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Scott Carl Rechsteiner (born July 29, 1962 in Bay City, Michigan), better known by his ring name Scott Steiner, is an American professional wrestler currently working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. Steiner is perhaps best known for his appearances with World Championship Wrestling in the tag team The Steiner Brothers or his involvement with the New World Order faction. CareerSteiner attended the University of Michigan on a wrestling scholarship, earning a degree in education. Steiner was an All-American at University, and placed second in the Big Ten Conference in his sophomore, junior and senior years. In his senior year, Steiner placed sixth in the 190 lb (86 kg) weight class of the 1986 National Collegiate Athletic Association championships.After graduating, Steiner turned professional, training under The Sheik and debuting in the Indianapolis, Indiana-based World Wrestling Association in 1986 as Scott Rechsteiner. On August 14, 1986 in Dearborn, Michigan, Steiner defeated Greg Wojokowski for the WWA Heavyweight Championship. He held the title until May 3, 1987, when he lost to Wojokowski in Toledo, Ohio. Steiner then formed a tag team with Jerry Graham, Jr. and the partners defeated Chris Carter and Mohammad Saad for the WWA Tag Team Championship on October 6, 1987. Their reign ended in Toledo on December 6, 1987 when they lost to Carter and Don Kent. In 1988, Steiner joined the Memphis, Tennessee-based Continental Wrestling Association. He formed a tag team with Bill Travis, and the duo defeated the Cuban Choir Boys for the CWA Tag Team Championship on May 29, 1988. Their reign ended on June 6, 1988 when they lost to Gary Young and Don Bass. Steiner and Travis regained the titles on June 27, 1988, but lost to the RPMs (Mike Davis and Tommy Lane) on August 15, 1988. Steiner formed a new tag team with Jed Grundy, and on February 18, 1989 they defeated CWA Tag Team Champions Robert Fuller and Jimmy Golden. Steiner's third and final reign ended on February 25, 1989 when Fuller and Golden regained the titles, and he left the CWA soon after. Steiner went on to form a tag team with his brother Rick known as The Steiner Brothers. World Championship Wrestling (1989-1992)On November 1, 1989 in Atlanta, Georgia, the Steiner Brothers defeated the Fabulous Freebirds (Michael "P.S." Hayes and Jimmy Garvin) for the NWA World Tag Team Championship. They held the titles until May 19, 1990, when they were defeated by Doom (Butch Reed and Ron Simmons in Washington, D.C. at Capital Combat.The Steiner Brothers defeated The Midnight Express (Bobby Eaton and Stan Lane) for the NWA United States Tag Team Championship on August 24, 1990 in East Rutherford, New Jersey. During their title reign, World Championship Wrestling withdrew from the National Wrestling Alliance in January 1991, and the title was renamed the WCW United States Tag Team Championship. Upon winning the WCW World Tag Team Championship on February 18, 1991, the Steiners vacated the NWA United States Tag Team Championship on February 20, 1991. After the Steiner Brothers won the IWGP World Tag Team Championship from Hiroshi Hase and Masahiro Chono on March 21, 1991, WCW announcers began referring to them as "Triple Crown Champions". At the same time, Scott Steiner was being groomed as a singles performer. On WCW's weekend TBS shows (WCW Power Hour, WCW Saturday Night, and WCW Main Event), there was a special "gauntlet" match segment where a performer was picked to wrestle a top star on each show on that weekend, winning the sum of $10,000 USD (kayfabe) if they defeated all three. Steiner was the first announced to run the gauntlet with his first opponent being Ric Flair. By way of backfiring interference by the Four Horsemen, Steiner beat Flair by pinfall. He would then get a title match aganist Flair at Clash of the Champions XIV: Dixie Dynamite on January 30, 1991, which ended in a time limit draw. Steiner would go on to win the WCW World Television Championship on September 29, 1992, and began teasing a heel turn. However, the angle was aborted when the Steiner Brothers left WCW for the World Wrestling Federation after being lowballed on their contract renewal by then-WCW head Bill Watts. World Wrestling Federation (1992-1994)The Steiner Brothers left WCW in November 1992, with Scott vacating the WCW World Television Championship. They quickly signed contracts with the World Wrestling Federation, making their televised debut on the December 21, 1992 edition of WWF Prime Time Wrestling as babyfaces. They also appeared on the debut episode of Monday Night RAW on January 11, 1993.. They made their WWF pay-per-view debut on January 24, 1993 at the 1993 Royal Rumble, defeating the