Scott Steiner is best known for his time in WCW, though he'd later sign with both WWE and TNA. Big Poppa Pump's accolades are many, and his nephew Bron Breakker, is the current WWE Intercontinental Champion.
It's no secret that Steiner clashed with Hulk Hogan in WCW, though their apparent disdain for each other carried on in the years that followed (and may even explain why Steiner isn't in the WWE Hall of Fame).
Talking to Chris Van Vliet, the pro wrestling icon addressed his issues with Hogan head-on...and definitely didn't hold back.
"That was a real thing back then the older guys keeping the younger guys down [in WCW]. When I said that I got beat in my first match after turning heel, the call was made by Hulk Hogan to have me beat," Steiner explained. "So the reason I knew that because somebody that was in the vicinity of talking to him."
"So it might piss me off, but you can overcome wins and losses. People can see your personality and what you do on camera. Wins and losses, you can overcome them. But when another wrestler decides he's going to decide who wins, it is bullsh*t."
Asked why he thinks Hogan did that, Steiner said, "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."
"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," he added.
Steiner then alluded to Hogan nearly landing him behind bars. It turns out he'd threatened to "slap the sh*t" out of the Hulkster and, in a chance meeting with Hogan's now ex-wife, told her that her husband inducting Randy Savage into the WWE Hall of Fame was "bullsh*t."
"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."
You can watch the full interview with Steiner in the player below.