The original member of Raven’s Nest, Stevie Richards was man is most closely associated with Raven in ECW, even before Raven debuted for the company. In late 1994, Richards didn’t know who he was and was going by many different names. Stevie Flamingo, Stevie Polo, Stevie The Body, all references to characters that Raven had played in both WCW and WWE just a few years before, and promised that he was going to bring someone to ECW who was the real Scott Levy. Of course, that man turned out to be Raven, and up until Raven left ECW in 1997, he and Richards were linked.

Richards was essentially Raven’s main whipping boy in The Nest. If Raven asked Richards to jump, Richards would ask “how high?” It was an abusive relationship at its core as Richards was routinely manipulated by Raven but he never really had a problem with it. During his first full year under Raven’s wing, Richards would capture the ECW Tag Team Championships on two occasions with his master as his partner, and by the end of the year, Richards had a lacky of his own in the form of The Blue Meanie. Throughout 1996, Richards and Meanie would form a strong bond that in turn led to tensions between Raven and Richards that would ultimately boil over by the end of the year, and given the success Richards, Meanie, and another Nest member by the name of Super Nova had by parodying various wrestlers and pop culture celebrities, the trio formed their own group; the Blue World Order.

Despite their immense popularity at the time, the bWo didn’t last long in ECW. Richards, Meanie, and Nova were all still associated with Raven’s Nest, but as time went on, the relationship between the two parties became strained and by the summer of 1997, Richards had actually retired from wrestling due to an injury, Meanie and Nova stuck together as a tag team, and Raven left for WCW.

These days, Richards and the rest of the bWo have all gone in very different directions. Nova was still wrestling sporadically up until 2022, but had already established himself as a licenced mortgage broker, a career he began in 2007 after also initially retiring from the business. Meanie still pops up on the independent scene to this day, with his most recent match coming for Create A Pro Wrestling in New York back in July 2025, and even made a special appearance at Ring of Honor’s Death Before Dishonor event in September 2025, accompanying Athena to the ring for her ROH Women’s World Championship match against Mina Shirakawa.

As for Richards, he has been retired from wrestling for many years, but is still in the public eye thanks to his YouTube channel, “The Stevie Richards Show,” where the former ECW star talks about current events in wrestling, as well as fielding questions from fans about everything that he has done throughout his career.