10 Astonishing Times Wrestlers Swore On Live TV
5. Scott Steiner
This isn't an exaggeration: the worst thing about WWE's trademark TV polish, and the mentality that wrestlers must now be subservient to the brand - the Gratitude Era - is that magnificent, no-f*cks hotheads like Scott Steiner can no longer delight the audience with their maverick brilliance.
Modern WWE has rendered Scott Steiner extinct. Which would you rather:
Average at best promos, in which the aim, weirdly, is to bury the opponent? Or a guy whose first five words in eight years were:
"Give me a f*ckin' mic!"
At Survivor Series 2002, Scott Steiner debuted to interrupt Matt Hardy and Christopher Nowinski's interminable cheap heat seg, turning the airwaves blue and smashing them to smithereens with his suplex game. Steiner was a great swearer because he was so comically belligerent and legitimately dangerous. Steiner swearing was a portent of doom: never the most smooth of talkers, a clean expletive announced that he was focused on his imminent task of braining some hapless victim. Steiner swore all the time, in fact, which helped him to become a folk hero when his super-working abilities deserted him.
This is a man who, when aiming a boot into Test's gut, said: "Ah, f*ck you!" without any interest in adhering to TV guidelines.