Raven's Most Hardcore ECW Moments, Early Onset Parkinson's, WrestleMania, TNA, WWE Run
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What are Raven's most memorable ECW moments?
Chris VanVleet!
It was so fun watching you interact with Dallas and Buff Bagwell here just a minute ago. It's like a reunion, I guess. Yeah, you know, it's like I don't talk to the boys much when I'm at home. Like, I'm not a phone person. I don't talk to pretty much anybody on the phone. But whenever I see anybody, it's like you just saw them yesterday. You know, that's kind of friendships we have. You build such a bond with certain people. You know, like me and Paige got quite a, you know, such a history together. And same with me and Buff. And... Yeah, it's great. Every time I see him, you know, it's like I just saw him yesterday and I'm going to see him tomorrow. And, you know, you have the same vibe, you know what I mean?
It's like the brotherhood of wrestling. Yeah, it really is. I mean, we go through so much physically between the matches, the psychological games the bosses play. Yeah. The flights, you know, crammed in and everything. You know, like a typical day is you're up at 6 a.m. to catch a 7 or 8 a.m.
How has early onset Parkinson's affected Raven's life?
flight, you know, and then you got to catch a flight. And after the flight, you got to go to the gym. And then you got to drive to the arena, which sometimes can be three hours. Sometimes it's, you know, five minutes, you know, but sometimes it's three hours. And then you got to get ready to wrestle. And then you got to, you know, change all your clothes again. take a shower. So, you know, two showers a day, you know, one after the match, one before from after working out, you know, it's a, it's a 12, 14 hour day. And then of course you want to go out and get some afterwards. You want to, uh, unwind after the match. So you, after the match, you wait till the show's over. And then you, you know, if you're riding with somebody who's on the last, you got to wait till the end of the card.
And, uh, Then you go out and then you drink till 1, 2, 3 in the morning and end up again at 6 a.m. What's so interesting about your chosen profession is fans only see the 10-minute match, 15-minute match on TV. They don't see the other, the rest of the week and everything else that goes into it. Yeah, and it's a 6, 7, 6, well, now I think it's down to four days a week. I don't know how many days a week WWE does. AEW, I think, does one night a week, but... But I don't know. I don't follow it anymore. At all? No, not at all. You don't watch any wrestling?
What inspired Raven's iconic wrestling character?
No. I stopped watching. I got so disenchanted when they did the Alliance angle back in 2002, maybe. You haven't been watching since then? Yeah. Oh, wow. Yeah, I stopped watching. I saw some pay-per-views where I was a guest at a party. They pay you to come in and sit around and watch the pay-per-view with everybody. I've done some of those. So I've seen some stuff. But not a lot, you know, I mean, I really, I just, a couple of reasons. One, I 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, you know, there's no time to read books or to watch other TV shows, you know, or to, you know, with my sleep disorder, you know, I need to take a nap every day.
And, you know, I need nine, ten hours sleep. And so... You know, so that cuts into my day. And then, you know, watching wrestling would just take up way too much time. I'm already addicted enough to the UFC and MMA, you know, to get addicted to back to wrestling again would be too much. But you were wrestling long after the invasion angle. Yeah, yeah. No, I still watched it. I still, I mean, I still did it. You know, I still watched it at the arenas when I was at a show. I'd still watch my buddies wrestle and, you know, or... or people that would ask me to watch their match. You know, the younger guys would ask me to watch their match on indie shows. But yeah, I didn't come out of the ring until COVID, I guess.
What's the sleep disorder that you have? They don't have a name for it, but I know another person that has the same thing. The basic gist is you wake up so many times in the night that when you wake up in the morning, you're still exhausted.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What are Raven's most memorable ECW moments?
0:00–1:24
2
How has early onset Parkinson's affected Raven's life?
1:24–2:46
3
What inspired Raven's iconic wrestling character?
2:46–9:13
4
What was the story behind the chair shot heard around the world?
9:13–15:29
5
What does Raven think about his time in WWE?
15:29–17:40
6
How did Raven's career evolve during his time in TNA?
17:40–19:28
7
What are the challenges of being a professional wrestler?
19:28–20:16
8
What are Raven's reflections on his documentary 'Nevermore: The Raven Effect'?
20:16–59:15
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