Scott Rechsteiner

is an American professional wrestler better known by his ring name Scott Steiner Steiner is known for his appearances with World Championship Wrestling WCW alongside his older brother Rick as the Steiner Brothers and as a member of the New World Order He is also known for his appearances with Jim Crockett Promotions JCP World Wrestling AllStars WWA World Wrestling Federation Entertainment WWE and Impact Wrestling Among other accolades Steiner is a threetime world champion a onetime WCW World Heavyweight Champion onetime WWA World Heavyweight Champion and onetime WWC Universal Heavyweight Champion a twotime WCW United States Heavyweight Champion twotime WCW World Television Champion and a onetime TNA World Tag Team Champion Career Steiner first began training under The Sheik and debuting in the Indianabased World Wrestling Association in 1986 as Scott Rexsteiner which was a variation of the spelling of his real last name On August 14 1986 in Dearborn Michigan Steiner defeated The Great Wojo Greg Wojciechowski for the WWA World Heavyweight Championship He held the title until May 3 1987 when he lost to Wojciechowski in Toledo Ohio Steiner then formed a tag team with Jerry Graham Jr and the partners defeated Chris Carter and Mohammad Saad with their manager The Dark Angel for the WWA Tag Team Championship on October 6 1987 World Wrestling Federation 19921994 The Steiner Brothers left WCW in November 1992 with Scott vacating the WCW World Television Championship They quickly signed contracts with the World Wrestling Federation making their televised debut in an interview on the December 21 1992 edition of WWF Prime Time Wrestling as babyfaces They also appeared on the debut episode of Monday Night RAW on January 11 1993 They made their WWF payperview debut on January 24 1993 at the Royal Rumble defeating the Beverly Brothers Blake and Beau At WrestleMania IX on April 4 1993 the Steiner Brothers defeated The Headshrinkers Samu and Fatu Extreme Championship Wrestling 1995 The Steiner Brothers debuted in Extreme Championship Wrestling on July 28 1995 at the Orange County Fairgrounds in Middletown New York defeating Dudley Dudley and Vampire Warrior They next appeared with ECW in The Flagstaff on August 4 1995 in Jim Thorpe Pennsylvania defeating Dudley Dudley and 2 Cold Scorpio The Steiner Brothers made their debut in the Philadelphia Pennsylvania ECW Arena on August 5 1995 at Wrestlepalooza teaming with Eddie Guerrero in a loss to Scorpio Dean Malenko and Cactus Jack On August 25 1995 in Jim Thorpe they defeated Scorpio and Malenko and they went on to defeat Scorpio and Chris Benoit the following evening On August 28 1995 they defeated Dudley Dudley and Dances With Dudley in the Big Apple Dinner Theater in Kennett Square Pennsylvania