Scott Steiner - The Early Years

[Hulkotron]

anyone knows how could he have had that insane bicep peak - aka the infamous bicep kiss he did every time he came out
havent seen any bodybuilder that can pull this successfully

Scott did lots of curls.

[Mr.1derful]

Synthol, esiclene and the like...

Steiner had guns way before that stuff came on the scene.  I suspect he may have had a bicep tear that lead in part to his freaky peak.  He could turn his fist outward and still have this huge peak, which is rare.  

[Kwon_2]

Weren't Steiner and Fagwell buddies off-stage?

7:30 = Friendly respectful pat of Peace by Fluff on Scott
17:40 = Scotts reaction when Buff impersonated Scott

[OB1]

Steiner had guns way before that stuff came on the scene.  I suspect he may have had a bicep tear that lead in part to his freaky peak.  He could turn his fist outward and still have this huge peak, which is rare.  

Esiclene is around since the 70s and even then BBs went so far and injected silicone directly in their muscles...
Synthol came around in the 1990s (1996).
Not accounting other "experiments".
Well his weird shaped arms give it away.
No idea what's actually in them but there is something...
This just isn't natural:

[Ronnie Rep]

You were talking about the serious trachea injury you suffered in Puerto Rico. Can you take us through that whole experience?

I didn’t realize there was a big problem until later on that night.

I got kicked pretty hard in the throat, but I finished the match. I felt like there was bleeding back there, but the EMTs at the building said there was nothing wrong.

I actually went back to the hotel. My throat was hurting pretty bad, but I just thought it was swelled up, so I tried to eat some ice cream to bring down the swelling back there, but it didn’t help.
Then I tried eating, and I couldn’t eat because it was just so painful for the food to go down.
Then I went back up to my hotel room and stayed there for about an hour or so, and then I felt my lungs starting to get heavy and I was having cold chills. Then I started spitting up blood.

That’s when I called the ambulance, and they rushed me to the hospital, which was an experience.

I’ve been to jail before, and it was like the gates of the jail at the hospital.

There were 20-foot high steel gates and there were armed guards outside the hospital. The opened the door, which creaked, and then they slammed it shut. I walked in there, and there was literally people lined up, bleeding, screaming down the corridors. Nobody was speaking English, and it was kind of freaky.

I was actually at the same hospital where Bruiser Brody died.

So, I was kind of freaked out.

I called a couple of my buddies because I wanted to get out of there. I came in and they took some scans, made me drink some stuff to see what the damage was. That was brutal trying to drink that stuff.

They finally found that I did have a torn trachea. The bad part about it was that it was torn in my chest. They told me I had five hours to live.

The air that was supposed to be going into my lungs was now going into my skin. That turns poisonous and then you die.

I still didn’t really want to believe them. My buddy owns a private jet, and he was going to fly it down. They kind of sensed that I wanted to get out of there.

Thank God that didn’t happen, because my lung would have collapsed and they couldn’t have saved me because the trachea was torn. They put me on some sedatives and kind of calmed me down. I was still fighting it and trying to get out of there, because I didn’t want to have surgery in Puerto Rico. Finally, a Puerto Rican doctor came in and calmed me a little bit, but he still sensed that I wanted to leave so he put me under.

The next time I woke up – I had been in an induced coma for two days because the pain would have been so bad – I felt like I was choking. It felt like I was going to drown because I couldn’t get any air. They pulled the ventilator out of my throat and I woke up.

They told me they cut through my lat, basically split my ribs in half, and then cut through my lung, sewed my trachea up.

Then they put a tube in my lung to drain for two weeks. I just swelled up. I looked brutal, like a 300-pound fat guy. It was the most swelling I ever experienced. I still couldn’t fly, so I had to take a cruise ship home. I went to get on the cruise ship – and no cruise ship. A guy jumped off and committed suicide, so the FBI boarded the ship and had to circle for like 17 hours. So I had to wait an extra day in Puerto Rico, got on a cruise ship, and it took me another week to get home. I took my tour bus back up to where I live, and I tried to recover. I still kind of worried, so I went to a doctor to see if they did everything right, and the doctor shook my hand and said, “You’re lucky to be here. Those doctors saved your life.” That will mess with your mind.

