[1999-01-11-WCW-Nitro] Raven vignette

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Raven is upset that his Grandma got his old room. Whatever. He goes through his old stuff and finds a lot of old pictures of Roddy Piper and ... are these actually going somewhere?

[El-P]

No. Thankfully, since Piper was awful by this point. But yeah, they were supposed to go somewhere, with the idea that Raven idolized Piper when he was younger, and probably references to their days in Portland at some point when Piper was some kind of "mentor" to Levy.

[soup23]

Raven vs. Piper may be the battle of who in WCW has consistently annoyed me more in the past year. Wonder what house they used to film these and that could be a fun bit of trivia for me.

[Tim Evans]

Man Piper vs Raven in 1999 would have been a disaster. Still get a kick out of Sandman in this role.

[PeteF3]

We begin with Raven and Sandman discussing Wittgenstein over a game of backgammon. Loss' comments about the commercialized video-camera usage rings true here as well. WCW is operating in a weird sort of in-between where the individual shots are still framed documentary-style but with a multi-camera set-up. The result doesn't really feel authentic but is too low-rent to be TV or commercial-quality like the Lucha Underground skits. No, I don't want to see Raven vs. Piper specifically either, but it'd almost be worth it to see *one* angle involving one of the Old Guard deigning to interact with a younger performer.