Now Scott Steiner is by far one of the most trashed wrestlers on the IWC. I read about it all the time: "He's too old. He's bad. He's slow. He's terrible" in addition to reading reports about him being in bad shape. He's is made fun of on the net almost every day, and every time he's put into a match for a PPV, it is immediately written off as a bad match by several people.
Yet, I tune into Impact this week, and I see Scott Steiner having a great match with AJ Styles where he put him over.
Why all the hate for Steiner? He's an old guy, but are you honestly going to sit there and tell me he hasn't busted his ass since being in TNA?
He came to TNA in early 2006, and the first thing he did was basically steal the show in the Lethal Lockdown match. What'd he do after that? He went into a program with Samoa Joe, Joe's first big heavyweight feud, and put him over clean after a really intense match with a big atmosphere.
Took some time off, came back, and once again shined in Lethal Lockdown. How? By doing a FUCKING FRANKENSTEINER!!! That's right!! A FRANKENSTEINER!!!! Then what? He reforms The Steiner Brothers! But they suck now right?? Well they go into a great feud with Team 3D, have a good match at Hard Justice 2007 (oh wait, I forgot, that PPV didn't have any good matches ) and then they had a very good tables match at Bound for Glory that, once again, everybody wrote off beforehand as a stinker for the night. Oh and in both of those matches, Scotty did a FUCKING FRANKENSTEINER!!!
After that much success, you'd think The Steiners would win the tag titles right? Well they could have. I honestly wouldn't have had a problem with it. But nope. Came time to wrestle AJ & Tomko at Genesis, and they put the young guys over, adding credibility to AJ & Tomko not juts as tag champs, but as a team in general.
At the start of 2008, Scott then goes into a feud with Petey Williams over the Feast or Fired Cases. Now let me tell you what Petey Williams had done in 2007: NOTHING!!! Oh wait, he had that brief feud with James Storm early in the year, but in reality he was just killing time before Harris came back. He was a jobber that was constantly left off of PPVs. Why on Earth should Scott Steiner work with him? Couldn't Scott be feuding with somebody who is already an established star? He could have, but no, they put him together with Petey Williams, resulting in a really good PPV match at Against All Odds 2008. Steiner won that match, but what happened afterwards? Petey got repackaged and joined with Steiner out of Steiner's respect for the young kid, resulting in Petey getting right back into the X Division Title picture, making him IMO the best X Champ of 2008 by about a mile.
Scott Steiner has only had ONE World Title shot since being in TNA (almost 3 years and only one title shot) It was supposed to be a 3 Way against Champion Joe & Kurt Angle at Sacrifice. And to be honest, I was so disappointed when they threw Angle into the mix. I mean Joe & Steiner have a history together, Angle should have been suffering a let down after losing at Lockdown. I wanted Joe vs. Steiner II. And God basically told TNA I was right when Kurt Angle got hurt and had to be pulled out of the match anyway. Since it was a Triple Threat, Kaz was added to the match last minute. Well obviously Kaz was the one to take the pin for Joe right? I mean he's not a main eventer, nobody honestly thinks he'll win, and he is just benefiting from the chance. But guess what, STEINER TOOK THE PIN!!! He didn't have to, especially in that situation, but he did, and had a really good match with Kaz & Joe as well.
And now with the Main Event Mafia thing, the whole point of the angle was for the young guys to feud with the old guys, which isn't really happening at the moment. But guess what, Steiner is now going to be feuding with Petey Williams. Hooray!!! An actually young guy vs. old guy feud with backstory, history, and meaning. Good!!!
After all of that, I can not for the life of me understand why Steiner gets so much hate. Like I said before, he's an old guy that works hard, puts young guys over, makes guys look good, and continues to be entertaining in the process. Why does everybody trash him so much?
The only answer I can come up with is that his run in the WWE was nothing short of a disaster, symbolized by that atrocious match he had with Triple H at Royal Rumble 2003. Well the Scott Steiner I saw then is not the one I'm seeing now, and I think he has proven his worth in TNA, and he deserves a little bit more respect than he gets.