I was kind of messed up for three or four months, knowing that I could have been dead.

First time I have ever seen or heard the details about it

[Leatherneck]

It's a shame that WCW waited until they were on life support before the put him as a main eventer.

[Mr.1derful]

Esiclene is around since the 70s and even then BBs went so far and injected silicone directly in their muscles...
Synthol came around in the 1990s (1996).
Not accounting other "experiments".
Well his weird shaped arms give it away.
No idea what's actually in them but there is something...
This just isn't natural:

In the very late years of his career like the photo you posted, something may have been amiss.  However, early on, I'd say he was just gifted in the bicep department.

[Mr.1derful]

[ritch]

You were talking about the serious trachea injury you suffered in Puerto Rico. Can you take us through that whole experience?

I didn’t realize there was a big problem until later on that night.

I got kicked pretty hard in the throat, but I finished the match. I felt like there was bleeding back there, but the EMTs at the building said there was nothing wrong.

I actually went back to the hotel. My throat was hurting pretty bad, but I just thought it was swelled up, so I tried to eat some ice cream to bring down the swelling back there, but it didn’t help.
Then I tried eating, and I couldn’t eat because it was just so painful for the food to go down.
Then I went back up to my hotel room and stayed there for about an hour or so, and then I felt my lungs starting to get heavy and I was having cold chills. Then I started spitting up blood.

That’s when I called the ambulance, and they rushed me to the hospital, which was an experience.

I’ve been to jail before, and it was like the gates of the jail at the hospital.

There were 20-foot high steel gates and there were armed guards outside the hospital. The opened the door, which creaked, and then they slammed it shut. I walked in there, and there was literally people lined up, bleeding, screaming down the corridors. Nobody was speaking English, and it was kind of freaky.

I was actually at the same hospital where Bruiser Brody died.

So, I was kind of freaked out.

I called a couple of my buddies because I wanted to get out of there. I came in and they took some scans, made me drink some stuff to see what the damage was. That was brutal trying to drink that stuff.

They finally found that I did have a torn trachea. The bad part about it was that it was torn in my chest. They told me I had five hours to live.

The air that was supposed to be going into my lungs was now going into my skin. That turns poisonous and then you die.

I still didn’t really want to believe them. My buddy owns a private jet, and he was going to fly it down. They kind of sensed that I wanted to get out of there.

Thank God that didn’t happen, because my lung would have collapsed and they couldn’t have saved me because the trachea was torn. They put me on some sedatives and kind of calmed me down. I was still fighting it and trying to get out of there, because I didn’t want to have surgery in Puerto Rico. Finally, a Puerto Rican doctor came in and calmed me a little bit, but he still sensed that I wanted to leave so he put me under.

The next time I woke up – I had been in an induced coma for two days because the pain would have been so bad – I felt like I was choking. It felt like I was going to drown because I couldn’t get any air. They pulled the ventilator out of my throat and I woke up.

They told me they cut through my lat, basically split my ribs in half, and then cut through my lung, sewed my trachea up.

Then they put a tube in my lung to drain for two weeks. I just swelled up. I looked brutal, like a 300-pound fat guy. It was the most swelling I ever experienced. I still couldn’t fly, so I had to take a cruise ship home. I went to get on the cruise ship – and no cruise ship. A guy jumped off and committed suicide, so the FBI boarded the ship and had to circle for like 17 hours. So I had to wait an extra day in Puerto Rico, got on a cruise ship, and it took me another week to get home. I took my tour bus back up to where I live, and I tried to recover. I still kind of worried, so I went to a doctor to see if they did everything right, and the doctor shook my hand and said, “You’re lucky to be here. Those doctors saved your life.” That will mess with your mind.

