10 Reasons Why Scott Steiner Is The Most Unappreciated Pro Wrestler Ever

7. ...And The Best Tag Matches Of The 90s

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Has wrestling ever bettered the 1990s for match quality and innovation?

Modern day cards are typically better, on the whole. The pursuit of workrate, demanded by the modern day fan, has mercifully rendered the likes of Mideon a relic. But wrestling was richer back then - and Scott Steiner's peerless work in the tag ranks was at the forefront of wrestling's greatest ever period.

The inherent structure and suspense of the tag team match lends itself to rote formula - beat up Ricky Morton, generate the heat, have Robert Gibson provide the all-important release - but the Steiner Brothers' body of work was wonderfully eclectic. Their matches in those famed joint WCW/NJPW supershows, against the likes of Hiroshi Hase and Kensuke Sasaki, were gripping, athletic, anything-you-can-do-we-can-do-better p*ssing contests. One of - if not the - best match in WCW pay-per-view history was their bout opposite Sting and Lex Luger at the inaugural SuperBrawl.

Initially fought as a friendly exhibition, albeit one with a blistering, hard-hitting pace, a series of misunderstandings unravelled the tone of sportsmanship, giving way to a vicious melee of a finishing sequence. Steiner was a sublime storyteller.

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