On a recent edition of the “Two Man Power Trip” podcast, WWE Hall of Famer Scott Steiner discussed overhauling his character in a major way in WCW.
Steiner took on a completely new persona after he betrayed his brother Rick Steiner and joined the nWo in 1998. The 61-year-old wrestler said,
“We had wrestled everybody and we were popular, I knew I had to do a drastic change from what I was. The black hair and mullet, otherwise people would see me as the same, so that’s when I turned on my brother… I showed up [in the locker room] and when I showed up, believe it or not, a whole lot of people didn’t recognize me, a lot of the announcers didn’t recognize me either because I didn’t really tell anybody I was going to do it. The only person that knew it — I ran it by Eric Bischoff.
I could do the Frankensteiner, I just didn’t want to do it because I didn’t want people to cheer me, because it was a fairly popular move, so I basically just changed my style to ground-and-pound. I was paid to be a heel.”
