Wrestling / Raven's Nest

L-R: Stevie Richards, ECW World Heavyweight Champion Raven, Kimona Wanalaya and The Blue Meanie, early 1996

Raven's Nest was a Professional Wrestling Power Stable in ECW from 1995 to 1997. Raven put together the group for the purpose of destroying his longtime nemesis Tommy Dreamer, which stemmed, in the storyline, from when they were kids and Dreamer had been mean to Beulah McGillicutty when she was the fat girl at summer camp. It was the biggest group in ECW ever. There would often be ten or more people in the group at a time.

Later, Raven created other incarnations of the group in WCW such as The Flock and The Dead Pool,^note Although Raven quit WCW and went back to ECW a month after the latter group's inception, which continued together without him as The Dark Carnival and in TNA such as The Gathering and Serotonin.

Titles held in ECW by members of the Nest when they were members of the Nest:

• Raven was a 2x ECW World Heavyweight Champion and he and Stevie Richards held the ECW World Tag Team Championship twice.
• Cactus Jack held the ECW World Tag Team Championship once with non-member Mikey Whipwreck.

"What about the Nest's Tropes?":

• Alliterative Name/Repetitive Name: Dudley Dudley
• Arch-Enemy: Tommy Dreamer, The Sandman
• Big Bad: Raven, the centerpiece and the only constant member.
• The Dragon: Stevie Richards was Raven's right-hand man, as well as being Raven's Psycho Supporter. Cactus Jack and Brian Lee filled in at times as well.

• Fat Bastard: The Blue Meanie, and most of the Dudley Boys.
• Punny Name: "Kimona Wanalaya". Nobody involved made any attempt to hide that pronouncing it sounds just like the phrase "Come on, I wanna lay ya."
• Unrelated Brothers: The Dudley Boys, of course.
• Wham Line: Two in fact, both in 1996.
  BEULAH MCGILLICUTTY: "No, I'm pregnant!"
  TYLER FULLINGTON: "Daddy, you're a drunk. I worship Raven now."
• Wrestling Family: The Bruise Brothers, and Lori and Tyler Fullington, The Sandman's then-wife and son.

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