WCW - Scotty Flamingo (Raven) debut match against Joey Maggs and a promo

[annabellejonesify]

21 years old?! he was 27 when he did this

[annabellejonesify]

quote the fag nevermore

[Moredread25]

Raven as a cruiserweight? What the fuck?

[ItsDuckSandwichFilms]

I like how he used that flowpot line again as Raven in TNA.

[Ghostrider623]

LOL

[Nedelchefff]

What year

[rosengalionheart]

i actually remember watching this on this on t.v he had some awesome matches with flyin byran

[Brockthepain]

Raven should have been the anti hero guy to beat Hogan Hogan for the title in 97

[MrEdwardtaylor1984]

quote the flamingo nevermore

[TheNeverm0re]

LOL :) When Raven was pinning him it looked like Joey Maggs was sucking his dick

[Psycho5275]

Quote the Flamingo...Nevermore

[TheTruthItHurts]

Whatever happened to this guy?

[bundybear666]

@TheTruthItHurts he is raven or do you mean the other guy??

[MizfitBeats]

Damn, Raven truly is a trend setter. He was Morrison before Morrison, then he was cool calm poetic heel before Jeff Hardy.

[Styme2002]

jt southern is jeff jarrett

[radonma]

@Styme2002 No he isn't

[fanofwwe]

@Styme2002 no hes not, he does look lik him tho but i searched jt southern nd he has his own wiki page!!!!

[GLITZandGLOOM]

Haha oh shit, I remember Joey Maggs. WCW's answer to Dale Wolfe. Nastiest mullet since Ricky Morton (who still sports that horrid shit).

[HotVanilla99]

@GLITZandGLOOM He kept that look till the end, RIP Maggs

[GLITZandGLOOM]

@HotVanilla99

Oh wow, he died? I didn't know that. One of the more well-known jobbers out there.

[HotVanilla99]

@GLITZandGLOOM Yeah, I think in '06. I used to see him around town quite a bit, good dude.

[11094DEREK]

i never thought raven ever looked like that im used to seeing him covered in blood lol

[DaveInOCNJ]

I have to admit, as big of a Raven fan as I was during his ECW days, I was never impressed with him before then...likely because he was never given the creative freedom to do what he knew he could do until he worked for Paul E.

[toodarkmark]

I remember this. Wow, I'm glad he didn't do the Genius rhyme gimmick much longer.

[ERock471]

my favorite scott anthony character is johnny polo in 90s wwf.. that was incredible

[HipnosisV1Games]

UNCLE SCOTTY!! (Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap)

[x2xtreme360]

Does no one know who JIM MORRISON is!? JOHN Morrison is a rip off of JIM Morrison. Not Scotty Flamingo.

[eatabullet]

@x2xtreme360 I know I was saying that even raven had that Jim Morrison look to him then, they just didn't go with a character like WWE did with John Morrison. We're all aware of where WWE got the character.

[quietriotfan1976]

Amazing that this is Raven in the begining. Joey Maggs was a excellent worker who passed away too soon.

[bdscavenger]

is jt souther really van hammer? raven looks completely different then. he put on weight and mussel mass by the time he became raven.

[nighteye002]

@bdscavenger no JT is not van hammer he was actually fueding with van hammer at the time of this match he brought scotty flemingo (raven) in to help him against van hammer

[1981CrueHead]

Raven looks like John Morrison with less Roids. Joey Maggs is dead now.

[cripchulo]

Sheamus=Goldberg

Beth Phoenix=Chyna

Jack Swagger=Kurt Angle

[MREB414]

Jumpin Joey Maggs Forever!!



[WCWite]

Wow Raven looked cute there so young.

[Whaledignity]

"flyin' bryan's too nice a guy"

[DopeisBack]

damn i remember flamingo but i never put 2 and 2 together. had no clue that was raven. i miss old wcw with that blue ring floor.. takes me back to my childhood

[RicoLen1]

Who is JT Southern? He looks very familiar too.

[DuncanoBoydo]

@RicoLen1 thats what i thought, i was thinkin val venusbut it cant be can it?

[ManiacFresh]

@RicoLen1 it's Jeff Jarret. no, really.

[TheArtofUTube]

Ventura was a great announcer.

[jobber1976]

JT Sothgern is BG James with ablonde wig how gay

[kttz6c]

what wcw show was this?

[gorilocks]

you know john morrison totally stole raven's flamingo's gimmick

[MCJay2daSun]

wow how many guys started in wcw or wwf/e in the late 80s and early 90s and made the switch between those 2 and sometimes ECW? haha this is crazy and why does JT southern look like a bootleg Jeff Jarrett

[gtz1975]

RIP Joey Maggs

[mrtrin]

Is JT Southern supposed to be a poor man's Michael PS Hayes?

[TheBigwwefan1000]

what ever happen to joey maggs?

[gtz1975]

@TheBigwwefan1000 He died in 2006 :(

[wtcvidman]

Before this, he was Scotty the Body in Portland Wrestling. I have some matches with him. I believe that was in the 80's. He was there at the same time Piper, Buddy Rose & others were. I think Art Barr was also there as Beetlejuice. The Portland matches I have are mixed with a bunch of other wrestling organizations' matches, so I could be wrong.

[speedbuggy]

Scotty Flamingo & Johnny Polo (another gimmick by Scotty Levy AKA Raven) were so different from the Raven character, it's hard to believe they're the same person.

[TheHardyzfan87]

i still cant believe this was raven

[wholefnshow1]

what year was this? when did he go to wwe to  become johnny polo?

[bbvol5]

Damn he do put me in the mind of Morrison lol.

[mramo]

I can see a resemblence between Flamingo & John Morrison when I watch this match.

