WWE Hall of Famer Scott Steiner says Hulk Hogan is a “motherf*cker” and a “piece of “sh*t”
WWE Hall of Famer Scott Steiner did an interview with Chris Van Vliet and here are the highlights courtesy of ChrisVanVliet.com…
On the inspiration for Big Poppa Pump: “Well, it first started like it was two different personalities. When I first came out of college, I was a college kid, happy-go-lucky. But when you’re in wrestling for a while, things change. Setbacks, people keep you down, politics, you get p*ssed off. So at that point, when I turned into Big Poppa Pump I was very pissed off and people could just kind of tell that in my interviews. Because I was tired of the bullsh*t of professional wrestling, things that happened behind closed doors. You don’t really know what’s going on. Luckily, I had some guys in the back doors that told me what was going on most of the time, but a lot of times I didn’t know. That was a real thing back then the older guys keeping the younger guys down. When I said that I got beat in my first match after turning heel, the call was made by Hulk Hogan to have me beat. So the reason I knew that because somebody that was in the vicinity of talking to him. So it might piss me off, but you can overcome wins and losses. People can see your personality and what you do on camera. Wins and losses, you can overcome them. But when another wrestler decides he’s going to decide who wins, it is bullsh*t.”
Why Hogan did that: “He’s a motherf*cker. There’s no other way I can say it, he’s a piece of sh*t. We did a Nitro in Buffalo and I knew who I had to wrestle, per se. But ten minutes before the show went on air at ten to eight I didn’t know if it was going to happen or not. We had to wait until Hogan got to the building and say, clear it. Yeah, you could do what they had written down.”
On if he is still not good with Hulk Hogan present day: “What am I gonna do now? But I don’t forget. There’s a reason why he got booed in California, all this stuff that came out with him, racist comments. Now you would never found that out if it wasn’t recorded behind closed doors. So I think a lot of people realize the perception, or the perception that WWE or WCW wanted of Hulk Hogan was not really him. The racist comment. Hogan and Savage. I was good friends with Savage, so I knew all the stories and he used to tell me all the stuff. Then of course the one time he tried to put me in jail. I was facing serious time. I could have been in jail for 15 years.”
What for: “Well, I found out the bullsh*t he was doing in TNA. So when I left, I let it be known that the next time I see him I would slap the sh*t out of him. But I hadn’t seen him for like a year, then I had met his wife backstage, it was in San Jose for the WrestleMania. It was this platinum blond that was looking at me. But finally, I kind of remember meeting [her]. I was still wasn’t sure. So went up to her and said, ‘Are you Hulk Hogan’s wife?’ And she said, Yeah. At that point he was going to induct Savage into the Hall of Fame, which was bullsh*t. So I told her that. I told her he was a piece of sh*t for that whole situation, and I was going to slap the sh*t out of him. I said that, nobody heard me. It was very low-key, and I didn’t raise my voice or anything. Grabbed my bags and left. Well, she called Hogan. He came to the airport, and then he called the San Jose Police Department saying that I slapped her and I threatened to kill him. Well that’s terroristic threats and aggravated assault. So I got a call from the San Jose Police Department. It was on TMZ and stuff. And luckily it happened at the airport because there were so many cameras. Otherwise it would have been her and him against me. So that would have been a tough case in court. But since it was on camera, I told them don’t bother me anymore. It’s on camera, they stopped.”