Post by sungod2020 on Feb 20, 2022 13:49:09 GMT -5
I'm not talking about when he returned as Big Poppa Pump in 2002, but his original run as part of The Steiner Brothers(hence the WWF initials in the thread title).
There was a rumor flirting around that booking agents at the time Pat Patterson and Bruce Prichard wanted the University of Michigan alumnus make a surprise debut at the 1993 Royal Rumble and win the thing and later take on Bret Hart at Wrestlemania IX where he would the Royal Rumble, but Vince McMahon and The Steiners themselves turned down the idea since they wanted to stay together as a tag team.
This wouldn't have been the future Freakzilla's first taste at singles stardom as he had a World Heavyweight Title match against Ric Flair two years prior at Clash of the Champions XIV: Dixie Dynamite only to end in a time limit draw. While he certainly wasn't the bombastic roid rage womanizer fans came to know him as, the talent was certainly there, and I'm sure he could've been a convincing midcarder at the time.
Which brings me to this thread. Was there any truth to the matter that they wanted him to become a main eventer out the gate? Where would that leave his brother Rick? How would that even work?
I say if you wanted to give a pre-Big Poppa Pump Scott Steiner a singles push in either promotion(WCW or WWF), it wouldn't be too much out of a stretch to do. Since i'm more familar with WWF, I'd see if I can keep the Steiners past mid 1994 when they left the company. Have him slowly start acting a little pompus and full of himself.
Have tensions arise between the brothers(like they did four years later in WCW) with them losing their matches(Rick taking the fall) only for it to boil over and have Scott Steiner turn on his brother at say, King of The Ring after failing to capture the tag team titles from The Headshrinkers(who were champs at the time). This can result in a one-on-one match at that years Summerslam, with Scott coming out on top.
In the meantime, have him develop a bully jock gimmick, since he was pretty much a dick in real life, it wouldn't be that hard to do. Have him eventually win the IC championship from Razor Ramon in late 94/early 95 and keep it until, say Wrestlemania XI. He can even win it back from The Bad Guy and then drop it to Shawn Michaels at In Your House II(sorry Double J).
After that, you can either keep him in the midcard or have him go to ECW or (back to) WCW and let history proceed as normal, but that would require him to going along with splitting up with his brother, which is why they left the F to begin with. I just can't think of a Scott Steiner's single push in that time period that he was there.
Thoughts?
There was a rumor flirting around that booking agents at the time Pat Patterson and Bruce Prichard wanted the University of Michigan alumnus make a surprise debut at the 1993 Royal Rumble and win the thing and later take on Bret Hart at Wrestlemania IX where he would the Royal Rumble, but Vince McMahon and The Steiners themselves turned down the idea since they wanted to stay together as a tag team.
This wouldn't have been the future Freakzilla's first taste at singles stardom as he had a World Heavyweight Title match against Ric Flair two years prior at Clash of the Champions XIV: Dixie Dynamite only to end in a time limit draw. While he certainly wasn't the bombastic roid rage womanizer fans came to know him as, the talent was certainly there, and I'm sure he could've been a convincing midcarder at the time.
Which brings me to this thread. Was there any truth to the matter that they wanted him to become a main eventer out the gate? Where would that leave his brother Rick? How would that even work?
I say if you wanted to give a pre-Big Poppa Pump Scott Steiner a singles push in either promotion(WCW or WWF), it wouldn't be too much out of a stretch to do. Since i'm more familar with WWF, I'd see if I can keep the Steiners past mid 1994 when they left the company. Have him slowly start acting a little pompus and full of himself.
Have tensions arise between the brothers(like they did four years later in WCW) with them losing their matches(Rick taking the fall) only for it to boil over and have Scott Steiner turn on his brother at say, King of The Ring after failing to capture the tag team titles from The Headshrinkers(who were champs at the time). This can result in a one-on-one match at that years Summerslam, with Scott coming out on top.
In the meantime, have him develop a bully jock gimmick, since he was pretty much a dick in real life, it wouldn't be that hard to do. Have him eventually win the IC championship from Razor Ramon in late 94/early 95 and keep it until, say Wrestlemania XI. He can even win it back from The Bad Guy and then drop it to Shawn Michaels at In Your House II(sorry Double J).
After that, you can either keep him in the midcard or have him go to ECW or (back to) WCW and let history proceed as normal, but that would require him to going along with splitting up with his brother, which is why they left the F to begin with. I just can't think of a Scott Steiner's single push in that time period that he was there.
Thoughts?
