The WCW career of Raven proved he could deliver strong performances on a major stage. Raven worked quite well in WCW with new and old opponents. ECW fans got the best of Raven in a main event role, but the mid-card presence shouldn’t take away from what he accomplished in WCW. Raven was among the most consistent mid-carders to have strong matches and receive crowd reactions.
WCW had a chance to make Raven a bigger star, but he always hit a ceiling. There were still plenty of impressive rivalries for Raven during his time in the promotion. Even during an earlier WCW run in the 1990s as Scotty Flamingo saw him contributing before fans knew him for the gimmick that would define his career. Every feud from Raven’s entire WCW career will be compared to see which stands out for worst and best.
8 Stevie Richards
The first storyline for Raven in WCW saw his Raven's Nest ECW ally Stevie Richards at his side during various promos with them sitting in the crowd. Richards was the overly excited sidekick that appeared to continue teaming with Raven like their previous relationship.
However, this one had a shift in how Raven viewed Richards by attacking him. The debut match of Raven under his new gimmick in WCW saw him easily defeating Stevie and sending him packing. Richards didn’t have a long-term deal with WCW like Raven to keep around.
7 Brian Pillman
Raven first worked as Scotty Flamingo in WCW during the early 1990s trying to break out for the first time. Brian Pillman feuded with Flamingo over the Light Heavyweight Championship before WCW had a cruiserweight division in future years.
The matches were quite impressive for the time with more athleticism and fast-paced offense that fans were used to. Unfortunately, there was minimal impact since WCW made the light heavyweight division feel like a smaller part of the show to the other names.
6 Scotty Riggs
Raven starting The Flock faction featured a lot of the misfit wrestlers in WCW looking for a chance following his cult-like leadership. A rare story of someone Raven recruited not wanting to initially join The Flock was Scotty Riggs.
WCW had to find a new role for Riggs after his American Males tag partner Buff Bagwell betrayed him to join the New World Order. Raven facing Riggs in the ring led to him joining the group after suffering an eye injury and having to wear an eyepatch for the rest of his WCW run.
5 Hak
The feud between Raven and The Sandman was one of the best in ECW history often competing for the ECW Championship. WCW tried to replicate that in a smaller role when Sandman joined the company and changed his name to Hak.
The story featured former ECW manager Chastity revealed as Raven’s sister and having a relationship with Hak to cause family tension. Raven and Hak had some fun hardcore matches that carried the otherwise lackluster flawed storyline.
4 Johnny B. Badd
Another early feud for Raven’s Scotty Flamingo days saw him working against Marc Mero aka Johnny B. Badd. WCW pushed Badd as a character based on flamboyant musician Little Richard, but Mero had a true toughness to him with a boxing background.
The hope was for WCW to show that credible nature of Badd’s boxing outside of the silly gimmick. A boxing match between Flamingo and Badd was truly different from anything else at the time. Raven got to experiment more with his heel character and had to pretend to know how to box for this angle to pay off.
3 Chris Kanyon
WCW used Chris Kanyon under a mask as Mortis for his role in the company before making a change involving Raven. Mortis getting turned down by The Flock saw Kanyon unmasking after a match between Raven and Diamond Dallas Page looking for revenge.
Kanyon attacking Raven and ditching the Mortis gimmick was how fans got introduced to him for the first time. WCW placed Raven and Kanyon in a feud with fun matches that culminated with them making peace to form a short-lived alliance afterwards.
2 Perry Saturn
WCW hired Perry Saturn from ECW around the same time as Raven and decided to make him part of The Flock. Saturn was a great tag team wrestler in ECW with John Kronus in The Eliminators, but this was his first taste of singles success as the second most important member of the faction.
Raven often picked Saturn to do his bidding until Saturn felt disrespected a bit too much. Saturn was the one to defeat Raven and end The Flock causing them to disband. The feud worked to perfection with the audience rallying behind Saturn and enjoying to see someone shut up Raven.
1 Diamond Dallas Page
One of the most underrated rivalries in WCW history featured Raven working with Diamond Dallas Page for many months. Page was a rare WCW talent to work matches against both the biggest main eventers like Hulk Hogan and the mid-carders like Raven.
WCW even experimented with the feud having big moments off their programming like Raven attacking DDP on MTV’s TRL in front of the Foo Fighters. Page and Raven had stellar matches and promos that created a compelling program. This remains one of the best feuds to stand the test of time and be entertaining today.