Raven on 'The Grappler' Lynn Denton

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@Michael-ml6lu Ай бұрын

He still ran shows in the late 90s. My mentor, Buddy Wayne (Nick's dad) took me to an Aladdin Theatre show in 1997. Bart Sawyer was on that show and wasn't happy to see a "mark" backstage. "Kayfabe, boys!" Buddy told him I was smartened up. Fun experience!

@CaseyWood-mn9vm Ай бұрын

I was probably at that show!

@scotthalvorson1161 Ай бұрын

Id love to see the grappler come on this show

@georgemaranville3305 Ай бұрын

His shoots are good but he and James would be good together

@popeyedoyle6360 Ай бұрын

That'd be great

@jimbomba4365 Ай бұрын

His autobiography is extremely underrated. Good stories, covers a lot of the territory days post-national expansion that often gets overlooked, and he's got a good sense of humor.

@cjh7234 Ай бұрын

I met him in a gym called Eastside and he was very nice ,strange part is as a kid we went to live shows in Redmond and madras as a kid and pushed him when he fell out of the ring lol . I never thought id see him as an adult in Portland oregon at the gym.

@shanecochran1969 Ай бұрын

The Grappler, that's a name from the past, aka Territory days...

@joshshields9229 Ай бұрын

He's still living in Oregon. He has a wrestling school, and does a lot of stand-up comedy at various clubs around Portland and Salem.

@ithinkaboutthings9052 Ай бұрын

The good old days for the fans.

@user-yh5yh5es4u Ай бұрын

Tony Anthony and Len,the Grapplers and DWBs

@jeffnettleton3858 Ай бұрын

Len Denton (professional name) was great, as the Grappler, and the unmasked Dirty White Boys (with Tony Anthony, who was Grappler #2, with Denton, in Southwest and Central States). Good promo, hell of a worker, good booker.

@chrisdavis9400 Ай бұрын

Yelp first saw the grappler in Mid-South probably around 82 or 83 he had that loaded boot gimmick!!

@jdteney Ай бұрын

Tony needs to hire him

@brandonprice1040 Ай бұрын

Ty James and Raven!

@MarcusShilling Ай бұрын

I am a huge fan of Raven and followed his first shoot interviews on KZbin when the medium first was launched. Listening to him today it is clear he is having memory issues and other possible neurological effects. Compare this video to anything from 15-20 years back and see the difference in his speech pattern and recall issues of words and places due to apparent memory loss. Hope Scott Levy is getting the help he needs an dis seeing a speciallist to reduce or slow down this deterioration

@ReanimatorsMutilations Ай бұрын

I dunno his memory seems good I think he was just having an off day maybe, he didn't seem too into it

@francisj9003 Ай бұрын

He seems medicated to me. Like a mix between anxiety and pain meds probably for neck or shoulder issues. I remember him mentioning something along those lines in his TNA HOF speech. He's also 59 now. People just generally slowdown around that age.

@david29497 Ай бұрын

It was "tell them enough of the truth so they'll believe the lie"

@NLaBar Ай бұрын

I remember Len Denton showing up as a job guy in WCW (usually on Thunder) in the late 90’s

@georgemaranville3305 Ай бұрын

Was Piper there then? If so, Piper probably facilitated that.

@ReanimatorsMutilations Ай бұрын

@@georgemaranville3305yes

@jimbomba4365 Ай бұрын

Denton said in his book it was Scott Norton. Denton got him booked him in Portland when he was first breaking in, and Norton wanted to return the favor. Denton thought he was getting a contract, but Bischoff only booked him on a per appearance basis, and after a few months Denton quit when he saw that a contract wasn't coming. At that point in his life, he was already semi-retired and had good money coming in as co-owner of Piper's auto repair shop in Portland, so he was only going to give that up for a full-time deal.

@thomashenley1903 Ай бұрын

I love how Raven memorized that question; alot of wrestlers need that question repeated.

@dewayneperry8395 Ай бұрын

He right about how it was and how it is now.

@aaronimpactgaming Ай бұрын

6:53 Didn't Paul Heyman propose an idea to have a Raw or Smackdown entirely of promos?

