7 WCW Champions Who Never Became WWE Champions (And Why)

4. Scott Steiner

WCW Champion: Once (2000)

Signed: 1992-1994, 2002-2004

Reason: By the time Scott Steiner reached WWE in 2002 as his venomous "Big Poppa' Pump" character, it was too late. Ravaged by injuries and never seeing eye-to-eye with top players like Triple H (as evidenced by his later comments disparaging Trips, his wife Stephanie and Vince McMahon himself), Steiner couldn't live up to the billing.

In pain and in need of rest, he wasn't the dynamic, athletic performer who had thrilled as part of The Steiner Brothers in the 1980s and early '90s.

Had Scott joined the WWF during the Attitude Era rise of characters like Steve Austin, The Rock and D-Generation X, he might have fit in better. Between 1998-2000, Steiner was still capable of having great matches, and he proved it against Booker T and Goldberg. That incendiary, violent style he worked would have ruled on Raw.

It wasn't to be, and that perhaps sums up both of Scott's two-year stints in the WWF/WWE. Earlier between 1992-1994, he and brother Rick never looked settled in the company. Ex-WWF creative team member Bruce Prichard did hint on his podcast that Scott was in the mix to win the 1994 Royal Rumble, but Vince McMahon moved quickly to nix that suggestion.

Once more, he didn't see what others did.