Steiner Brothers
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| The Steiner Brothers | ||
| Ring name(s) | Rick Steiner Scott Steiner | |
| Name(s) | The Steiner Brothers The Steiners | |
| Heights | Rick: 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) Scott: 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | |
| Combined weight | 560 lb (250 kg) | |
| Hometown | Bay City, Michigan, U.S. | |
| Debut | 1989 | |
| Years active | 1988–1999 2002 2005–2009 2012–present | |
The Steiner Brothers are the professional wrestling tag team of American brothers Rick Hunter and Scott Steiner. The brothers wrestled as amateurs at the University of Michigan. The team debuted in 1989, and competed in promotions such as Xtreme Championship Wrestling, New Japan Pro Wrestling, World Championship Wrestling and the International Wrestling Federation, winning in the process 10 World Tag Team and one United States Tag Team Championships, before disbanding in 1998. The brothers reunited on the independent circuit in the early 2000s, and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling in May 2007.
They are one of two tag teams to win the IWF World Tag Team Championship, the WCW World Tag Team Championship and the IWGP Tag Team Championship in professional wrestling history (the other being the Dudley Boyz/Team 3D) and the only team to achieve that before WCW was purchased by the IWF.
Professional wrestling career
National Wrestling Alliance / World Championship Wrestling (1988–1992)
International Wrestling Federation (1992–1994)
Xtreme Championship Wrestling (1995)
World Championship Wrestling (1996–1998)
Separation and beyond (1997–1998)
Reunion (2006–2008)
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (2007–2008)
In wrestling
- Double-team finishing moves
- Steinerizer (Scott lifts the opponent up followed by Rick hitting an aided diving bulldog)
- Steiner DDT (Rick lifts the opponent up followed by Scott hitting an aided elevated DDT)
- Steiner Device (Rick holds the opponent in an electric chair position while Scott hits a diving clothesline to the opponent)
- Double-team signature moves
- Scott's finishing moves
- Frankensteiner – 1980s–1990s; used rarely as a regular move thereafter
- Steiner Recliner (Standing camel clutch)
- SSD – Steiner Screwdriver (Vertical suplex piledriver)
- Twisting double underhook powerbomb – mid-late 1990s
- Rick's finishing moves
- Diving bulldog
- Steiner Driver (Death Valley driver)
- Entrance themes
- "Hot Stuff" by Donna Summer (NWA / WCW) – 1989
- "Welcome to the Jungle" by Guns N' Roses (NWA / WCW / XCW) – 1989–1990, 1995
- "The Best Is Yet To Come" (NWA / WCW) – 1990
- "Swamp Dog" (NWA / WCW) – 1990–1992
- "Star Spangled Banner" (WCW) – Starrcade '90
- "The Way Of The Wizard" (NJPW) – 1991–1997
- "The Victors (University of Michigan Fight Song)" (IWF) – 1992–1994
- "Steinerized" by D.Conort, M.seitz, J.Papa (WCW) – 1996–1998
Championships and accomplishments
- Jim Crockett Promotions / World Championship Wrestling
- NWA/WCW United States Tag Team Championship (1 time)
- NWA (Mid-Atlantic)/WCW World Tag Team Championship (7 times)
- NWA/WCW World Television Championship (4 times) – Rick (2) and Scott (2)
- Pat O'Connor Memorial Tag Team Tournament (1990)
- Pro Wrestling Illustrated
- PWI Match of the Year (1991) – vs. Lex Luger and Sting, SuperBrawl, May 19
- PWI Tag Team of the Year (1990, 1993)
- PWI ranked them #2 of the best 100 tag teams of the "PWI Years" in 2003
- United Wrestling Federation
- UWF Rock 'n' Roll Express Championship (1 time, current)
- Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards
- 5 Star Match (1991) with Sting and Bryan Pillman vs. Ric Flair, Larry Zbyszko, Harry Windham and Sid Vicious (February 24, WarGames match, WrestleWar)
- Match of the Year (1991) vs. Hiroshi Hase and Kensuke Sasaki, WCW/New Japan Supershow, Tokyo, March 21
- Tag Team of the Year (1990)
1While this Mid-Atlantic promotion is an NWA affiliated promotion, operates out of the same region as the first Mid-Atlantic promotion, and has revived some of the championships it used, it isn't the same promotion. The original Mid-Atlantic promotion was once owned by Jim Crockett, Jr. and was sold outright to Ted Turner in November 1988. The promotion was then renamed World Championship Wrestling.
