Scott Steiner is not a fan of Hulk Hogan.
Scott Steiner and Hulk Hogan worked together throughout their respective careers, most notably during their time in WCW as members of the New World Order.
According to Steiner, Hogan made the call to have Steiner lose his first match after he turned heel in 1998.
Asked by Chris Van Vliet on Insight why Hogan would make that call, Steiner replied, "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 to eight 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."
Steiner continued, "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. Then of course the one time he tried to put me in jail. I was facing serious time. I could have been in jail for 15 years."
Asked about Hogan trying to put him in jail, Steiner recalled, "Well, I found out the bullsh*t he was doing in TNA. So when I left, I let it be known that the next time I see him I would slap the sh*t out of him. But I hadn’t seen him for like a year, then I had met his wife backstage, it was in San Jose for the WrestleMania. It was this platinum blond that was looking at me. But finally, I kind of remember meeting [her]. I was still wasn't sure. So went up to her and said, 'Are you Hulk Hogan's wife?' And she said, Yeah. At that point he was going to induct Savage into the Hall of Fame, which was bullsh*t. So I told her that. 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. I said that, 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."
Hogan inducted Randy Savage into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2015.
The Steiners went into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2021.
