10 WWE Superstars Who Sabotaged Their Own Careers
5. Pump Up The Volume
Shortly after Scott Steiner rejoined the WWE in late 2002, roided out, suffering from nerve damage in his foot and barely able to wrestle, he was placed in a feud with Triple H, who’d partially torn a quad muscle only weeks earlier. Given their limitations, the build for their Royal Rumble match would involve a series of challenges - arm wrestling, a posedown, that kind of thing.
Unfortunately, the match, twice the length it should have been, was a disaster. The rematch was better, but by that point the company had already written Steiner off: he wasn’t booked for WrestleMania, and tumbling down the card, was eventually released in August 2004, having been paid to stay at home since the end of January.
None of that was Steiner’s fault - from all reports he worked hard with WWE doctors for close to a year before making his comeback. Fortunately, following surgery he eventually returned to the ring more like his former self. Unfortunately, Scott Steiner’s mouth is his own worst enemy.
The man has a rare talent for trashtalking - his best promos are like runaway trains, unstoppable and uncontrollable. Sadly for Steiner, he’s like that in real life: notoriously unruly, he’s spent years slagging off WWE, Triple H and (for some reason) Stephanie McMahon, about whom he’s been as ungentlemanly as it’s possible to get.
His TNA run showed he still had what it took to compete and to entertain… but he’d never get the chance to make WWE money again.