Yet, I tune into Impact this week, and I see Scott Steiner having a great match with AJ Styles where he put him over.
Why all the hate for Steiner? He's an old guy, but are you honestly going to sit there and tell me he hasn't busted his ass since being in TNA?
He came to TNA in early 2006, and the first thing he did was basically steal the show in the Lethal Lockdown match. What'd he do after that? He went into a program with Samoa Joe, Joe's first big heavyweight feud, and put him over clean after a really intense match with a big atmosphere.
Took some time off, came back, and once again shined in Lethal Lockdown. How? By doing a FUCKING FRANKENSTEINER!!! That's right!! A FRANKENSTEINER!!!! Then what? He reforms The Steiner Brothers! But they suck now right?? Well they go into a great feud with Team 3D, have a good match at Hard Justice 2007 (oh wait, I forgot, that PPV didn't have any good matches ) and then they had a very good tables match at Bound for Glory that, once again, everybody wrote off beforehand as a stinker for the night. Oh and in both of those matches, Scotty did a FUCKING FRANKENSTEINER!!!
After that much success, you'd think The Steiners would win the tag titles right? Well they could have. I honestly wouldn't have had a problem with it. But nope. Came time to wrestle AJ & Tomko at Genesis, and they put the young guys over, adding credibility to AJ & Tomko not juts as tag champs, but as a team in general.
At the start of 2008, Scott then goes into a feud with Petey Williams over the Feast or Fired Cases. Now let me tell you what Petey Williams had done in 2007: NOTHING!!! Oh wait, he had that brief feud with James Storm early in the year, but in reality he was just killing time before Harris came back. He was a jobber that was constantly left off of PPVs. Why on Earth should Scott Steiner work with him? Couldn't Scott be feuding with somebody who is already an established star? He could have, but no, they put him together with Petey Williams, resulting in a really good PPV match at Against All Odds 2008. Steiner won that match, but what happened afterwards? Petey got repackaged and joined with Steiner out of Steiner's respect for the young kid, resulting in Petey getting right back into the X Division Title picture, making him IMO the best X Champ of 2008 by about a mile.
Scott Steiner has only had ONE World Title shot since being in TNA (almost 3 years and only one title shot) It was supposed to be a 3 Way against Champion Joe & Kurt Angle at Sacrifice. And to be honest, I was so disappointed when they threw Angle into the mix. I mean Joe & Steiner have a history together, Angle should have been suffering a let down after losing at Lockdown. I wanted Joe vs. Steiner II. And God basically told TNA I was right when Kurt Angle got hurt and had to be pulled out of the match anyway. Since it was a Triple Threat, Kaz was added to the match last minute. Well obviously Kaz was the one to take the pin for Joe right? I mean he's not a main eventer, nobody honestly thinks he'll win, and he is just benefiting from the chance. But guess what, STEINER TOOK THE PIN!!! He didn't have to, especially in that situation, but he did, and had a really good match with Kaz & Joe as well.
And now with the Main Event Mafia thing, the whole point of the angle was for the young guys to feud with the old guys, which isn't really happening at the moment. But guess what, Steiner is now going to be feuding with Petey Williams. Hooray!!! An actually young guy vs. old guy feud with backstory, history, and meaning. Good!!!
After all of that, I can not for the life of me understand why Steiner gets so much hate. Like I said before, he's an old guy that works hard, puts young guys over, makes guys look good, and continues to be entertaining in the process. Why does everybody trash him so much?
The only answer I can come up with is that his run in the WWE was nothing short of a disaster, symbolized by that atrocious match he had with Triple H at Royal Rumble 2003. Well the Scott Steiner I saw then is not the one I'm seeing now, and I think he has proven his worth in TNA, and he deserves a little bit more respect than he gets.
, but I think the real big one was him bringing Petey back into the TNA spotlight with "Little Petey Pump". The gimmick was and still is genius, and doesn't devalue either man.
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