Not a fan. The Steiner Brothers were a good tag team, but the roidy physique and persona he took on with his singles run do nothing for me. Some of his TNA work is frankly embarrassing IMO. Peaked about 25 years ago, way before he made it to the top of the card.
2/5 - the Steiner Recliner is a great name for a move.
One the other hand, I reckon roids and coke era Scott would have been right at home with Hogan, Savage and the Ultimate Warrior. Somehow a man both ahead of and behind the times.
That’s fair, I think 90s Steiner borrowed a lot of the look and swagger of Dr D (the man originally working as the heel for Hogan before he hit a reporter and got fired)
could do, but that would take some time in what is already a bit of a process researching a wrestler’s best or most notorious matches. I certainly haven’t seen all these, they are currently just a snapshot of what notable moments and matches happened across that particular wrestler’s career. Certainly wouldn’t work here anyway as while I’m aware he had great matches in WCW and NJPW in the early 90s, I’ve only ever seen clips of them. I’m also fully aware that’s going to be the case for pretty much everyone here, so there’s always going to be matches that don’t get votes because of when and where they were, but it’s for now at least to provide a list of matches that people could go and seek out if they were particularly interested in the opponent and/or company, for instance.
What would you suggest going forward choosing say 10? Equally if people have a wrestler they’d particularly like to go into this kind of detail with I’d have no problem with it, would just need to co-ordinate
Absolutely this. The biggest 5 of all the people I like who don’t really deserve 5s (can’t wait for HGATR Mabel/Viscera/Big Daddy V)
Yeah he was a great wrestler early on and then a really shit one when he hit the top of the card but he was absolutely never boring. Either exciting in the ring or weird rambling mad man out of it. Some great matches from his early days and was still an entertaining part of end of days WCW with his silly chain mail and freaks and peaks bollocks. Didn’t mind his stuff with Test in WWE either but it might have been totally shit if I didn’t love him. Hope he has fully recovered from his heart track and can find his way back to Impact even if just for some nonsense chats, chain mail and Steiner Recliners.
To be honest, Steiner never really did long term storylines that went far beyond him being strong and being a burly bloke and people either looking to emasculate him, or vice versa
If you look on the list he and RIck were often paired with temporary visiting Japanese talents or light heavyweights because they were good hands in the ring, fast and strong, and could work with anyone. That didn’t lend to storylines particularly well. After that he was in the nWo, so would largely spend time coming to the ring and calling everyone a loser, especially whoever was writing the show at the time.
By the time he reached wwe, and moreso tna, he was pretty much a meme in and of himself - people would just put him out there and go look its Scott Steiner lol and he’d call someone fat and throw a chair into orbit or something and then disappear for another year. Wasted potential really.
This was why most heel wrestlers in the 80s had managers to do the talking for them and a few - Roddy Piper, Adrian Adonis come to mind - were allowed to do their own. The faces would normally just speak softly about how they hoped they’d have a good match that night.
The Warrior was absolutely terrible in interviews. Snorting, utter bollocks about going up a mountain and mentioning his opponent’s name in every single sentence for no reason at all.
think he’s a little underrated here, maybe people sometimes conflate his wwe/tna runs with his late period wcw one a bit. he was obviously diminished from his late 80s/early 90s peak, but he could still go a bit e.g. the match with goldberg at fall brawl is a banger, just two freakishly massive guys beating the piss out of each other. had a couple of decent ones with ddp around the same time as well. he was carrying a few injuries by the time he came back to wwe which is partly why the hhh stuff was such a disaster