TSC Evaluation #54: Rick Steiner

mrken12 · Sep 6, 2017

In the last evaluation, William Regal got a score of 7.79.

TSC Evaluation #53: William Regal

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Major Accomplishments

George Tragos/Lou Thesz Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame
Class of 2014

Jim Crockett Promotions/World Championship Wrestling
NWA Florida Heavyweight Championship (1x)
NWA/WCW World Television Championship (3x)
WCW United States Heavyweight Championship (1x)
NWA/WCW United States Tag Team Championship (2x) – with Eddie Gilbert (1) and Scott Steiner (1)
NWA (Mid-Atlantic version)/WCW World Tag Team Championship (8x) – with Scott Steiner (7) and Kenny Kaos (1)
Pat O'Connor Memorial Tag Team Tournament (1990) – with Scott Steiner

Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling
NWA Mid-Atlantic Tag Team Championship (2x) – with Terry Taylor (1) and Scott Steiner (1)

New Japan Pro Wrestling
IWGP Tag Team Championship (2x) – with Scott Steiner

Preston City Wrestling
PCW Tag Team Championship (1x) – with Scott Steiner

Pro Wrestling America
PWA Tag Team Championship (1x) – with Scott Steiner

Pro Wrestling Illustrated
PWI Match of the Year (1991) with Scott Steiner vs. Lex Luger and Sting at SuperBrawl
PWI Tag Team of the Year (1990, 1993) with Scott Steiner
PWI ranked him #2 of the Top 100 Tag Teams of the "PWI Years" with Scott Steiner in 2003
PWI ranked him #10 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 1991
PWI ranked him #88 of the top 500 singles wrestlers of the "PWI Years" in 2003

Pro Wrestling This Week
Wrestler of the Week (May 2, 1987) with Sting

Pure Action Championship Wrestling
PACW Tag Team Championship (1x) - with Scott Steiner

Southern Championship Wrestling
SCW Championship (1x)

Universal Wrestling Federation
UWF World Tag Team Championship (1x) – with Sting

World League Wrestling
WLW Heavyweight Championship (2x)

World Pro Wrestling
WPW Heavyweight Championship (1x)

World Wrestling Federation
WWF World Tag Team Championship (2x) – with Scott Steiner

Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards
5 Star Match (1991) with Scott Steiner, Sting, and Brian Pillman vs. Ric Flair, Larry Zbyszko, Barry Windham and Sid Vicious in a WarGames match at WrestleWar
Tag Team of the Year (1990) with Scott Steiner
Most Improved (1986)
Best Gimmick (1988)
Match of the Year (1991) with Scott Steiner vs. Hiroshi Hase and Kensuke Sasaki at WCW/New Japan Supershow

With a scale of 1-10 how would you rate Rick Steiner in these categories:

-Mic work/promos

-Personality/gimmicks

-Ring work (along with some of your favorite matches/feuds)

-Overall rating (which doesn't have to be an average of the above scores)

Silkk · Sep 6, 2017

I feel like he's about to get overrated something crazy. Naturally, I gotta compare him to Scott and I think I gave Scott an 8. To me, Rick never evolved as a wrestler and could never be entertaining standing on his own. I give him a 5 :yeshrug:

This shyt here was comedy though

#BringYourDogToWorkDay: Scott Steiner unleashes the dogs on Sting

daboywonder2002 · Sep 6, 2017

Im thinking a 7 or 8. i would give him a 10 when it comes to ring work.. college background, can go toe to toe with any wrestler.

gets the crowd involved with the dog pound bark. he and his brother helped tag team wrestling. Steiner brothers helped rick but also hurt him.. Scott stood out so much with the frankensteiner and then the muscle gain. He had more charisma. He had made u forget how good Rick was. PLus rick never cut any ground breaking promos.

Kunty McPhuck · Sep 6, 2017

@Dog Based Gremlin

Ed MOTHERFUCKING G · Sep 6, 2017

Next week gonna be lit

mrken12 · Sep 6, 2017

at Scott Steiner giving a 1.

stro · Sep 6, 2017

I gave him a 5 because as strong as the Steiners were before 1996, he was so fukking trash as a singles guy that he was painful to watch.

Dude took lariat bumps like no one else, though:

El Guapo · Sep 6, 2017

I gave Scott a 9, so I'm gonna give Rick an 8. Steiners are on that first Tier of best tag teams ever :manny:

Kunty McPhuck · Sep 6, 2017

stro said:
I gave him a 5 because as strong as the Steiners were before 1996, he was so fukking trash as a singles guy that he was painful to watch.

Dude took lariat bumps like no one else, though:

The Adams/Steiner gif, that must be one of if not the last Adams' match on TV?

stro · Sep 6, 2017

He was still on TV regularly for another 6 months after that before WCW released him.

Homer Simpson · Sep 6, 2017

10 for pulling revolvers on people backstage

Dog Based Gremlin · Sep 6, 2017

really was a GOAT of his era

Riley Escobar · Sep 7, 2017

Ed MOTHERfukkING G said:
Next week gonna be lit

@Kevin_Nash @Scott_Steiner

patscorpio · Sep 7, 2017

Scott was an unbelievable talent in the ring that it made most ppl forget that Rick was beastly himself....them Steinerlines, suplexes, and flying bulldog he did were brutal plus he was strong as shyt....took part in some of the most classic tag team matches of the last 25 years.....hell it took rick a lot longer to fall off ring wise..and even then the fall off wasn't as drastic on some day and night shyt like Scott...at one time Rick was the charismatic member of the Steiner Bros with barking and shyt..but like someone said Rick never evolved, personality or gimmick wise, from tag team..his promos were "fine" for 80s - mid 90s..but when things got more promo heavy he sounded more and more hokey..outside of his late 80s NWA run, his singles matches were nothing to write about..id give rick about a 6.5.

Ill Lou Malnati · Sep 7, 2017

-Mic work/promos: 4... typical knucklehead '80s style promo

-Personality/gimmicks: 7. Dog-Faced Gremlin, the barking and amateur wrestling gear all seemed pretty unique for its time.

-Ring work (along with some of your favorite matches/feuds): 6. Threw some of the greatest suplexes and clotheslines, and is obviously a part of one of the great tag teams ever... but how many great solo matches did he ever have? I'm sure you could find something worthwhile during his pre-Steiner Brothers days in the NWA that involved the Varsity Club, or possibly a random match with Flair in the early '90s, but he was sloppy and lazy by the mid-90s. He seemed like an a$$hole in later years as well working too stiff with people.

-Overall rating (which doesn't have to be an average of the above scores): 6. If he had never teamed up with Scotty, this guy would not have any lasting legacy in the business. At least when Scott's workrate fell off in the mid-90s, he could talk. Rick didn't even have that to back him up. His solo heel run in the later years of WCW is embarrassing (but everyone's run in the later years of WCW is embarrassing).

TSC Evaluation #54: Rick Steiner

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10 (Legendary)

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