@jimbomba4365 Ай бұрын

I remember Heyman once booked a 60-minute episode of ECW TV where literally half the show was a single Shane Douglas promo. It was about as exciting as you would expect.

@Richie3Jack Ай бұрын

This is what Tony Khan has never done. He just sees a match he always wanted to book and thinks it will bump the ratings (and to his credit, on occasion it has) but he doesn't have anything planned before or after the specialty match. Just doing dog collar or cage or exploding barbed wire matches for the sake of doing them and that they 'cool.' I used to think the same way too, but if you watch enough pro wrestling and really study what works and how it works after a while you start to understand that it's much more complex than just having a specialty match (or even just simple match making between two wrestlers).

@ithinkaboutthings9052 Ай бұрын

I was kind of following you till you credited Tony for any ratings bumps. They’re accidental, if they occur.

@litteralfitness6113 Ай бұрын

Very smart mind for the business and he does a great job articulating it

@zemmons5000 Ай бұрын

Adhd, drugs, and concussions. What was the question

@tobysgamingworld1550 Ай бұрын

Yeah this was tough to watch. I like Raven, I’ve actually been able to spend a few hours at a Denny’s with him and a few other ECW guys during his last run with them. He talked a lot, but here he’s just all over the map.

@sampleoffers1978 Ай бұрын

Oversimplifying some of the humanity pitfalls it's struggle very simple he's right, saying some take

@Ohionortheast Ай бұрын

Great to see Raven.is he having some health issues? His hands are shaking really bad

@italion9101 Ай бұрын

I didn’t notice Ravens hands shaking till I read this comment.

@NLaBar Ай бұрын

Long careers in pro wrestling do a number on the human body. In Raven’s case, it’s not so much from taking bumps & more due to the extracurriculars he enjoyed in the 90’s 😆

@phildirt3 Ай бұрын

Except its Len not Lynn

@-The-Darkside Ай бұрын

It's lynn

@ithinkaboutthings9052 Ай бұрын

The ding dong could have fixed the title. His legal name was Lynn but everyone knew him as Len. But accuracy and clarity is too much to expect from a typical rumor channel.

@georgemaranville3305 Ай бұрын

@@ithinkaboutthings9052??? This is a shoot interview channel. Not a news channel.

@ithinkaboutthings9052 Ай бұрын

@@georgemaranville3305 The host does these “shoot” interviews, podcasts with Dutch Mantell and proves that accuracy matters less to his generation. The title should be clear, concise and, above all, accurate to the video. I’ve heard and read countless interviews with and about Denton and never heard anyone ever refer to his actual legal birth name.

@nineteeneightynine432 Ай бұрын

@@ithinkaboutthings9052 Cry more son

@kipster3802 Ай бұрын

Burnt out grandpa raven wasnt on my bingo card for today, but i can tell this is gonna be interesting

@markabboud4855 Ай бұрын

I think fans would watch squash matches . It keeps the big names from wrestling each other, and who doesn't want to watch a wrestler just beat the shit out of a jobber

@sampleoffers1978 Ай бұрын

He's wrong it was oiled musculature vs aging fat sag oh evil good right he's right

@ReanimatorsMutilations Ай бұрын

The hate the whole " working the leg is great story telling" no it's not. What's the storu? How one wrestler has an injury and the other wants to win?

@Mekrabb Ай бұрын

Parkinsons

@carrollhoover36 Ай бұрын

Raven is fried.....

@siblis20 Ай бұрын

To many headshots for Raven and its affecting his thinking and speech

@duncanbishop1836 Ай бұрын

Enjoy Raven, loved him when I was a kid, but is it a contractual obligation to mention "his great mind for the business" every time anyone talks about him?

@tonesdad0408 Ай бұрын

I thought it was Len??? Damn James how you gonna fuck up the name of the mentor of Raven?

@jimbomba4365 Ай бұрын

As others have already said, Denton has wrestled as both Len and Lynn during his career, but Lynn is his legal name and the one Denton published his autobiography under. So....not a mistake.