WWE Hall of Famer Scott Steiner recently spoke about his departure from the company that took place in 2004. ‘Big Poppa Pump’ was part of a popular tag team with his brother Rick, known as The Steiner Brothers. They held the WWE World Tag Team Championship twice during the 90s.
But Scott parted ways with WWE in August 2004 while he was out of action due to injury. This happened on a bitter note and Scott has been critical of WWE since then. However, this month, he returned to the company to be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame alongside his brother.
Scott Steiner opens up on leaving WWE
During his recent interview with The Detroit News, Scott Steiner spoke about his exit from the company, stating that it’s not worth it to be bitter regarding his insults of Triple H and Stephanie McMahon, stating he’s let go of his ill will.
“You’ve gotta let it go, you can’t harbor all the bad feelings. You’ve gotta grow up.”
‘Big Poppa Pump’ also had stints outside of WWE and underwent a major character change which saw him wearing chainmail on his head and a pair of glasses to the ring. During the same interview, he stated that the character change was a mix of what he kept bottled up and what a decade in the business had done to his mentality.
“I knew I had to go in a totally different direction, so I just totally flipped the switch. In amateur wrestling, you really didn’t talk too much trash. Wrestling is a humbling experience: if you get too big, you’ll get beat. So I had always had that mindset. But after awhile, once I saw everything in the business, the politics, I had a totally different mindset than when I broke in. I had a whole different attitude, it was more of a rage. And that’s what came out,” said Scott.
