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Post by avenger on Mar 10, 2024 10:07:55 GMT -5
The number of matches he's had is probably a factor as well.
I had a look at Cagematch.
He started wrestling relatively late - he was 26 when he debuted. And he was a tag partner of Jim Hellwig for the first year in CWA and the UWF, so you can probably guess that those matches would have been short.
In his early years in WCW, he was wrestling 200 matches a year, from 1994 onwards he was only working half that. Even then he was one of the few main eventers that worked the majority of house shows, but the fact that once Nitro starts, he and Flair were the only main eventers wrestling at house shows pretty much killed WCW's house show business, so fewer shows were run.
1997, he takes almost a year off, doesn't wrestle a match from the 4th January to Starrcade on 28th December. A year where any niggling injuries have time to heal (slower than normal, because he's still doing the travel), but he's also featured promoted heavily on TV.
He worked 18 matches between the end of WCW in 2001 and joining TNA full time in 2006, and had six years between his final WWE match and his debut AEW match.
He's worked 29 matches in three years since joining AEW (including the NOAH show for Muta)
Cagematch reckons he's wrestled 2157 matches, there's probably more from his early days, but probably not more than 100. *If* Cagematch is accurate, he wrestled over half of his matches before the end of 1992.
By comparison, The Miz debuted in 2003, he's 41 now. Like Sting, he works a safer style than most, doesn't have any signature moves that take a toll on his body, probably takes less riskier moves than Sting, and is now 41 years old. Miz has almost overtaken Sting in matches wrestled - he's wrestled 2135 matches.
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Post by Can you afford to pay me, Gah on Mar 10, 2024 13:58:40 GMT -5
Something else that I don't think gets mentioned is for the last 23 years, he's been part time basically. He might have most wrestled 3 a month and that was with TNA. In the last ten years between WWE and AEW he had maybe 35 matches. Even in WCW he had almost all of 97 off. Steiner in that time was working TNA and doing indie shows. He even benefited from that schedule though as he, while not prime Scott, was moving a lot better in TNA than he had toward the end of WCW and all of his cursed WWE run. Which for Steiner, he had a foot issue that he didn't get fixed until after his WWE run. Had Steiner got it fixed before he came to WWE, it would likely been a better run. No idea why he didn't. Unless maybe he thought he be fine with rehab or something.
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Post by Mozenrath on Mar 10, 2024 14:10:54 GMT -5
Something else that I don't think gets mentioned is for the last 23 years, he's been part time basically. He might have most wrestled 3 a month and that was with TNA. In the last ten years between WWE and AEW he had maybe 35 matches. Even in WCW he had almost all of 97 off. Steiner in that time was working TNA and doing indie shows. He even benefited from that schedule though as he, while not prime Scott, was moving a lot better in TNA than he had toward the end of WCW and all of his cursed WWE run. Which for Steiner, he had a foot issue that he didn't get fixed until after his WWE run. Had Steiner got it fixed before he came to WWE, it would likely been a better run. No idea why he didn't. Unless maybe he thought he be fine with rehab or something. He may have thought that, had he gotten it taken care of, he'd further miss out on momentum from his WCW years on coming in. It was a gamble, and he probably made the wrong choice.
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Post by Can you afford to pay me, Gah on Mar 12, 2024 5:10:14 GMT -5
Which for Steiner, he had a foot issue that he didn't get fixed until after his WWE run. Had Steiner got it fixed before he came to WWE, it would likely been a better run. No idea why he didn't. Unless maybe he thought he be fine with rehab or something. He may have thought that, had he gotten it taken care of, he'd further miss out on momentum from his WCW years on coming in. It was a gamble, and he probably made the wrong choice. It was the wrong choice. I mean I guess he didn't know the recovery time. Which was 8 months I read. He didn't show up into WWE over a year after WCW went out of business.
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