Rick Steiner

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 3-Winning the tag titles in their last night on Smackdown

## Steiner Brothers and first tag title reigns(1989-1990)

Rick Steiner's first canon match was in the first ever Saturday Night and first ever WCW show as he was defeated by his brother Scott Steiner to qualify for the inaugural WCW Heaviweight Championship tournament.

Steiner Brothers continued amounting tag wins until Starrcade 1989 where they defeated the undefeated Road Warriors to become WCW tag team champions

They defended against Rock N Roll Express before shockingly losing the titles at Halloween Havoc to Vader and Kevin Sullivan as Vader did all of the work, they had a rematch the week afterwards where Steiner Bros won back the titles not letting Sullivan tag in Vader. At Starrcade they defended the titles against Samoan Swat Team before losing it in a cash-in by Fabulous Freebirds

Steiners became 3 time tag champions at Superbrawl 1 as they defeated Doom, Freebirds and Midnight Express to win the vacant tag titles, they were yet again cashed in on at Great American Bash by Terry Taylor and Brian Pillman and were so pissed they turned heel as they broke everything surrounding them but lost in a rematch at Halloween Havoc in their last WCW match

## Empire and first WWF tag title reign(1992-1993)

On the RAW after Wrestlemania 8 as Koko B.Ware was celebrating retaining the WWF Championship and achieving a full day as WWF champion, the lights went out as Sycho Sid appeared on one side of the barricade, Randy Savage on the other and Steiner Brothers on another as they led a beatdown and formed Empire

Steiner Brothers entered the tag team battle royal at In Your House 1 to determine the inaugural RAW tag team champions but ended up being eliminated by the Headbangers. Both brothers were in the MITB ladder match but failed to win it

Sid got in a feud with Ramon while Steiner Bros had a feud against Headbangers and at Summerslam Sid and Steiner Bros defeated Ramon and Headbangers in a 6 men tag to enter the G1. As the main group of RAW they went up against the main group of Smackdown Four Horsemen at Survivor Series for the SS Briefcases, Empire won after GM of Smackdown Bobby Heenan turned on 4HM and helped Empire win. This was due to a trade that happened the day of Survivor Series where all of Empire was traded to Smackdown while Four Horsemen was traded to RAW

At In Your House 5, Steiner Brothers defeated Demolition to become world tag team champions. Steiners defended against Jeff Jarrett and Jerry Lawler and Headshrinkers, Strike Force stepped up as their challengers as they were the team with most reigns ever in WWF and at Wrestlemania 9 they defeated the Steiners in a ladder match to win the world tag titles

## Last feuds in WWF(1993-1994)

The world tag titles were vacated as Tito Santana returned and put up to grabs in a tournament where Bobby Heenan revealed that Steiner Bros would automatically be in the finals but they still lost against Doink The Clown and Barry Horowitz

They were pissed about this and bitched about it to Bobby Heenan who said he couldn't do anything about it, they tried asking for more shots but Bobby Heenan said that Vince told him to step down from giving random shots to Empire so they would have to earn it. At Survivor Series after Yokozuna and Duane Gill defeated Steiner Bros to retain the tag titles, Steiner Bros left Bobby Heenan alone as they fired him from his manager position

At Smackdown 75, Steiner Brothers went up against Smoking Gunns to determine the NO1 contenders to the tag titles at Wrestlemania, Steiners were about to win when Bobby Heenan pulled the ref out of there and helped Smoking Gunns win, Bobby Heenan was beat up by them and fired from his SD GM position

At Smackdown 82, they announced it would be their last night on Smackdown as they had been traded to RAW, Yokozuna and Duane Gill challenged them to a match where Steiner Bros shockingly became world tag team champions on their last night and took the title to RAW

New GM of Smackdown kept the Wrestlemania match as Smoking Gunns vs Steiner Brothers but if Smoking Gunns didn't win, RAW would keep both tag titles and Smackdown would be forced to make new ones which costs a lot so Piper added the stakes that if Smoking Gunns didn't win they would be forced to leave for RAW. At Wrestlemania 10 Smoking Gunns defeated Steiner Bros to win the world tag titles in their last WWF match

## Return to WCW, multiple tag title reigns and cash-ins(1994-1997)

Steiner Brothers returned as a last minute addition to a NO1 contendership tag match between Paul Roma and Arn Anderson vs Brad Armstrong and Stan Lane which Steiners won, this decision was widely criticized as it was the finals of a tournament created to make new tag teams and an old returning team won it. At Bash at the Beach, they defeated Harlem Heat to become 4 time tag champions but Brad Armstrong and Stan Lane immediatly cashed in to win the titles

They tried getting the tag titles back in a rematch at Fall Brawl also involving Harlem Heat but failed to do so. At Halloween Havoc Steiners defeated Harlem Heat to end their feud

