Scott Anthony Levy (born September 8, 1964), better known by his ring name Raven, is an American professional wrestler, producer, writer/author, and actor. During his career he has held multiple championships across the world. He is a three-time World Champion, having won the ECW World Heavyweight Championship twice and the NWA World Heavyweight Championship once. He also held the WCW United States Championship once, and is the record holder for most reigns as WWE Hardcore Champion with 27 reigns.
He is the 2005 King of the Mountain winner at Slammiversary in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, being only the second person ever to win the annual event. Between WCW, TNA, WWE and ECW, Levy has held 36 championships. He briefly wrestled for the Ring of Honor promotion in 2003. Levy is the innovator of numerous types of “gimmick” wrestling matches, such as Clockwork Orange House of Fun match, Raven’s Rules match and Hangman’s Horror match.
Levy has a wife named Selina Kyle, whom he married in January 2007. He was born Jewish, possesses an IQ of 143 and is a member of Mensa and Theta Chi Fraternity.
Levy has Type-2 Diabetes.
He is a lifelong fan of comic books. In Wizard Magazine’s May 1999 issue Levy is quoted as saying “I love the Marvel Knights line. I’m a big Kevin Smith fan, and his work on Daredevil is the best on that book since Frank Miller’s stuff. Inhumans is also great. It could be the break-out book of the year because they’re finally treating them as real characters instead of just freaks and monsters with no personality.” The article goes on to say that he is a big fan of Watchmen, Swamp Thing, and especially Sandman and that he has a tattoo of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman character (Dream) on his back. Levy, along with Brian Azzarello, wrote Issue #14 of Spider-Man’s Tangled Web, entitled “The Last Shoot”. The comic was based around the professional wrestler (named Crusher Hogan) who Peter Parker defeated in the character’s first appearance in Amazing Fantasy. He also provided a cover quote for a trade paperback edition of 100 Bullets.
Levy, along with former colleague Chris Kanyon and colleague Michael Sanders, attempted to sue World Wrestling Entertainment for “cheating them out of health care and other benefits” but a federal judge in Stamford, Connecticut dismissed the case. In a 2010 interview Levy explained that the case was dismissed due to statute of limitations running out.
On July 31, 2010 Raven was inducted into the Legends Pro Wrestling “Hall of Fame” by Jack Blaze in Wheeling, WV at their annual “LPW Great American Smash” event.
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