I was kind of messed up for three or four months, knowing that I could have been dead.

Hell of a crazy experience, yikes man....

[OB1]

You were talking about the serious trachea injury you suffered in Puerto Rico. Can you take us through that whole experience?

I didn’t realize there was a big problem until later on that night.

I got kicked pretty hard in the throat, but I finished the match. I felt like there was bleeding back there, but the EMTs at the building said there was nothing wrong.

I actually went back to the hotel. My throat was hurting pretty bad, but I just thought it was swelled up, so I tried to eat some ice cream to bring down the swelling back there, but it didn’t help.
Then I tried eating, and I couldn’t eat because it was just so painful for the food to go down.
Then I went back up to my hotel room and stayed there for about an hour or so, and then I felt my lungs starting to get heavy and I was having cold chills. Then I started spitting up blood.

That’s when I called the ambulance, and they rushed me to the hospital, which was an experience.

I’ve been to jail before, and it was like the gates of the jail at the hospital.

There were 20-foot high steel gates and there were armed guards outside the hospital. The opened the door, which creaked, and then they slammed it shut. I walked in there, and there was literally people lined up, bleeding, screaming down the corridors. Nobody was speaking English, and it was kind of freaky.

I was actually at the same hospital where Bruiser Brody died.

So, I was kind of freaked out.

I called a couple of my buddies because I wanted to get out of there. I came in and they took some scans, made me drink some stuff to see what the damage was. That was brutal trying to drink that stuff.

They finally found that I did have a torn trachea. The bad part about it was that it was torn in my chest. They told me I had five hours to live.

The air that was supposed to be going into my lungs was now going into my skin. That turns poisonous and then you die.

I still didn’t really want to believe them. My buddy owns a private jet, and he was going to fly it down. They kind of sensed that I wanted to get out of there.

Thank God that didn’t happen, because my lung would have collapsed and they couldn’t have saved me because the trachea was torn. They put me on some sedatives and kind of calmed me down. I was still fighting it and trying to get out of there, because I didn’t want to have surgery in Puerto Rico. Finally, a Puerto Rican doctor came in and calmed me a little bit, but he still sensed that I wanted to leave so he put me under.

The next time I woke up – I had been in an induced coma for two days because the pain would have been so bad – I felt like I was choking. It felt like I was going to drown because I couldn’t get any air. They pulled the ventilator out of my throat and I woke up.

They told me they cut through my lat, basically split my ribs in half, and then cut through my lung, sewed my trachea up.

Then they put a tube in my lung to drain for two weeks. I just swelled up. I looked brutal, like a 300-pound fat guy. It was the most swelling I ever experienced. I still couldn’t fly, so I had to take a cruise ship home. I went to get on the cruise ship – and no cruise ship. A guy jumped off and committed suicide, so the FBI boarded the ship and had to circle for like 17 hours. So I had to wait an extra day in Puerto Rico, got on a cruise ship, and it took me another week to get home. I took my tour bus back up to where I live, and I tried to recover. I still kind of worried, so I went to a doctor to see if they did everything right, and the doctor shook my hand and said, “You’re lucky to be here. Those doctors saved your life.” That will mess with your mind.

I was kind of messed up for three or four months, knowing that I could have been dead.

Very intense.
Kind of shocked reading it.

[Svengoolie]

Yeah thanks for posting kwon, never heard that story. Felt pain in my throat just reading it. I stayed lifting weights in middle school when those guys got popular, and Scott and buff bagwell were inspirations for what I wanted to look like.

[Parker]

That's the type of strong man physique that got me into body building, big chunky muscles... Id rather have that over the work of art type physique any day

actaully he had an aesthetic physique. Dieted down, he probably would look like what you dislike.

