Who The Fuck Hired Raven?
By Scott Keith on 10 July 2013
Hey!
You probably won't remember any of this, but it popped into my head recently, and I figured I'd give it a shot. How big of a wasted opportunity was Raven's second ECW run? He popped up in a huge shock, won the tag titles with Dreamer. They started doing a whole thing where Dreamer was trying to trust Raven, but Sandman was totally against it and Raven kept comparing Sandman to his father. But then it seemed to all go away? I think there was some thing where Raven teamed with Mike Awesome for a little bit and then nothing? I know from Raven's second shoot that he ended up doing a self-imposed detox at some point during that run, but did they ever even bring any closure to that 3-way Raven/Dreamer/Sandman angle?
I wasn't paying huge amounts of attention to ECW on TNN at the time because the show kind of sucked, but I don't remember any particular payoff to that, no. Pretty sure Raven mostly flaked out on Heyman and then left him in the lurch to jump to WWE in 2000, but he was damaged goods by then due to years of addiction and WCW anyway.