Beverly Brothers (Blake and Beau). At WrestleMania IX on April 4, 1993, the Steiner Brothers defeated The Headshrinkers (Samu and Fatu).Following WrestleMania IX, the Steiner Brothers began feuding with Money, Inc. (Ted DiBiase and Irwin R. Schyster). At King of the Ring 1993 on June 13, 1993, the Steiner Brothers and The Smokin' Gunns (Billy and Bart) defeated The Headshrinkers and Money, Inc.. The following evening, on the June 14, 1993 episode of RAW, the Steiner Brothers defeated Money, Inc. for the WWF World Tag Team Championship in Columbus, Ohio. Money, Inc. regained the titles on June 16, 1993 at a house show in Rockford, Illinois, but lost the titles to the Steiner Brothers once again at another house show on June 19, 1993 in St. Louis, Missouri. The Steiner Brothers successfully defended their titles against the Heavenly Bodies (Tom Prichard and Jimmy Del Ray) on August 30, 1993 at SummerSlam 1993. On the September 13, 1993 episode of RAW in New York City, New York, the Steiner Brothers defended their titles against The Quebecers (Jacques and Pierre) in a "Province of Quebec rules" match, wherein titles can change hands via disqualification. The match ended when the manager of The Quebecers, Johnny Polo, threw a hockey stick into the ring, which was caught by Scott. When the referee saw Scott holding the illegal weapon, he disqualified the Steiner Brothers, thus awarding the World Tag Team Championship to The Quebecers. Scott gained a measure of revenge by defeating Pierre in a singles match the following week on RAW. At the 1993 Survivor Series on November 24, 1993, the Steiner Brothers teamed with Lex Luger and The Undertaker as "The All-Americans". The All-Americans defeated their opponents, "The Foreign Fanatics" (Yokozuna, Crush, Ludvig Borga and Jacques), although Luger was the sole survivor. On January 22, 1994, both Steiners entered the 1994 Royal Rumble, with Scott entering at number one. After Rick entered at number three, the brothers cooperated until being eliminated by Owen Hart and Diesel respectively. The Steiners had incurred the ire of the WWF booking team by refusing to fight one another during the Royal Rumble, and they left the promotion in mid-1994. Extreme Championship Wrestling (1995)The Steiner Brothers debuted in Extreme Championship Wrestling on July 28, 1995 in the Orange County Fairgrounds in Middletown, New York, defeating Dudley Dudley and Vampire Warrior. They next appeared with ECW in The Flagstaff on August 4, 1995 in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, defeating Dudley Dudley and 2 Cold Scorpio. The Steiner Brothers made their debut in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, ECW Arena on August 5, 1995 at Wrestlepalooza 1995, teaming with Eddie Guerrero in a loss to Scorpio, Dean Malenko and Cactus Jack. On August 25, 1995 in Jim Thorpe they defeated Scorpio and Malenko, and they went on to defeat Scorpio and Chris Benoit the following evening. On August 28, 1995, they defeated Dudley Dudley and Dances With Dudley in the Big Apple Dinner Theater in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.At Gangstas' Paradise on September 16, 1995, the Steiner Brothers joined forces with Taz in a loss to The Eliminators (John Kronus and Perry Saturn) and Jason. On September 23, 1995 in Middletown, they defeated Raven and Stevie Richards. Scott Steiner made his final ECW appearance on October 28, 1995, teaming with Taz and losing to The Eliminators in a tag team match. World Championship Wrestling (1996-2001)The Steiner Brothers re-signed with WCW in 1996. They won the WCW World Tag Team Championship from Harlem Heat on July 24, 1996, but lost the titles to Harlem Heat just three days later. Following the formation of the New World Order (nWo), the Steiner Brothers began feuding with The Outsiders, who had won the WCW World Tag Team Championship from Harlem Heat.The Steiners Brothers eventually split up, with Scott Steiner turning heel in the process. He went on to adopt a new gimmick that was somewhat reminiscent of "Superstar" Billy Graham, dyeing his hair and beard blond and rapidly increasing in muscle mass. He joined the nWo and remained a member until the group disbanded in early 1999. Steiner remained a heel throughout most of 1999, feuding with wrestlers such as Goldberg, Diamond Dallas Page, Booker T and cruiserweight Rey Misterio, Jr., and winning both the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship and WCW World Television Championship in the process. In late 1999, Steiner suffered a back injury and was removed from action. On an episode of WCW Monday Nitro in December 1999 in Houston, Texas, Steiner delivered an emotional speech in which he announced his retirement from professional wrestling. Later that