26. Success, Bust or In Between: Scott Steiner

[Sexcellence of Sexecution]

"I'm doin him an egg, sayin onto ur dumb redneck ass"

Based that quote alone, I will quantify Scott Steiner's TNA run as a resounding success. If you disagree with me, there is a 141 and two thirds % chance that you are wrong.

Hollar, if ya hear me.

[HBsam31]

I am going with in between. I agree that his insane promos is what made people want to watch Steiner. He gave us a lot of that in TNA, and he had some decent feuds in the ring too. Namely with Joe, and as a part of MEM. He didn't win many title, and he really didn't need to. He wasn't a bust, but I can't quite rate him a success either.

[The Living Receiver]

This is really an easy one in my mind, Scott Steiner was an absolute success everywhere he went.
Sure he his best years came and went by the year 1996, but Steiner was smart (or lucky, depending on how you see it) enough to undergo a drastic enough character change that required a lot less of him in the ring and still managed to make him look great.


In terms of late 80's and early 90's Steiner though, there were few more athletically gifted big men than this man.
One half of one of (if not the single) best tag teams ever, a big part of the last real game changer in pro wrestling, the NWO, world champion, had absolute classic matches with legends like Ricky Steamboat, Booker T and Ric Flair, case made.


Don't get me wrong here, I'm no honk, I actually kinda hate Steiner, but the fact is that he excelled everywhere he went.
So I vote success, even if the poll won't let me yet.

[aza1294]

Originally Posted by The Living Receiver

This is really an easy one in my mind, Scott Steiner was an absolute success everywhere he went.
Sure he his best years came and went by the year 1996, but Steiner was smart (or lucky, depending on how you see it) enough to undergo a drastic enough character change that required a lot less of him in the ring and still managed to make him look great.


In terms of late 80's and early 90's Steiner though, there were few more athletically gifted big men than this man.
One half of one of (if not the single) best tag teams ever, a big part of the last real game changer in pro wrestling, the NWO, world champion, had absolute classic matches with legends like Ricky Steamboat, Booker T and Ric Flair, case made.



Don't get me wrong here, I'm no honk, I actually kinda hate Steiner, but the fact is that he excelled everywhere he went.
So I vote success, even if the poll won't let me yet.

TNA only bud. I'd say he was in-between. Like many posters have said before me, Steiner was involved in many major angles such as the MEM & Immortal, however he really was not needed in any of them. TNA played off Steiner's history for his selling point without ever really doing anything major with him. So sure he wasn't used to his full potential, he still did his job well and filled the roles in some of the biggest angles in TNA history.

[midgensa]

One of my favorite series on WrestleZone ... keep up the great work IDR.

In the end ... there is only one way to vote on this and that is that Scott Steiner was a success.

He was a member of the Main Event Mafia which was hands down one of the five best things in TNA in its existence. It brought legitimacy to the brand by having top-tier, main-event stars come together and have a presence on television that was not produced by WWE.

Putting together the Steiner Brothers for one more nostalgic run was great for us old folk and good for the youngins to see a couple of greats work together one more time. And, obviously, his near death experience while on the TNA roster oddly adds more to his time there and makes it even more memorable.

I did not love him in Immortal and near the end it was clear that his career just had very little left in the tank ... but for a guy who at one point I couldn't stand ... his TNA run made me respect him immensely.

While working with MEM ... a group that had wrestling MEGA stars and could have easily survived without him ... he went out there in pain on a nightly basis. It is well know that his back is completely fucked up. That his shoulders are completely fucked up. But this guy went out there and performed over and over again and was central to the dominance of MEM and helping put them mega over.

His work rate was better in his time here than at any point in his career ... which is kind of mind boggling because it made me often wonder what he could have been. But he put young talent over on a nightly basis, helped make the MEM a big ass deal and in general was a very recognizable name on the TNA card.

At the point he was in his career, TNA honestly could not have asked for anything more out of him.

[CuddleBuns84]

Well, he is one of the few guys in the industry that still has his money. Yes, he had a failed WWE run. But, who hasn't had a failed WWE run. In addition to that, sure he wasn't main event, but he got people over. He made money, he sold merchandise. The fans would boo or cheer him.

Yes, he had backstage antics. Then again... WHO HASN'T!!

He wasn't a bad worker. He knew how to work the crowd. His Big Poppa Pump gimmick was great. It limited his ring work. But he was still effective in the ring.

Now as far as the folks that said his best days were behind in the last part of the career. Well Duh!! Ric Flair's best days were behind him. He got a 250K contract from TNA. He might of worked 5 matches during his time in TNA.

It would always be great to see someone retire at the right time, however... Not everyone is John Elway or in Pro Wrestling standards... Shawn Michaels.

Vote Success. It makes sense.

[GameOver]

Im gonna say in between. He had all the gifts but too much contraversy and obvious drug abuse marred his WCW career and beyond.

He was one member of a great tag team, when he went singles he coulda easily gone well beyond the title reigns he had but Rick's mental issues and both of them being apparently addicted to "Freak" he lost any respect he had as a great technician and become nothing but a sideshow freak, and to put the final nail in the coffin he did his back in and all possiblities of his career continuing were stopped dead in there tracks and his ring work suffered as a result

[Triple Naitch]

I voted SUCCESS

Scott Steiner was never going to be the World Champion in TNA. His best days were about a decade behind him at the time he joined the company, but I still think he had a good run in the company, and was very entertaining throughout.

His mental promos made little sense, but a huge number of wrestling fans love that about Steiner, the man is just pure entertainment and during his matches in TNA he didnt occasionally remind us how good he used to be, performing the Frankensteiner every now and again and even more rarely the Steiner Screwdriver.

His body was obviously in poor condition, but Scotty still had the name value to be a valuable part of the Main Event Mafia, have a tag-team title reign and provided us with alot of entertaining moments during his TNA run. It's a shame he is currently doing legal proceedings against TNA, as I would love to see him come back for another short run