Over the last few months, former ECW, WCW, WWE, and TNA star Raven has shared the story of his career and battles with drug addiction, most notably through the documentary “Nevermore: the Raven Effect.” He remained an active figure in wrestling, appearing for AEW in early 2020 and having a run in MLW in 2023 and 2024, managing the stable The Calling.
Despite nearly forty years in the wrestling buisness, Raven revealed on “Insight with Chris Van Vliet” that he hasn’t watched wrestling in over twenty years.
“I don’t follow it anymore,” Raven said. “No,not at all…no. I stopped watching…I got so disenchanted when they did the Alliance angle back in 2002 maybe? Yeah, I stopped watching.I saw some PPV’s where I was a guest at a party. They pay you to come in and sit around and watch a PPV with everybody.So I’ve seen some stuff, but not a lot. I just…a couple of reasons. One, I just got so disenchanted. And then I just never started watching again,because I’ve already seen,done everything,you know,that there is.
“And I’m a completist, so I’d have to watch everything. And…there’s no time to read books or to watch other TV shows, you know, or…with my sleep disorder, I need to take a nap every day. I…need 9 to 10 hours of sleep. So that cuts into my day. And watching wrestling would just take up way too much time. I’m already invested enough in the UFC and MMA. To get invested back into wrestling again would be too much.”
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