Rick Steiner on Bill Watts & the Incident with Scott
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ส.ค. 2024
- Rick Steiner on Bill Watts
10 time World Tag Team champion and Professional Wrestling Hall of Famer "The Dog Faced Gremlin" Rick Steiner discusses working for famous "Mid South Wrestling" Promoter "Cowboy" Bill Watts. Steiner also discusses and backstage incident that took place when Watts was running WCW between "The Cowboy" and Rick's brother Scott that ultimately led to the Steiner Brothers leaving World Championship Wrestling and jumping to WWE.
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One of the few wrestling dudes that has aged well.
Wonder how many times Rick has had to say "and my brother got pissed". Rick seems cool.
And it's the complete opposite in real life
@@DerwinDaDestroyer I was going to say that. From everything I've read, rick was the better fighter and wrestler. He should tell growing up kid fights with his brother. Everyone with a brother has thrown hands lol
You can tell he is a legit wrestler, look at his ears.
Nah, those are actually from having Tickle Fights with Stacey Keibler 🤫
@@philiptucker7590 I think I’d pay to see that
Even after wearing protective gear.
You can tell he’s a legit wrestler because he’s a D1 All-American
Bill Watts wanted to turn Scott heel LONG before he became "Big Poppa Pump"! He once told Scott, "you'd make the best heel ever because you're such a prick!" Bill Watts was smart, he knew which guys make better natural heels than others. If only Scott listened 5 years earlier
Rick Always Seems so Cool and Composed
The Steiners were one of the best tag teams ever. Sad the way Scottie roided up. Rick was awesome.
Strange hearing Rick speaking in his natural voice.
Rick always one of my favorites used to love him with Mike rotunda
Varsity Club
Man I forgot about the varsity club! Good memories indeed
Their sibling style rivalry with one another to get the attention and adulation of their demented "Coach" Kevin Sullivan was a cool and very well done midcard storyline. Impressive work by all involved.🤔🏈B.W.
Steiner's probably could have done VERY well in MMA if they had come around at that time and taken that route.
MMA isn't even a pale shadow of what real pro wrestling is.
@@fjccommish lmao what does that even mean. “real pro wrestling” is an oxymoron anyways
@@justamurse5646 The pro wrestling before around the late 90's, early 2000's. Pro wrestling when there was kayfabe.
In an alternate universe, the Steiner brothers and Kurt Angle take a risky move and sign to the fledgling UFC. It pays off as they immediately become faces of the UFC. They’re inducted into the UFC after a long, illustrious career with multiple title reigns between the three of them.
I met Scott once and contrary to a lot of stories he was kind of cool. Although it was in his restaurant.
He has chilled out a lot.
How was the food
@@oscarcarrasquillo6355 👌
That used to be a good Shoneys, think they closed down during Covid
Rick seems so soft spoken and normal.
i knew rick from the weight room at the ann arbor y. he is a nice guy, but don't mess with him. i saw him do shrugs with 1,000# on the bar, breaking his lifting straps ..he wrestled heavyweight at u of m even though he only weighed about 230...
@@leehelppie4544 seeing that the world record for a dead lift is right around 1100 lbs, with all due respect I doubt he was shrugging 1000 lbs. I wasn’t there but I can pretty much guarantee that didn’t happen.
@@lowmoan Lol bless ya. A shoulder shrug can be picked up off a rack. You only have to move it an inch.
I started watching UWF when Rick was tagging with Sting and Eddie Gilbert. Plus Missy Hyatt and her Gucci bag. lol
That brings back memories
Remember she hit Dark Journey with that bag lol
Rob Rechsteiner is how he was billed, when he was in Mid-South.
Should have asked the DFG about the time Scott cornered/shouted down/threatened Vince McMahon to get out of their WWF contracts. Nobody talks about that mostly because practically nobody knows it happened. Scott talked about it in a radio interview in early 2000's & Rick mentioned it in passing in a different shoot interview also from early 2000's.
um that never happened spanky
I heard that they started hurting jobbers and made vince fire them.
Practically nobody knows, but you know. GTFOH
Said it on JRs radio show in Atlanta
2:28 , that was me, I was gonna do a guitar solo.
Very very smart and talented man that got stuck with a silly gimmick
STEINER BROTHERS 4 LIFE
Rick is the man
Cool! I'm from & live in Shreveport...
By the way you do an excellent job of interviewing.
paul jr from american chopper got old😁
I will always have fond memories of " The dog-face Grimlin " 🙏♥️🙏
Shreveport!!!!
Has anyone else noticed that Rick Steiner is missing a chunk out of his left ear?
Best tag team ever
Shame Rick never returned to the WWE.
Thank God he never went back, he would have been jobbed like Scott.
@@jasons2023 Agree. They'd have made him a jobber because their problems with Scott. Vince is petty like that.
I met rick.crest school . Wrestling cool guy
Long live big hair Rick Steiner! Watch the match vs Doom. The best.
2:28 was that a slide whistle?
That was a text tone, my phone had the same sound.
What happened to Arnold the pitbull?
Sad ending He ran away with Tamara Lynn Sytch and got hooked on junk.
I heard a story about that dog and what scott wouldn't made but enginered him to do!
ahhh dog face gremlin
It's weird seeing his ears sometimes.
Bill Watts was willing to use black wrestlers to make himself money so therefore was not a racist? lol
undercoverbrother67 Vince will leave money on the table to not push a black wrestler.
In the 90’s, Michael Jordan, Ken Griffey Jr, Mike Tyson, and Deion Sanders were some of the biggest celebrities in America, not just in sports....and in the case of Jordan and Tyson, they were probably the 2 biggest celebrities in the entire world alongside Michael Jackson.
You have all these black mega stars, but Vince thinks black champions won’t draw.
StuUngar just described two degrees of racists. Vince was so racist he'd rather pay money to exercise it. Bill Watts just used his racism in a way that didn't hurt his business..
I just said this to someone about black folks making him Money.
@@contextualprecision8442 the Rock made Vince all kinds of money
@@DPPLOWD The Rock made his money as a racially-ambiguous wrestler, not as a Black wrestler. That is the distinction.
Seems like a recurring pattern in Rick's life...
No wonder he always wore ear protection in matches. That looks like 2 honey buns on the side of his head
She was crazy lol
Drop the race card.
Easy for me to say being a straight white male, but it seems to me that there are racists and there are people with a racial bias, and that's not quite the same. A racist promoter would not push a Black wrestler under any circumstance. A promoter with a bias against Blacks would probably still push a Black wrestler if he could make money. That's not excusing the bias. It's still ignorant and stupid, but at least a person like that will let you earn a living and mind his own business.
Reading over the history of pro wrestling, you'd be a pretty limited promoter if you were racist. Probably wouldn't make very much money programming only white men on top. Because if you're racist against Blacks, you probably don't feel too great about Hispanics, Italians, Greeks, or any number of other ethnicities that have made money for promoters coast to coast. Can you imagine some promoter saying "No way I'm booking Landos! Lousy Greek!"