WWE Hall of Famer Scott Steiner recently appeared on Chris Van Vliet’s podcast and tore into fellow Hulk Hogan, whom he has been at odds with for a number of years stemming from their time in WCW. According to Steiner, Hogan used his influence and politics to have him lose his first match after turning heel.
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 (minutes) to 8 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.
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.”
Steiner also looked back at the infamous airport incident where he ran into Hogan’s wife, told her he was going to kill Hogan which then caused him to be banned from the WWE Hall of Fame while also dealing with having to clear his name. The issue stemmed with Steiner not being happy that Hogan was going to induct Randy Savage into the WWE Hall of Fame.
“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. 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.”