evening, Steiner revealed himself to be in perfect health, turning on Sid Vicious. He went on to become an integral part of the reformed nWo in 2000. After the nWo disbanded once again, Steiner became one of the central members of Vince Russo and Eric Bischoff's New Blood faction. On November 26, 2000 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he defeated Booker T to win the WCW World Heavyweight Championship. In January 2001, he became the centerpiece of Ric Flair's Magnificent Seven faction. Steiner lost the WCW World Heavyweight Championship to Booker T on the final episode of WCW Monday Nitro on March 26, 2001. He is sometimes referred to as the last "real" WCW World Heavyweight Champion, as Booker T's title win took place after the World Wrestling Federation purchased WCW and chairman Vince McMahon requested that the title be given to a wrestler whose contract he had acquired; Steiner was therefore the last wrestler independently booked to win the title by WCW. Unlike Booker T, Steiner did not join the WWF, instead opting to wait until his contract with AOL-Time Warner expired later that year before seeking further employment. World Wrestling All-Stars (2001-2002)After his contract with AOL-Time Warner expired, Steiner joined the World Wrestling All-Stars, where he was reunited with Midajah. He appeared at WWA house shows in Europe and Australia throughout 2001 and 2002. At the third WWA pay-per-view, WWA Eruption, on April 12, 2002 in the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia, Steiner challenged Nathan Jones for the WWA World Heavyweight Championship. Despite the presence of WWA Commissioner Sid at ringside, Steiner was able to cheat his way to a victory, striking Jones with the title belt and then pinning him. Steiner held the belt for several months, although never defending it, before vacating the title in November 2002 and leaving WWA for World Wrestling Entertainment.In one of his last appearances before re-joining WWE, Steiner teamed with his brother Rick to defeat Hiroshi Tanahashi and Kensuke Sasaki on May 2, 2002 in Japan at the New Japan's 30th Anniversary show in a match refereed by Joanie Laurer. World Wrestling Entertainment (2002-2004)
Once on RAW, Steiner quickly began a feud with World Champion Triple H, culminating in title matches at the 2003 Royal Rumble and at No Way Out 2003. Steiner won the former match by disqualification after Triple H attacked referee Earl Hebner and lost the latter match by pinfall following interference from Triple H's stable Evolution. The matches gained a degree of infamy after Steiner botched several moves, including an attempted butterfly suplex. Following the title matches, Steiner was moved down the card, and formed a tag team with Test. The tag team separated after Test turned heel due to his misogynistic treatment of his manager, Stacy Keibler. Steiner defeated Test to win the managerial services of Keibler at Bad Blood 2003 on June 15, 2003, but lost her back to Test in a rematch on the August 18, 2003 episode of RAW. At Unforgiven 2003 on September 21, 2003, Steiner faced Test with Keibler's managerial services on the line once again, with the stipulation that Steiner become Test's manservant if he lost. Steiner was defeated following a mistake by Keibler, and the tag team was reunited. After another mistake by Keibler cost the partners a tag team bout on the September 29, 2003 episode of RAW, a frustrated Steiner turned heel by belly to belly suplexing Keibler. Steiner and Test teamed together, with Keibler their reluctant manager, until the December 1, 2003 episode of RAW, when Commissioner Mick Foley "fired" Test, emancipating Keibler in the process. Steiner was removed from television, and suffered an injury in 2004, sidelining him for two months. While he was injured, WWE negotiated a contractual release, and Steiner left the promotion on August 17, 2004. Steiner underwent foot surgery in July 2004, having six screws inserted into his foot, a tendon transplant and a bone graft, then convalesced, wearing a cast for eight months. He returned to the ring on August 28, 2005 in Asheville, North Carolina for the Universal Championship Wrestling independent promotion, teaming with his brother Rick to defeat Disco Inferno and Jeff Lewis. Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (2006-)Sporting a new chest tattoo, Steiner debuted in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling on March 12, 2006 at TNA Destination X 2006. His debut fulfilled Jeff Jarrett's claim that he would bring a new wrestler to TNA in order to counter the presence of Steve "Sting" Borden. At Destination X, Steiner broke Sting's Scorpion Deathlock on Jarrett and then applied his own Steiner Recliner to Sting, enabling Jarrett to recover and then break a guitar over Sting's head.Steiner made his TNA iMPACT! debut on March 18, 2006, identifying himself as Jarrett's bodyguard. In subsequent weeks, Steiner (who had ostensibly not been signed to a contract) began attacking members of the TNA roster, demanding to be hired. At TNA Lockdown 2006 on April 23, 2006, Steiner, Jarrett, and America's Most Wanted lost to Sting, A.J. Styles, Ron Killings and Rhino in a Lethal Lockdown match. Following the defeat, Steiner and Jarrett challenged Sting and any partner of his choosing to face them at TNA Sacrifice 2006 on May 14, 2006. Sting teased three potential partners (Buff Bagwell, Lex Luger and Steiner's brother Rick) before revealing his chosen partner to be Samoa Joe. Sting and Joe went on to defeat Steiner and Jarrett at Sacrifice. After failing to defeat Sting to qualify for the third King of the Mountain match, Steiner faced, and lost to, Samoa Joe in a singles bout at TNA Slammiversary 2006. At TNA Victory Road 2006, Steiner faced Samoa Joe, Sting and Christian Cage in a four way bout for the number one contendership to Jarrett's NWA World Heavyweight Championship; the match was won by Sting, who pinned Steiner. ControversySteiner's weight gain in the late 1990s led to accusations of anabolic steroid abuse, which he denied. Steiner claims that, upon returning to World Wrestling Entertainment in late 2002 he was asked to undergo a steroid test. According to Steiner, the request was dropped after Steiner insisted that the muscular Triple H, then the World Heavyweight Champion, also undergo a test.On April 21, 1998 in Cherokee County, Georgia, Steiner threatened Georgia Department of Transportation employee Paul Kaspereen after Kaspereen informed him that an exit ramp leading off Interstate 575 was closed. He then twice hit Kaspereen with his Ford F-250 pickup truck (Kaspereen was not badly hurt). Steiner was subsequently arrested, and on March 17, 1999 he pled guilty to aggravated assault and making "terroristic threats" (felonies carrying a maximum sentence of 30 years imprisonment. Under Georgian first-offender rules, which stipulates that a first-time offender will be found not guilty if they do not violate the terms of their probation, Judge C. Michael Roach sentenced Steiner to 10 days in the Cherokee County jail. He also placed Steiner on a seven year probation order, ordered him to pay $25,000 USD in fines, restitution and legal fees and ordered him to perform 200 hours of community service. Towards the end of his tenure in World Championship Wrestling, Steiner embarked upon a legitimate rivalry with wrestler Diamond Dallas Page after insulting Page's wife Kimberly during an interview. Kimberly Page had fallen afoul of Steiner after claiming that drug paraphernalia found backstage belonged to Tammy Lynn Sytch, an accusation that, despite Sytch's vehement denial, led to her being released from the promotion soon after. The acrimony between Steiner and Page eventually descended into violence, with the two men engaging in a locker room fight before being separated by other wrestlers. The incident was adapted into an on-screen feud between the two in which Page would repeatedly harass Steiner with the phrase "I'm still standing!", a reference to Steiner repeatedly boasting about having "ended the careers" of Goldberg, Sid Vicious, Sting, and Booker T. On the February 7, 2000 episode of WCW Monday Nitro, Steiner angered WCW officials when he directed disparaging remarks towards World Championship Wrestling and Ric Flair during an interview. In the course of the interview, Steiner claimed that when Ric Flair appeared on WCW programming, "the people at home, all they did was grab their remote, and change their channel to the WWF, and watch Stone Cold - a person you and your own friends got fired from here, 'cause you're a jealous old bastard." Steiner went on to call Flair an "ass-kissing, butt-fucking bastard" and finished the tirade with the words "WCW sucks!". He was suspended for two weeks without pay for the incident. In January 2001, Steiner was arrested after inadvertently assaulting Randall Mankins, an emergency medical technician employed by the Kernersville, North Carolina fire department. As part of an angle on an episode of WCW Monday Nitro, an EMT was sent to the ring to tend to Michael Modest and Christopher Daniels, who were selling leg injuries ostensibly inflicted by Steiner. As the EMT entered the ring, Steiner struck him twice, believing him to be a plant rather than a legitimate EMT. Steiner was arrested for assault the following morning as he tried to board a plane. In December 2005, Steiner, along with Lex Luger and Buff Bagwell, was removed from a flight from Minneapolis, Minnesota to Winnipeg, Manitoba following a disturbance onboard the plane. The three men were detained for several hours before Steiner and Bagwell were released and permitted to continue on their journey (Luger, however, was held without bail and later charged and jailed). Steiner would later invoke the incident in his in-ring interviews, describing himself as a violent criminal with little regard for the forces of law and order. Wrestling facts
