Scott Norton Scott Michael Norton ( June 15 , 1961 ) is an American professional wrestler who is best known for working for New Japan Pro Wrestling and World Championship Wrestling . Before wrestling . Scott Norton started out as a professional arm wrestler . He won over 30 championships during his days as an arm wrestler , including four U . S . National championships . His status in the arm wrestling world earned him a role in Sylvester Stallone ' s arm wrestling movie , Over the Top . While touring the arm wrestling circuit in Japan , Norton was approached by New Japan Pro Wrestling about becoming a professional wrestler , but he turned it down initially . Norton also toured with Prince in 1983 as his bodyguard . Early career . After finally deciding to go the pro wrestling route , Norton was trained to wrestle by former Olympic wrestler Brad Rheingans . Verne Gagne decided to debut Norton before he was totally finished with his training , putting him on TV as a regular performer for the American Wrestling Association in 1989 . He sometimes teamed with John Nord as the Yukon Lumberjacks . Norton soon earned the nickname " Flash " for his quick arm wrestling victories . By the end of 1989 , Norton left the AWA and went to the Pacific Northwest territory to further his career . In PNW , Norton started out as a face with a lumberjack gimmick and the nickname " Flapjack " . He soon formed a tag team with John Nord once more to reprise their lumberjack gimmick from the AWA . In 1990 , Norton turned heel and broke away from Nord to become a singles competitor . He won the Pacific Northwest Heavyweight Championship from Brian Adams on May 12 , 1990 , but was stripped of the title two weeks later after attacking several wrestlers . New Japan Pro Wrestling ( 1991 - 1993 ) . In 1990 , Norton signed with New Japan Pro Wrestling . Upon debuting for the promotion , Norton alternated between tag team and mid - card singles matches . Norton appeared at both the joint NJPW / World Championship Wrestling Starrcade in Egg Dome shows giving him exposure to WCW executives . The working agreement between NJPW and WCW meant that The Steiner Brothers would tour Japan on a regular basis , often fighting against Scott Norton alongside a variety of partners . On November 5 , 1991 Norton acted as a substitute for the injured Scott Steiner in an IWGP Tag Team Championship match . Norton and Rick Steiner were unsuccessful on the night and lost the tag - team titles to Hiroshi Hase and Keiji Mutoh . About a year after losing the title he never technically held , Norton won the tag - team titles properly when he and Tony Halme beat the Steiner Brothers for the gold on November 22 , 1992 . The power house team only held on to the titles for a little over three weeks before losing them to the Hell Raisers ( Hawk Warrior and Power Warrior ) . After splitting up with Halme , Norton started to team with Hercules Hernandez in March 1993 . Hercules was a fellow power house wrestler and the two formed The Jurassic Powers , a team that won the IWGP Tag Team Championship from the Hell Raisers . The Powers held the title for about four months before losing them back to the Hell Raisers at NJPW ' s January 4 Dome Show . [ 7 ] While holding the title , the Jurassic Powers successfully defended against teams such as Keiji Mutoh and Hiroshi Hase , The Nasty Boys , Takayuki Iizuka and Akira Nogami , Jake " The Snake " Roberts and Brutus Beefcake , Masa Saito and Manabu Nakanishi and The Barbarian and Haku in non - title competition . The team also and made it to the finals of the 1993 Super Grade Tag League , where they lost to Keiji Mutoh and Hiroshi Hase . After breaking up with Hernandez , Norton failed to achieve much notoriety in the singles ranks nor in the tag team division , where he teamed with a variety of partners such as Mike Enos , Ron Simmons , Masahiro Chono , Osamu Kido , and Road Warrior Hawk . World Championship Wrestling ( 1993 - 1999 ) . Norton returned to the U . S . and signed with World Championship Wrestling in 1993 . The promoters first tried to get Norton over with the fans as a villain by feuding with Sting , but the feud never captivated the fans and was scrapped without much fanfare . Norton returned to WCW in September 1995 , where he briefly feuded with Shark , after costing Norton to lose to Randy Savage on the September 11 edition of WCW Monday Nitro . Fire and Ice . During a WCW Saturday Night taping , Norton squared off against Ice Train . The bout ended in a double count out when both men clotheslined the other , knocking each out . After the match , the two shook hands and Norton explained to announcer Gene Okerlund that he felt that they would make a formidable tag team because of their similar wrestling styles . The team was quickly named Fire and Ice . At Slamboree , Norton and Ice Train were randomly drawn to be on the same team and easily defeated the makeshift team of Big Bubba Rogers