[CircaMay85]

Im glad he went to the grunge look... he looked nerdy as hell .. but he always kept the spoiled rich kid background...

[madamarsh]

omg is that from like the 80's. i'm in shock, thats not the raven i knw and love lol

[dirtybutter]

Raven comes in to Village In where I work to eat all the time.

Med- Well 5/.oz Steak with Country potatoes and Ov. Med Egggs

[RealGoldenhoney007]

Cool, is that in Atlanta?

[dirtybutter]

No it's in Virginia Beach. I forget the name if the wrestling promotion he wrestles for. He comes in about once a month. He tips the cook $5 though. Helluva guy!

[Crookmeisteren]

he actually looks normal here

[bazzaxtreame]

wow its soooooo werid to see raven like this in his early days compared to how dark he looks now

[1985HotRod]

t5his is dumber than he*&

[Slacker4LiFe247]

Haha Joey Maggs WCW very own Brooklyn brawler. This guy was always on WCW pro, WCW Saturday Night, WCW worldwide. Never made it on nitro lol

[CircaMay85]

Brooklyn Brawler from Baltimore that's weird...

[marcus813]

Raven looked a lot like John Morrison looks these days.

[ez8195]

Raven as a cocky pretty boy? wow

(head explodes)

[fiendz23]

is that john morrison ?

[DEANGELATOR]

nah it's raven but they do kinda look alike

[eatabullet]

Fuck the John Morrison!!!!! And every new star WWE puts out now. Nothing but a bunch of talentless boobs that have to resort to using old WCW style characters in order to make a name for themselves.

Side note* Hey vince, come up with an original idea and see how it works out for you. Wait... you did that with the ministry and it failed and you talk shit about WCW yet WWE's biggest draws are old WCW guys and WWE steals old WCW material. HAHAHA. And that was my typical youtuber moment. :P

[RaVeN8nevermore]

Even the ministry of darkness was a gothic take on ravens flock, even the crusifix on the takers symbol was taken from the controversial sandmans crusifixion by raven which he had to appologise for after!

[eatabullet]

@RaVeN8nevermore This is true. Vince can't do anything worth a damn on his own. WWE got this big by stealing other talent/ideas then buying the companies that produced them.

[Bloodsport1]

@eatabullet Dude that a good point you made. Most fans complain how WCW and TNA used WWE old stars but the WWE does the same thing and nobody ever mention that except for you.

[eatabullet]

@Bloodsport1 Thanks. It's true. Undertaker? WCW guy. Flair, Rhodes, Don the dragon Wilson, Lex Lugar, Andre, Slaughter, All of these guys really made WWF because Vince went after the best Talent in WCW. And he still does this a lot with other companies but no one will admit it since he buys the companies before he puts them on WWE. Cena, Batista, Punk, All of these guys were in indy promotions first then vince bought them and made them big stars that suck. What About Edge you say? WCW Jobber.

[Bloodsport1]

@eatabullet even Scott Steiner said that in a shoot promo. Its true and people bash TNA for having plenty of WWE guys but dont WWE have ROH main event star Bryan Danielson.

[rjr0228]

@Bloodsport1 wwe only has 2 roh guys

[proddster]

@eatabullet but some of those guys were nobodies in WCW. taker was a mid carder at best, Austin was fired cuz he, according to Bischoff, had no charisma. yes, Vince bought out WCW guys. Punk was in ROH/TNA. had an awesome feud with Samoa Joe while he was in ROH. Cena and Orton, Vince didnt think they would do as good as they did so he sent them to the minors. Orton and Cena have had feuds dating back to OVW

[toyotaecw]

@proddster

That just shows you the problem with the Wrestling business:

Great booker+bad businessman=Paul Heyman

Good Businessman+badbooker=Vince McMahon

Dumbass=Eric Bischoff

[manicmacintosh]

@toyotaecw You're calling Vince McMahon a bad booker? And you have the nerve to call Bischoff a dumbass...

[toyotaecw]

@manicmacintosh

Yes I am calling VKM a bad booker. The Invasion flopped because Vince's ego got in the way. Bischoff is the reason wrestling sucks. The inflated salaries that he gave wrestlers makes it difficult for smaller companies to compete with WWE. Bischoff tried to make TNA into WCW, which didn't work. Yet even more proof that I am right.

[manicmacintosh]

@toyotaecw What? Because Vince botched an angle that means he can't book properly? Don't be so silly. You're talking as if you're in the business, people like you are annoying, just because you've seen a few shoot interviews you think you know everything!

[lcsa60]

@eatabullet By the way it's Raven who was the first to see Punk's potential...

[lilwdog]

you both put up a great argument but still its all about money and entertainment and whatever WWE and TNA management has to do to win fans you better believe they will do.

[ForeverHardcore1313]

Mmmm. lol!

[RedCancer]

lol, his voice cracks so often in this promo. He must be nervous.

[ps3tna]

scotty flamingo the ORIGINAL john morrison

[RedCancer]

Rick Rude, the original Soctty Flamingo

[MassTransit999]

wow thats who i thought it was before i clicked the video...then i saw the title...

[mooky9669]

so true...then he was Johnny Polo and managed the Quebecers in WWE

[Renthefaceless]

@ps3tna Jim Morrison... the ORIGINAL john morrison. lol

[tomwalker389]

Never knew David Coverdale was Scotty's manager.

[havok667]

Nice to see he even rapped back then, even if that doesn't have much on Burn in Hell

[explodingninja]

john morrison anyone?

[xfghkhjfsejid]

lol i know!

[eatabullet]

I hope you mean this is where Vince got the idea for John Morrison. Right?

[thuggin83]

THANK U!!! Ive been lookin all over for this!!! Tha evolution of Raven through pro wrestling is just Amazing!!!