WCW/ECW veteran Raven is best known for his grunge-inspired gimmick that he held through each promotions and early into WWE, which granted him a loyal fanbase that always quotes him to at the present time. Nevertheless, even before his Johnny Polo mouthpiece days, Raven had a really different gimmick early in his profession, which, in line with the veteran, was a homage to certainly one of his favorite wrestlers growing up.
“Well, I desired to be a chicken s**t heel, I loved chicken s**t heels. They’re fun, they’re funny, they get great heat, and everybody’s a tricky guy,” he recalled during an interview on “The Wrestling Classic” when asked about his ‘Scotty The Body’ character. “I used to be 220 kilos when everybody was 280, you realize? So, I wasn’t an enormous guy…So, I mean, I used to be an enormous fan of Jesse ‘The Body’ on commentary, so I like – that is why I liked the name, and it rhymed. You understand what I mean? Scotty The Body.”
Raven also explained that it was a joke at the identical time, because while he was built, he admits he didn’t compare to the fellows of his time, and since of that, he’d get heat and reactions from it.
“But as a substitute, people now just remember it and say, ‘Aw, he was so built back then!’ No, I wasn’t! I wasn’t! I just photographed well,” he expressed. “Everybody was 280 within the WWF, so you realize, even the 5’10 guys! Guys were 5’9, 280, and that is what Vince liked.”
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