10 Insane Wrestling Stories Nobody Ever Talks About
8. Road Wild
Mad Max doesn't have sh*t on Insane Scott.
In a story so wonderful it could convince a socialist to drop the whole "pro wrestlers shouldn't have to pay to drive themselves across a gigantic country for several hours at a time most days" thing, the Steiner Brothers and Sting whiled away boring time on the road by actively looking for their fellow brothers on the highway and risking death to "get" them.
"Getting them" in this context saw Scott lift Rick by his legs and dangle him out of a moving car at full speed. Rick then attempted to open the car parallel to them, which also had to be moving - at 70mph - for this rib to work. The aim was to drag the wrestler into their car, and wrestlers were giants back then as a matter of course. This was essentially Mad Max playing out in real life, only you could somehow comprehend what Scott Steiner was saying more than you could Tom Hardy.
Wrestlers, wise to a game that somehow happened more than once, started to lock their doors. Paul Heyman tried to escape Rick's clutches in 1989, and so the Steiners instead hurled every throwable object they could find at their windshield, including, because wrestling was once an awesome cartoon, a watermelon.
"Give me a f*ckin' melon!" Steiner might not have said, but let's pretend he did.