Professional wrestling legend and former 27 times WWE Hardcore Champion Raven who is also a former WCW United States Heavyweight champion recently looked back at his Flock faction that was in work mostly in WCW and revealed how it all came together.
The Flock was a big stable in WCW and it was led by former two times World Heavyweight Champion Raven. The faction contained a total of ten members and some of them became quite famous later on. Perry Saturn, Billy Kidman, Chris Kanyon, and Stevie Richards were some of the members of the faction.
Raven Remembers His Flock Faction From WCW
It was mostly a jobber based faction and much like most of the WCW factions, the promotion did not have enough vision for this 10 man faction. The Flock made its debut in 1997 and it was disbanded in 1998. It is totally forgotten by the fan nowadays since it did not have enough impact during its time or later.
Most of the members could not succeed in later time but some of them became quite famous, mostly the names that were mentioned above. But it had nothing to do with the faction. Raven was the most successful wrestler of them all who won multiple big championships from all over the world of professional wrestling.
Raven who is also a former WCW United States Heavyweight champion recently spoke to Fightful where he looked back at his Flock faction that was in work mostly in WCW and revealed how it all came together. He said;
“I wanted all new guys. I wanted all the guys that nobody’d ever seen before because I didn’t want a bunch of re-runs. I didn’t want retreads. I didn’t get what I wanted. I did get one—Sick Boy, and he really stood out ‘cause he was talented. Lodi, too.Yeah. Reese I wasn’t so jazzed about because he’d just done the Yeti thing. I liked him because he was a giant. I wasn’t asking for Hammer, but DDP asked me to take him.
“Hammer’s got a great look to him, but I didn’t guys who were being retreaded. I mean he turned out fine, he worked out great. But I wanted guys like Sick Boy, Lodi. Saturn I wanted because Saturn was my boy. He did work out for the most part. Riggs I loved hanging out with. He was my boy. Riggs can work. But I didn’t want guys like him because, like I said, I didn’t want reruns or retreads.
“But at least we got to do a way where we initiated him into the Flock and he wasn’t just all of a sudden one day he’s a new guy, you know what I mean? I always thought if they wanted to retread a guy, take him off TV for a year. Pay him to sit home and bring him back completely different. We had Horace Hogan in the Flock. Funny story, Jimmy Hart comes up to me and goes, ‘Hey, Hogan wondered if you’d put his nephew in the Flock.’ I was like, ‘Sure. Anything for Hogan.’
“Like, what are you going to say? No one’s going to say no. So then the rib is—me, Jericho and Konnan used to hang out and we would call ourselves the Triumph rant of Useless Information because we were all trivia marks. The funny thing is the running gag became, ‘Hey, did you know Horace Hogan was Hulk’s nephew?’ I’m like, ‘I had no idea!’