. It was great stuff.
thanks bro, raven was my favorite wrestler of the late 90s, i loved the steroided eddie vedder gimmick
I think Eddie Vedder was far from the type of guy he portrayed Raven as.. Lol
@@danielwilson9724 raven was trying to go for that 90s grunge style, as a kid he looked a lot like eddie vedder and those guys to me
@@kerpal321 tying a flannel around him is honestly the most " grunge" thing in his look. His hair, shirts & jackets were way more metal and his attitude had a metal kid/ depressive goth angle to it, especially with the Edgar Allan Poe influence as well
@@danielwilson9724 well thats what i thought as a 13-14 year old kid at the time, to me he looked like vedder and chris cornell and had the nihilist grunge attitude, but then again i also really thought that RVD was jean clauds real life twin brother who just decided to get into pro wrestling instead of acting in movies
@@kerpal321 I love the RVD thing you thought man!! 😂 thts awesome! Its crazy the shit we'll think as a youngster ain't it? And yeah I understand, Im just telling u as a drummer of thrash/death/metal , extreme metal etc literally my whole life Im just giving ya the scoop on what he really was to the more " alternative" lifestyle kids.
I grew up watching raven in wcw and ecw. Not used to seeing him as a old man now
I'm not sure whether I imagined this or not, but I think I saw Raven, in WWF, do this move on one of the shows like Heat or Shotgun Saturday Night or whatever in which he got on the top rope, put his knee on the back of the guy's head and came down on it in a facebreaker kind of move.
Raven’s transformation into Toecutter is almost complete
I believe Billy Jack with the coke, my dad worked at a plant in the 80s and 90s where he was a higher up and on the safety team... He used to tell me stories about pushing the pow all over the plant because you needed clearances to get into different areas due to safety and theft. They really tested their employees there and what kinda people they were since it was a production based job, one way to weed out knarks my dad took a newbie on his first couple days of training which he has him smoke a bowl of pot with him while on some down time... Times sure have changed lol
We need a part 2 of Raven
We Need Hannibal at 500,000 Subs..He Deserves It!! My Favorite Wrestler and Podcaster..Thank You Sir!!!
Yay. Raven was a natural. Even Scotty the Body was some extremely good work.
I was at a show in Bakerfeild where Raven and Sandman tagged team a rat in the hotel that followed them
After the bar back in 06-07
This is a great interview with one of the best workers and minds for the business. If WWE was smart, they would replace Bruce Prichard with Raven.
Bruce will always have seniority over anyone like that..
This dude could have been huge back in the day.. Still had a good run but WWF/WCW wasted some potential for sure
Especially when he had the flock. Would've been cool to see him and Bray Wyatt go against each other in their prime.
Or TNA in its early years. He should've been put over in his feud against Jarrett, became champion and then put over AJ Styles. Even though Raven was the heel, the audience popped for him over Jeff.
Raven was great, especially in wcw. Wish they would've ran w his original gimmick another 6 to 9 months n see how it went.
I loved ECW raven
Great interview but I was really hoping for more adds I don’t think you have enough
One of the best minds in the business. How nobody is employing this man is criminal! Or at least using him in a developmental stage in wrestlers training because his psychology is second only to Jake Roberts maybe.
Your comparing jake Roberts to this genius?
proof tony Khan is really just Ditzy Carter in a suit - he hasn't hired Raven.
Lezlie Alabaster u don’t agree with Roberts psychology and understanding of the business?
Jake Roberts had a hand in Raven's training so yeah he should of picked up some psychology
Great interview
Al Tomoko,BCTV in the early 80's....damn I'm old.
Raven awesome wrestler loved his hard-core work
THE SUMMER CAMP STORYLINE WITH BEULAH, AND TOMMY DREAMER AND RAVEN WAS A GREAT ANGLE // ALSO THE STORYLINE WITH SANDMAN VS. RAVEN AND RAVEN TURNS SANDMAN'S SON AGAINST HIM AND BECOMES A RAVEN FAN, ALL THE STORYLINES WERE GREAT IN ECW, BEST FEDERATION, EVEN IF JIM CORNETTE SAYS OTHERWISE....
Agree!! I love Cornette and could listen to him talk wrestling for hours on end but his opinion of ECW was always very old timer-ish to me. I mean come on Corny, u booked for Smokey Mountain and OVW and u got a bad opinion of ECW? 😂
Definitely in my top 5 favorite wrestling personalities!
Scotty the body was one of my favorites in Portland.
Best Raven interview
RAVEN VS. THE SANDMAN FOR THE ECW HEAVYWEIGHT BELT AT HOLIDAY HELL 1995 ECW'S NYC DEBUT, I ATTENDED AND HAD A RING SIDE SEAT, GREAT MATCH☆☆☆☆☆
Another good one Hannibal
Scotty is the best mind in the business. I believe he can help any company
Raven is a genius, good worker, good character, polite, energetic guy & he also has a horsecock too.
Where the horse cock comment come from? 😂
Raven was my guy!!!! I miss what about Raven? I did that in my Stone Cold Steve Austin voice!!!! Lol All jokes aside Raven was the man!!!
Raven Became My Favorite When I Started Watching WCW, I Always Rewatch The Triple Threat Match He Had With DDP & Chris, Also The Fued With Mortis/ Kanyon, Then Saturn...Also,Always Enjoy The Stories He Shares In These Interviews.
STiiLL Rockin The Cut Offs & Boots,Raven Is The Man 🤘
I believe 100% of what Billy Jack says because I have a friend who has the same exact mentality as him and they don’t lie
Good to see Raven has been taking care of himself lol
Man Wrestling was great these days!!!, me and my uncle would flip back n forth between Nitro and Raw EVERY MONDAY!!,, these wer the guys I rooted for ! Lol most people root for The Rock, Stone Cold etc.. I always liked the lesser known underdogs like Raven, Hardcore Holly, Saturn, even The Brood lolol Buff Bagwell was my man back then too! The Attitude days really need to be cherished!
this is gonna b good
It was good
These shoot interviews won’t exist with current gen wrestlers. Or at least will fail the test of time. We all know the Internet killed the business. Scripting promos and going PG killed the business as well. It’s so boring today. People just want to hear about the good ol days of wrestling from legends like Raven ✊