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Championships and accomplishments
*National Wrestling Alliance:*1-time NWA United States Tag Team Champion (with Rick Steiner):*1-time NWA World Tag Team Champion (with Rick Steiner):*1990 NWA Pat O'Connor Memorial Tag Team Tournament winner (with Rick Steiner) *New Japan Pro Wrestling:*2-time IWGP World Tag Team Champion (with Rick Steiner) *Pro Wrestling America:*1-time PWA Tag Team Champion (with Rick Steiner) *Pro Wrestling Illustrated:*PWI Most Improved Wrestler Award (1989):*PWI Tag Team of the Year Award, with Rick Steiner (1990):*PWI Match of the Year Award, with Rick Steiner, versus Sting and Lex Luger (1991):*PWI Tag Team of the Year Award, with Rick Steiner (1993):*PWI ranked him # 77 of the 500 best singles wrestlers of the PWI Years (2003):*PWI ranked him # 2 of the best tag teams of the PWI Years, with Rick Steiner (2003) *Stars and Stripes Championship Wrestling:*1-time SSCW Heavyweight Champion *World Championship Wrestling:*2-time WCW United States Heavyweight Champion:*1-time WCW World Heavyweight Champion :*6-time WCW World Tag Team Champion (with Rick Steiner):*2-time WCW World Television Champion *World Wrestling All-Stars:*1-time WWA World Heavyweight Champion *World Wrestling Association:*1-time WWA World Heavyweight Champion:*1-time WWA World Tag Team Champion (with Jerry Graham, Jr.) *World Wrestling Federation:*2-time WWF World Tag Team Champion (with Rick Steiner) *Wrestling Observer Newsletter:*1990 Tag Team of the Year (with Rick Steiner):*1991 Match of the Year (with Rick Steiner, versus Hiroshi Hase and Kensuke Sasaki) Championship succession | WCW World Heavyweight Championship | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Preceded by: Booker T | First | Succeeded by: Booker T | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| WCW United States Championship | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by: Vacant | First | Succeeded by: Vacated | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| WCW World Television Championship | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by: Ricky Steamboat | First | Succeeded by: Vacated | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by: Konnan | Second | Succeeded by: Booker T | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| WCW World Tag Team Championship | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by: Michael Hayes and Jimmy Garvin | First, with Rick Steiner | Succeeded by: Vacated | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by: Arn Anderson and Bobby Eaton | Second, with Rick Steiner | Succeeded by: Terry Gordy and Steve Williams | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by: Harlem Heat | Third, with Rick Steiner | Succeeded by: Harlem Heat | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by: The Outsiders | Fourth, with Rick Steiner | Succeeded by: The Outsiders | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by: The Outsiders | Fifth, with Rick Steiner | Succeeded by: The Outsiders | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by: The Outsiders | Sixth, with Rick Steiner | Succeeded by: The Outsiders | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| WWF World Tag Team Championship | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by: Money Inc. | First, with Rick Steiner | Succeeded by: Earthquake and Typhoon Preceded by: | Money Inc. Second, with Rick Steiner | Succeeded by: |
Money Inc.''' Acting careerSteiner appeared in the television program Charmed on February 1, 2001, playing "Mega Man" in the episode "Wrestling with Demons".References* 2001: The Year in Review (by Buck Woodward)* The History of WCW, Part IV * A report of the February 7, 2000 episode of WCW Monday Nitro * Big Poppa Pump doing Time * An interview with Scott Steiner, conducted by Steven Goforth * ProWrestlingHistory.com * Scott Steiner: A Freak Unleashed On The TNA Roster * Scott Steiner at Accelerator3359.com * Scott Steiner at Gerweck.net * Scott Steiner at ObsessedWithWrestling.com * Scott Steiner: On conquests and conquering * Solie's title histories * Steiner's pumpin' it up again in ring * Steiner wins WCW World Title * Wrestlers arrested External links* BootyDaddy.com - the official website of Scott Steiner * TNA profile
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