10 Reasons Why Scott Steiner Is The Most Unappreciated Pro Wrestler Ever
3. He Got The Very Best Out Of Goldberg
Goldberg's greatest ever singles match - and one of his longest - took place at WCW Fall Brawl 2000. The man in the opposite corner was Scott Steiner.
Goldberg, a graduate of the infamously diabolical (in both senses of the word) Power Plant training school, was not built to go the distance; his best and most memorable matches were the sub-five minute squash matches with which he forged his undefeated streak. His Halloween Havoc 1998 bout opposite Diamond Dallas Page ran this a close second, but Steiner's ultra-credible hard man aura lent this blood-soaked war a more believable heft - incredible, really, given that Vince Russo played a major role in it.
This was something so special that even he could not ruin it. Steiner's feats of athleticism - reversing himself from an offensive tombstone piledriver position to take Goldberg's over-the-shoulder military press slam - made his opponent look absolutely monstrous, but Steiner's own stretch of offence was so credible that it was almost easy to believe that he might win without interference. When he planted Goldberg on his head with a top rope overhead belly to belly suplex, you can pause and see mouths agape. To underscore his mastery of storytelling, those jaws remained dropped until the closing bell.
Watching Goldberg bump with such abandon and realism would have been incongruous - had he wrestled anybody else on the might.