Even though Scott Steiner made his professional debut in the middle of the 1980s, it wasn’t until much later in the Monday Night Wars that he discovered the gimmick that would make him the “big bad booty daddy” that everyone knew as “Big Poppa Pump.”
In a recent Q&A session at “Music City Multi Con,” Steiner reflected on his 1998 rivalry with his brother Rick, which served as the impetus for the development of the Big Poppa Pump persona.
Steiner declared, “It was time for me to change.” “At that point, I was pretty much tired of everything and had a different mindset. That’s essentially the reason I went blonde, bleached my hair, and turned on my brother that evening because I knew I couldn’t pretend to be the same guy.”
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Steiner acknowledged that in order to make people dislike him, he had to completely change who he was; he felt that this was far easier to achieve than the opposite. But his immediate happiness was short-lived, as he was unable to secure a victory on pay-per-view after his repackaging, a move Steiner believed would kill any momentum he had built up for himself.
“You don’t do that to the first guy who just repackaged you know?” stated Steiner. “But you try and make chicken salad out of chicken s**t, so I just kept working on the character … work on my interviews, tried to be a b*****d and people took off.”
Throughout the rest of his wrestling tenure, Scott Steiner exclusively adopted the persona of Big Poppa Pump. Even in retirement, he continues to embrace his iconic image, often sporting his trademark chainmail attire for public events and conventions. This distinctive style remains synonymous with Steiner’s legacy in the wrestling world, serving as a nostalgic reminder for fans of his larger-than-life persona.
Before he rose to fame as “Big Poppa Pump,” Scott Steiner and his brother Rick Steiner were well-liked babyfaces who frequently won gold. But in 1998, Scott turned against his brother, joined the NWO, and had a dramatic physical transformation. In “Two Man Power Trip,” Steiner explained the rationale behind his dramatic transformation.
Steiner claimed that the purpose of his dramatic bodily transformation was to alter people’s perceptions of him. “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.”Steiner continued, recalling how few people recognized him when he returned to the locker room after visiting a salon in California to get his hair and beard bleached. “I showed up 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.”
Finally, he recollected how he altered his wrestling technique and faced criticism for gaining excessive muscle, with some arguing he was no longer capable of doing the “Frankensteiner”. “I could have performed the Frankensteiner, but I didn’t want to because I didn’t want people to applaud me—it was a pretty common technique. Instead, I simply switched to a ground-and-pound approach. I got paid to act shady.
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