They started a feud with Four Horsemen as they faced every single variation of them as a duo and at Slamboree defeated Lex Luger and Arn Anderson to become 5 time champions, during their reign Faces of Fear always threatened they would cash in and the tradition continued at Halloween Havoc as during a match against American Males, Faces of Fear cashed in to make it a triple threat and become champions. At Starrcade they were involved in a fatal 4 way for the titles against American Males, Public Enemy and Konnan and Juventud Guerrera which the latter won

Steiner Brothers saw that they were cashed in on every single year they were in WCW so they decided to be the ones winning the CITL contract which they did at Bash at the Beach but still won the tag titles without the briefcase in an episode of Nitro against Kevin Nash and HHH. They were cocky and accepted Harlem Heat's challenge for a match for the briefcases, Harlem Heat beat them to win the briefcases and right after cashed in to win the tag titles at Hog Wild

At Fall Brawl, they became 7 time champions defeating American Males and Harlem Heat in a triple threat. At World War 3 The Outsdiers defeated Steiners to win the tag titles. At Starrcade, Steiner had his first singles match in the show defeating Lex Luger to retain the title

## The Resistance(1997)

Steiner Brothers aligned themselves with Randy Savage against NWO, at Uncensored 1997 they were defeated by Hogan, Nash and Hall. On the following Nitro, NWO closed the show with Curt Hennig's WCW Heaviweight title coronation when Arn Anderson, who has been wanting to run WCW since the start of 1997, led an ambush with Randy Savage, Los Guerreros, Steiner Brothers, Ultimo Dragon and Jeff Jarrett as they finally managed to take down NWO.

They were introduced as The Resistance, the group that would finally put an end to NWO's reign at the top, they were all forced to have matches at Slamboree and if they didn't win all of them, they would all be banished from WCW, at Slamboree Steiner Bros defeated Chris Benoit and Steven Regal to become tag team champions for an eighth time. At Great American Bash, The Resistance fought NWO in a wargames match where if they won, they would all get singles matches for the WCW Heaviweight title, The Resistance managed to win on NWO's first big loss ever

Rick got his WCW Heaviweight Championship shot at Nitro 164 but was defeated by Hollywood Hogan

## Steiner Brothers breakup and fallout(1998-1999)

Scott Steiner started a world title feud against Sting and Rick was heavily involved in it as it was the plan all along for Sting to become WCW Heaviweight champion and none of The Resistance members were supposed to win it. At Uncensored Sting defeated Chavo Guerrero and Rick Steiner in a triple threat to retain the title

At Bash at the Beach, Steiner Brothers defeated Jim Neidhart and Davey Boy Smith but were then cashed in by Los Guerreros who won the titles ending Steiners' longest tag title reign. They managed to win the tag titles back at Great American Bash and Lex Luger and The Barbarian immediatly cashed in but for the first time ever, Steiners managed to retain during a cash-in. At Road Wild, they defeated Los Guerreros in one of the greatest tag matches of all time

Steiners were pissed that the NWO was the main focus of the show again with their civil war but at Fall Brawl Scott Steiner beat up Rick and let HHH and Kevin Nash win the tag titles as Scott joined NWO Chaos.

Rick returned at Halloween Havoc eliminating his brother from the havoc battle royal as he revealed he was now part of NWO Wolfpac. The feud culminated at Starrcade as Scott defeated Rick

Rick Steiner was part of another NWO Civil War as NWO Wolfpac broke into 2 parts, he entered the part that was led by Scott Hall but the storyline was quickly dropped as all of Wolfpac split apart

He started trying to help Jeff Jarrett get a US title shot but then Jarrett would have to reward him. At Bash at the Beach Jarrett, Rick and Harris Brothers defeated Chris Benoit, Brian Adams, Dave Taylor and The Great Muta as Rick paid Meng to help them win. Jarrett had his US title match at Great American Bash and The Hacker revealed footage of Jarrett saying he was gonna drop Rick as soon as he won the US title so Rick beat up Jarrett and prevented him from winning. At Road Wild Jeff Jarrett defeated Rick Steiner to end the feud

## Career history

### Companies/Promotions

 WWF(RAW)
 WWF(Smackdown)
 WWF(RAW)
 WCW

### Face/heel turns

 Heel
 Face

## Championships and accomplishments

* World Wrestling Federation
* World Tag Team Championships(2 times) - with Scott Steiner

* World Championship Wrestling
* WCW Tag Team Championships(9 times) - with Scott Steiner(9)
* Cash in the Ladder(1996)
* Match of the Year(1998) with Scott Steiner vs Los Guerreros at Road Wild
* Tag Team of the Year(1989, 1990, 1995)