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Originally Posted by Loose Cannon
What about WCW? He had he fans of course, but never really amounted to anything past mid-status. He's had the same gimmick forever and that's all he can really do. I was a huge Raven fan too, but saying he's better then the entire WWE roster is crazy I think. The only thing we can base who's better then who is by drawing power, ticket/merchendise/video sales, main eventing matches consistently and crowd reactions. And Raven was never really at the top there in WWE or WCW, which are the only two companies really worth mentioning.
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That was back then. Wrestling fans and their perspective on the sport has evolved over the years. Raven was really over in ECW in the mid-90s and then when he went to WCW, then later WWE, he wasn't over as much. But that was because a majority of wrestling fans (marks) didn't really understand him or his gimmick. Back in those days everybody wasn't a "smart mark" like today and so therefore most marks didn't really get the character of Raven. But these days so many wrestling fans are on the Internet and there all reading about things that go on backstage.
For instance, Matt Hardy wasn't hugely over the last few times we saw him on WWE TV but since they fired him and the whole story broke out about the love triangle between himself, Lita, and Edge he's all over the place. Now some are considering Hardy the current "hot commodity" in wrestling. Everywhere you look there's something about Matt Hardy. When his music played during Edge and Lita's "wedding ceremony" the crowd went absolutely nuts and he wasn't even there. The same concept would apply to Raven. He's been all over the Internet the past few years and if it was announced that he was signing with WWE Internet fans the world over would be shocked and many people who don't currently watch WWE programming would be tuning in. I guarantee if Raven was in WWE now and was booked right he would be insanely over.