Scott Steiner can't speak to rumors that he was considered to win the 1993 WWE Royal Rumble, but he did decline to wrestle his brother, Rick Steiner, as part of another Rumble pitch.
Bruce Prichard once revealed that he and Pat Patterson considered pitching Scott Steiner as the 1993 WWE Royal Rumble winner. During a recent interview with Shakiel Mahjouri, Steiner addressed the rumor, saying that he knows it's something Prichard has said on his podcast, but he couldn't speak to hearing that himself at the time.
He could, however, recall turning down a pitch for him to wrestle his brother, Rick Steiner, in a Royal Rumble to drive home the "every man for himself" stipulation.
"I mean, I have heard that, especially with Bruce Prichard had said something like that on his podcast that I think about making me a world champion, but there was a thing where, in the Royal Rumble, they wanted us to go which against each other. At the time, one of the reasons why I got into wrestling was to wrestle with my brother, prove that we're the best brothers, and wrestle the best tag teams in the world. So, I had no interest whatsoever to be a World Champion. The timing wasn't right," he said.
The only Royal Rumble that the Steiner Brothers were a part of was the 1994 Royal Rumble. They eventually faced each other when Scott turned on Rick to join the nWo in 1998. However, they wouldn't be enemies for long.
They entered the WWE Hall of Fame as a tag team in 2022. Learn more here.
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