On the most recent episode of Something To Wrestle With Bruce Prichard on the MLW Radio Network, Bruce and Conrad get into all things WrestleMania IX. The episode is over three hours long, but early in the podcast as they are building toward the event, Bruce reveals something very interesting concerning the initial plans for Scott Steiner.
Co-host Conrad Thompson reads a Dave Meltzer report saying The Steiner Brothers were set to start on the road with the WWF on January 8th, months before the show of shows.
Prichard says Pat Patterson and himself were very high on Scott as a singles star. They pitched the idea of Scott Steiner winning the Royal Rumble as a surprise entrant and going on to headline WrestleMania IX and win the WWE World Championship.
Unfortunately, Vince said no. Bruce says McMahon didn’t feel it.
The former Brother Love says when the Steiner Brothers came in to meet with him, they expressed the desire to stay together as a tag-team duo. Vince saw them as a unit as well and decided not to separate them.
Prichard says it was pitched as a “what if” scenario during a creative meeting, but the Chairman of the Board passed on the idea.
Steiner would go on to have singles success later on in his career, but found most of it in WCW.
Steiner would later come back to WWE in 2002 and have a singles run but he never picked up a singles title to match the two WWF Tag Team Titles he won during his first run with his brother.
It is fascinating to wonder how different the professional wrestling landscape would be today if when Vince first heard that pitch from Bruce and Pat he would have said, “I love it pal!” instead.
