My Favorite 100 Figures in Pro Wrestling - 100. The Numbers Don't Lie (1 Viewer)

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All the rage these past couple years to have an ego countdown thread.

Join me for the main eventers, tag teams and jobbers (and more) that I love to watch the most.

This thread will have some nostalgia acts, but it is not a list of the GOAT. It will be biased toward who's currently out there, will sample heavily from Japan and hopefully provide entertaining enough commentary and links to make it worth your read.

 

[hagmania]

100. Scott Steiner

Debut: 1986

Status: Not Officially Retired

Best version: Big Poppa Pump

Fun fact: owned a Shoney's in Georgia

An excellent place to kick off this list, Steiner embodies one of my favorite features: go hard on your gimmick. After separating from his tag team partner (and actual brother) Rick, Scott found his top of the card character by going WAY over the top. The change to Big Poppa Pump is one of the greatest persona transformations in the industry, allowing a completely bat#### crazy individual to shine through during the peak of "Crash TV" that was the Attitude Era.

It wasn't until he moved to TNA (like most ex-WCW guys) in the mid-2000s that we saw the Genetic Freak's true genius surface. In an all-timer of a promo ahead of a triple threat match at a looming PPV, Steiner laid out his odds of success:

https://youtu.be/msDuNZyYAIQ

A transcript is provided below:

Spoiler

Lauren: Scott Steiner, it's going to be a three way for the TNA Heavyweight Title at Sacrifice between you, Kurt Angle and Samoa Joe. Now, before you get there, you have an important step tonight, as you and X-Division champion Petey Williams take on the unlikely duo of Kurt Angle and Samoa Joe.

Scott Steiner: You know they say that all men are created equal, but you look at me and you look at Samoa Joe and you can see that statement is not true. See, normally if you go one on one with another wrestler, you got a 50/50 chance of winning. But I'm a genetic freak and I'm not normal! So you got a 25%, AT BEST, at beat me. Then you add Kurt Angle to the mix, your chances of winning drastic go down. See the 3 way at Sacrifice, you got a 33 1/3 chance of winning, but I, I got a 66 and 2/3 chance of winning, because Kurt Angle KNOWS he can't beat me and he's not even gonna try!

So Samoa Joe, you take your 33 1/3 chance, minus my 25% chance and you got an 8 1/3 chance of winning at Sacrifice. But then you take my 75% chance of winning, if we was to go one on one, and then add 66 2/3 per cents, I got 141 2/3 chance of winning at Sacrifice. See Joe, the numbers don't lie, and they spell disaster for you at Sacrifice.

See, but I'm gonna break it down for all you ladies. Would you rather be with me? Or would you rather be with Joe?

Lauren: : Well, I think Joe's kinda nice, y'know...

Scott Steiner: See, you're one of those girls that like romance. I'mma talk to all my freaks out there. Would you rather come home to me, a genetic freak, to be satisfied every night? Or go home to that fat ### Samoa Joe? See, tonight we're going to win and I'm gonna be the World Champion at Sacrifice. C'mon Petey.

Petey Williams: Hey, Scotty, just like you always say: Big Poppa Pump's your hook up. Well the Maple Leaf Muscle is who you need to look up. Holla if you hear that!

 

[facook]

1. The Figure Four.

WHOOO!!!!!!

 

[Ghost Rider]

The Big Poppa Pump gimmick was pretty entertaining, but he was at his best in the ring in the early 90's.  The Frankensteiner is still one of the most awesome moves ever to watch, and it's crazy to think he was able to do that move at the time (he wasn't as crazy jacked as he was in the later 90's, but still pretty jacked). 

 

[hagmania]

The Big Poppa Pump gimmick was pretty entertaining, but he was at his best in the ring in the early 90's.  The Frankensteiner is still one of the most awesome moves ever to watch, and it's crazy to think he was able to do that move at the time (he wasn't as crazy jacked as he was in the later 90's, but still pretty jacked). 

Oh no doubt about in-ring ability. I love some workers for their work and the Frankensteiner is really something else, but I love Scott Steiner for becoming the Poppa.