YMMV / Scott Steiner

• Badass Decay: In his younger days (back when he sported his long, wavy hair) Scott probably would've been able to hold his own against Kurt Angle in a legit technical, mat wrestling contest. By the late nineties, however, age and the ridiculous amount of muscle mass he'd built up had slowed him down considerably. A life threatening injury that he sustained in a match in Puerto Rico in 2008 and the surgery that followed would limit him even further afterwards.
• Base-Breaking Character: Some fans love him for the sheer insane hilarity he produces. Others are disgusted by his steroid use and less than stellar personal behaviour.
• Designated Hero: As Brian Zane pointed out in his video covering Big Poppa Pump's ill-fated run in the WWE, Steiner was a huge textbook example of this. Despite being presented as a face upon his debut his actual persona was more or less unchanged from his time as a heel, meaning he came across as a crass, misogynistic, Iraq War-supporting brute with few traits that separated him from the current heels. Was it any wonder fans turned on him during his feud with Triple H? Even Steiner thought being a face was a bad idea from the beginning.
• Draco in Leather Pants: After he started (ab)using steroids, his whole persona became a giant cheese-fest between long, rambling promos and word salad outbursts. It's pretty much the entire reason anyone puts up with him, because he no sells everything and is a pain to work with.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Whilst WCW's last couple of years are infamous for their steady deterioration in quality, Steiner's promos badmouthing absolutely everyone were consistently hilarious, and kept people watching. TNA allowed him to return to this style and cut many popular promos there too.
• Fountain of Memes: Thanks to his promos, tenuous grasp of physics, mathematics, or even basic sentence structure, and general unhingedness. Not to mention that he's hungry.
• Genius Bonus: As much as it sounded like a bunch of ridiculous rambling as per usual from the man, Scott's math in his infamous TNA calculation on his odds at Sacrifice have been shown to be fairly mathematically sound in terms of the individual equations the formula is made up of...sorta. The issue is more that he used all the right numbers but applied them incorrectly. As many have pointed out, he didn't actually win at Sacrifice despite his estimate 141%^* and two-thirds chance of victory, though people (semi-jokingly) pointed out that it all originally hinged on Kurt Angle being there, which he wasn't^* Kaz replaced him for the match due to Angle suffering a legitimate neck injury while wrestling overseas, thus we'll never know if it was true. Still, for someone just throwing out numbers on the fly, it's impressive that it was consistent.
• Heartwarming Moments:
  • Back in the early 1990's, before Big Poppa Pump came to existence, Scott was reportedly offered solo pushes in both WCW and WWF. He declined each time, because Rick's job would have been on the chopping block then. When Scott got his solo push around 1998/1999-2000, Rick was still kept on; if rumors that his big push coming from the booking committee's fear are true, Rick might have been saved by Scott shouting "What about my brother?!" Long story short, while Scott may be wonderfully, hilariously insane, he looks out for his loved ones. Unfortunately for him, by the time he got his singles push in 1998, he was utterly broken down and couldn't actually wrestle anymore.
  • When Scott almost died of a staph infection in Puerto Rico, an uncharacteristically humble Scott graciously thanked the doctors and nurses who saved his life in his first promo back and put over the health care system there.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Funny how Scott would be in Test's position during his promo in Against All Odds 2007. enjoy
  • Steiner, Booker T, and Buff Bagwell, while under contract to WCW, guest starred on Charmed as wrestling demons. Steiner and Booker's characters were pinned down to hell by Prue and Phoebe at the end of the episode. Since WCW died, Bagwell only sparingly made TV appearances, whereas Steiner and Booker both had decent-length WWE runs, headed to TNA, and became members of a Power Stable of legends called the Main Event Mafia - during which they became tag team champions together.
  • The "Professor Scott Steiner" meme gets better when taken into account that a) his original gimmick was of a college athlete and b) his college degree is in education.
  • One of the Steiner Brothers' entrance songs in WCW, "Steinerized", had the line "They don't use drugs and they're always on top." Considering that Scott is all but outright confirmed to have used steroids to acquire his infamous Big Poppa Pump physique...
  • "Cowboy" Bill Watts tried to convince Scott to agree to turn heel and feud against Rick back when Watts was president of WCW, which Scott refused, thinking the idea wasn't good. Five years later...
• Memetic Mutation: If Batista is the poster child for wrestling memes, then Steiner is a close second. In all honestly, it's only because Batista operates on a larger stage that Scott gets upstaged.
  • On the WrestleCrap forums, whenever the subject of a wrestler's weight is brought up (Matt Hardy for instance), it's inevitable for a user to post a video of Steiner screaming "HE'S FAT!"
  • "FAAAAAAAAT ASSES!"
• Rooting for the Empire: Steiner has become such an entertainingly large ham that crowds will cheer for him even when he's completely heel. At the 2011 Turning Point PPV, while tagging with Bully Ray, Steiner spent most of his time on the apron telling the pro-Steiner crowd to shut up, which only egged the crowd on more.
  Crowd: STEINER! STEINER! STEINER!
  Steiner: *flips off crowd* FUCK! YOU! FUCK! YOU! FUCK! YOU!
• So Bad, It's Good: Basically all of his promos.
• Unexpected Character: While his career was without a doubt Hall of Fame worthy, few expected Scott to be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame (at least while he was still living) due to A) his vocal grudge against WWE, Triple H and the McMahons, B) him having trashed the Hall of Fame in interviews and C) He had been banned from attending the 2015 Hall of Fame after a nasty confrontation with Hulk Hogan in an airport. Of course, he was inducted with Rick as the Steiner brothers, so it's yet to be known if he'll get a solo induction.