[Kwon_2]

Yeah thanks for posting kwon, never heard that story. Felt pain in my throat just reading it. I stayed lifting weights in middle school when those guys got popular, and Scott and buff bagwell were inspirations for what I wanted to look like.

And after that unfortunate accident and surgery he was never the same

[thebrink]

Esiclene is around since the 70s and even then BBs went so far and injected silicone directly in their muscles...
Synthol came around in the 1990s (1996).
Not accounting other "experiments".
Well his weird shaped arms give it away.
No idea what's actually in them but there is something...
This just isn't natural:

Scott had the same bicep shape even in his early years with his brother. Wrestlers develop deformed biceps and forearms from years of pulling movements and takedown drills like both steiners, Kurt angle, mark Coleman, mark Kerr notice all same weird bicep shape.

There is a picture of scott with a cast on his left bicep after the tear in the early 90s which is the bicep he always flexed and kissed. He curled 100-120lb dumbells easily when I saw him training at Golds in 2000.

No synthol no pmma or anything else just freak genetics and hard work. You'd have to be dumb to call him a fake in whatever category of life. Guy was seriously an ideal of genetics and athleticism and IMO he'll never be matched by anyone. Not to mention he was a tough mother fucker.

[Svengoolie]

And after that unfortunate accident and surgery he was never the same

Better than death, I suppose. Although I'm sure some would disagree

[Leatherneck]

These days he is all inked up.

[Mr.1derful]

These days he is all inked up.

Yup, looks like a mess now.

[Ronnie Rep]

Scott had the same bicep shape even in his early years with his brother. Wrestlers develop deformed biceps and forearms from years of pulling movements and takedown drills like both steiners, Kurt angle, mark Coleman, mark Kerr notice all same weird bicep shape.

There is a picture of scott with a cast on his left bicep after the tear in the early 90s which is the bicep he always flexed and kissed. He curled 100-120lb dumbells easily when I saw him training at Golds in 2000.

No synthol no pmma or anything else just freak genetics and hard work. You'd have to be dumb to call him a fake in whatever category of life. Guy was seriously an ideal of genetics and athleticism and IMO he'll never be matched by anyone. Not to mention he was a tough mother fucker.

Agree, Scott is unmatched in pro wrestling when it comes to genetics, wrestling ablility, athleticisim, and toughness. One of a kind.

[basil]

Steiner had guns way before that stuff came on the scene.  I suspect he may have had a bicep tear that lead in part to his freaky peak.  He could turn his fist outward and still have this huge peak, which is rare.  

Yes, prob a biceps tear.  I had a partial distal biceps tendon rupture from carrying drywall several years ago, and now i have a similar crazy peak, although on a much smaller scale than Steiner.  Arm looks normal (for a meathead) when relaxed, but a crazy peak pops up when flexed.  I'm just glad there was somewhat of a positive side to the tear.  It was mentally draining for the first few months, until I could use more than 5-10lb dbells.

[TRIX]

[Mr.1derful]

Weren't Steiner and Fagwell buddies off-stage?

7:30 = Friendly respectful pat of Peace by Fluff on Scott
17:40 = Scotts reaction when Buff impersonated Scott

Bagwell is full of himself and full of shit.  His build never came remotely close to Steiner's.  Bagwell is delusional.

[Nether Animal]

Bagwell is full of himself and full of shit.  His build never came remotely close to Steiner's.  Bagwell is delusional.

Bagwell is winning now physique wise though, even after two neck surgeries. He looks basically the same as '01.

[Mr.1derful]

Bagwell is winning now physique wise though, even after two neck surgeries. He looks basically the same as '01.

I'll give him that.

[Submissionfytr]

Always admired and respected pro wrestlers, and WOW at 6:27 of the above video is most impressive arm pose I've ever seen  Better than Dorian, Arnold or Ronnie IMO, spectacular...

[jude2]

Dude was a legit badass for sure.

QFT.