The unique member of Raven’s Nest, Stevie Richards was man is most closely related to Raven in ECW, even before Raven debuted for the corporate. In late 1994, Richards didn’t know who he was and was going by many alternative names. Stevie Flamingo, Stevie Polo, Stevie The Body, all references to characters that Raven had played in each WCW and WWE just a couple of years before, and promised that he was going to bring someone to ECW who was the true Scott Levy. After all, that man turned out to be Raven, and up until Raven left ECW in 1997, he and Richards were linked.
Richards was essentially Raven’s foremost whipping boy in The Nest. If Raven asked Richards to leap, Richards would ask “how high?” It was an abusive relationship at its core as Richards was routinely manipulated by Raven but he never really had an issue with it. During his first full 12 months under Raven’s wing, Richards would capture the ECW Tag Team Championships on two occasions together with his master as his partner, and by the top of the 12 months, Richards had a lacky of his own in the shape of The Blue Meanie. Throughout 1996, Richards and Meanie would form a powerful bond that in turn led to tensions between Raven and Richards that might ultimately boil over by the top of the 12 months, and given the success Richards, Meanie, and one other Nest member by the name of Super Nova had by parodying various wrestlers and popular culture celebrities, the trio formed their very own group; the Blue World Order.
Despite their immense popularity on the time, the bWo didn’t last long in ECW. Richards, Meanie, and Nova were all still related to Raven’s Nest, but as time went on, the connection between the 2 parties became strained and by the summer of 1997, Richards had actually retired from wrestling resulting from an injury, Meanie and Nova stuck together as a tag team, and Raven left for WCW.
Lately, Richards and the remainder of the bWo have all gone in very different directions. Nova was still wrestling sporadically up until 2022, but had already established himself as a licenced mortgage broker, a profession he began in 2007 after also initially retiring from the business. Meanie still pops up on the independent scene to this present day, together with his most up-to-date match coming for Create A Pro Wrestling in Latest York back in July 2025, and even made a special appearance at Ring of Honor’s Death Before Dishonor event in September 2025, accompanying Athena to the ring for her ROH Women’s World Championship match against Mina Shirakawa.
As for Richards, he has been retired from wrestling for a few years, but continues to be in the general public eye because of his YouTube channel, “The Stevie Richards Show,” where the previous ECW star talks about current events in wrestling, in addition to fielding questions from fans about all the things that he has done throughout his profession.