and Stevie Ray . The team advanced to the " Lord of The Ring " battle royal , but neither won the match . At the Great American Bash , Fire and Ice came head to head with Norton ' s long - time rivals , the Steiner Brothers . The two teams was engaged in a mini - feud of sorts , as the two teams tried to show who was better powerhouse team . On that night the Steiner Brothers won , but Fire and Ice were not deterred . After a pre - PPV loss to The Rock ' n ' Roll Express at Bash at the Beach , dissension started to appear between the two , a dissension that turned into battle as Norton attacked Ice Train after another team loss . Norton defeated the Ice Train at Hog Wild in a submission match , but lost to Ice Train in a rematch a month later . After Fire and Ice ended , Norton split his time between WCW and NJPW , achieving more success in NJPW than WCW most notably in the tag team division . Norton and Shinya Hashimoto teamed up and won the Super Grade Tag League in 1996 after beating Keiji Mutoh and Rick Steiner in the finals . New World Order . In late 1996 , Norton joined the New World Order ( nWo ) , which gave his WCW career some direction after the breakup of Fire and Ice . In the nWo , Norton teamed with Buff Bagwell as Vicious and Delicious . They feuded with the Steiner Brothers , but were never able to win the WCW World Tag Team Championship . During his nWo days , Norton traveled back and forth to NJPW , where he was a member of nWo Japan , and became New Japan ' s gaijin ace while also becoming one of the few wrestlers to be a regular member of both factions . On September 23 , 1998 , he won the vacant IWGP Heavyweight Championship by defeating Yuji Nagata . Norton ' s title win was mentioned only once in America on a broadcast of Nitro while he was seen holding the belt , but Norton ' s standing in the WCW version of the nWo never changed from this fact mostly due to the nWo ' s leader being " Hollywood " Hulk Hogan who was the WCW / nWo World Heavyweight Champion . Norton held the IWGP Heavyweight title for four months before losing the title to Keiji Mutoh . Norton is one of six foreigners who ever held the IWGP Championship , the others being Big Van Vader , Salman Hashimikov , Bob Sapp , Brock Lesnar and AJ Styles . Norton soon began playing a smaller role in WCW , becoming part of the nWo " B - Team " , which often placed him in mid - lower card matches ; although he would continue to squash jobbers frequently in singles competition . While in NJPW , however , Norton was seen as a main eventer and constant threat to world champions . He left WCW completely in 1999 after losing a match against Goldberg on the September 30 episode of Thunder and began focusing his efforts on NJPW , where he was part of Masahiro Chono ' s Team 2000 . Return to NJPW ( 1999 - 2006 ) . On March 17 , 2001 , Norton defeated Kensuke Sasaki in Nagoya , Japan to capture the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship a second time . His second reign was shorter than his first , and he lost to Kazuyuki Fujita on his first defense . After the loss Norton started to team with former WCW foe Rick Steiner whenever Steiner toured Japan , but otherwise he was planted solidly in the mid - card as a test any hopeful world title challenger would have to pass . Norton temporarily retired in 2004 , but didn ' t stay away long . [ 30 ] When he returned , he once again teamed with Rick Steiner . In 2006 , following that year ' s New Japan Cup , he left NJPW becoming a freelancer in the process after 16 years in the business . Independent circuit and semi - retirement ( 2006 - Present ) . In mid - 2006 , Norton started his own independent promotion , Wild West Championship Wrestling , based in the southwest of United States , where he acted as both a booker and wrestler until its closure later that year . After wrestling for Hustle from mid to late 2007 , Norton took a near - year long hiatus before returning on October 24 , 2008 , where he and Masahiro Chono defeated Don Frye and Yoshihiro Takayama in the first part of the Pro Wrestling Expo . The next day , Norton , Frye and Dick Togo lost to Chono , Eric Young and Kohei Sato . Since then , Norton has been inactive from wrestling . In an August 2010 interview , Norton revealed that he would be interested in a run with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling . Norton lives in Brentwood , which is located minutes outside of TNA ' s headquarters in Nashville , Tennessee and commented that wrestling is , " something I enjoy doing . You miss it . I can still perform at a high level . I ’ m still a big , strong man . I would like to give it another shot . If I can get a couple - year run , I ' ll fold up my tent and call it a day . " On October 7 , 2012 , Norton teamed with Keiji Mutoh to defeat the team of Masanobu Fuchi and Taiyo Kea in a tag team match on the first event of All Japan Pro Wrestling ' s 40th Anniversary Tour .