This feud has been going on for quite some time now and if you look back through each of the men’s Twitter accounts at a glance it would appear that they are all as bad as each other. We of course don’t know how deep the rivalry goes and can only see what each of them wants us to see.
With the filming of the first season of Ring Ka King over, which is of course a subsidiary of TNA, we haven’t seen Steiner on our screens for a while. His contract with TNA has reportedly come to an end and his profile has been removed from the Impact Wrestling website. Has he been fired? Is this whole scenario for real or just a work? What do you think?
Although this has been going on a long time, just this month alone we have seen plenty of jibes thrown about the Twittersphere. Here I will recap what each of them has said on the topic throughout May 2012:
Scott
Steiner
Right at the start of the month Big Poppa Pump told
fans to chant “609” when Garret Bischoff is in the ring. It was later revealed
that 609 referred to the docket number 1:19-CR-609 which was used when Eric testified
under oath at a trial. Steiner went on the say that instead of getting rid of
problems (Hogan and Bischoff), TNA keep paying them and try to save money
elsewhere. Giving an example of ways in which TNA are saving money, Steiner
said that “They no longer fly Taz and Tenay in for the tapings, they do voice
overs in Nashville.” He said that Eric
will probably try and replace one or both of them saying that he’s saving the
company money.
On May 2nd Steiner said that he tweeted three
weeks ago to say that Jeremy Borash was the “other guy” that “Bitchoff” as he
calls Bischoff laid in to on social media. We of course, in the UK, saw Borash
call Eric out on this on Impact Wrestling’s very first Open Fight Night on
April 29th. Steiner said that that segment came about as Bischoff
realised that he had “heat” because a lot of people defended JB and the
situation needed to be defused, and incorporating it in to the show would have
been a way to do that.
Steiner spoke about the ending to Open Fight Night
and said that “609Garrett came out at the end of show to save the day…wtf
bullshit” as we saw him induct Eric in to the ‘Shed of Shame’. Backing up what
JB had said in the ring Steiner said “The thing is Borash has done more for TNA
than Bitchoff has, and he’s been there since the beginning, and the last time I
checked all Bitchoff does is kill the ratings”.
Talking about Garett getting a push in to the
wrestling world by his father, Steiner said that as bad as that is the original
plan was much worse and it’s a good job that Hogan’s son, Nick, quit as both he
and Garett were going to “wrestling camp” at the same time and the fans would
have had to “suffer with these two assholes nepotism’s” as they pushed their “non-athletic”
sons to the top. Steiner predicts that Garett’s career
will be over now that
Eric has gone because people will hold his Father’s behaviour against him.
According to Steiner, Hogan sounds like an idiot
each time he talks to the media without a script and spoke about how the
General Manager wants to give more power to the fans and get them more involved
but can’t say anymore on it right now. Steiner slammed TNA and Spike TV
officials saying that “no other business in the world would allow two assholes
to come into a company, drive it to the lowest ratings EVER, continue the low
ratings for 2 and a half years, cut down most employees in the media and still
have a job.”
Acknowledging the importance of fans Steiner said
that there is nobody more important and there would be no wrestling without the
fans. He said that the ratings show that fans are choosing not to be involved
in what Bischoff and Hogan brought to TNA by using their power to change the
channel.
Steiner feels that the new brand concept which Hogan
has mentioned a lot lately will be a fraud just like changing TNA to Impact Wrestling
where "wrestling matters" was. He said that was “a crock of shit because
nothing changed, this is nothing but smoke.”
Moving on, Steiner spoke about Orlando Jordan and
quickly stated that he has nothing against gay people. He felt that introducing
the wrestler to the wrestling audience as the first “openly gay” athlete in the
sport wasn’t a wise move. Steiner told how the company were filming at Universal
Studios, where of course you would expect to see that the fans were families
with children, and the segments which they did with Orlando in front of the
live crowd were of him lusting over another wrestler in a storyline. Steiner
said that some of the families were appalled and left. Because of this
Orlando’s future segments were recorded backstage away from the live crowd.
Steiner said that he spoke to Sting in the Impact Zone
one day, and they were both wondering what was going on around them. He said
that Sting told him that he was going to say something about it and could no
longer watch the show. Steiner probed further and found out that Hogan had apparently
said that Orlando could be the World Champion during production meetings.
Steiner said that he didn’t understand Hogan’s reasoning until Linda (Hogan’s
ex-wife) allegedly said that Hogan was gay. Sting was apparently annoyed at the
hypocrisy of it all as TNA would hold chapel each Sunday before a Pay per View.
Apparently it’s what Hogan would have wanted and Bischoff was there to back him
up saying that controversy creates cash. Steiner disagrees and said that they need
to get a grip.
Hogan had another idea which was for fans to video
wrestlers “TMZ style” and send them in to him. Steiner said that Hogan is an
idiot for suggesting that idea because he “doesn’t realise not everybody is a
camera whore like himself and don’t need the constant attention”. Steiner
reckoned that he had a better idea and said that he should have somebody video
him giving his wife an excuse as to why he is “leaving her to go do gay porn”.
Mocking Hogan’s whole being of Hulkamania, Steiner said “Homomania running
wild”.
We will hear from Eric Bischoff later as we take a
look at his Tweets, but it would seem that he Tweeted something about Steiner
around May 3rd as Steiner said “There you are you little bitch. I’ve
tweeting for 4 weeks now and you decide to respond when I tweeted about being
at a Shoney’s to Go Grand Opening”. Shoney’s is an American restaurant for
those of you who don’t know. Steiner had said that he was there on the 3rd
of May and that they have awesome food. Steiner continued to talk to
Bischoff and said that he is playing poker with him and has already told him
what his hand is along with the significance of 609 and said that “the Shoney’s
tweet brought you out of your hole”.
Referencing one of the tweets from Bischoff aimed at
him Steiner said “first off if you want to call anybody a drug abuser look no
further than your son. 609Garrett was a 140lb non-athletic pussy in high
school, but as everybody can see he can take everything under the sun but it
hasn’t improved his athletic ability. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.”
Going back to talk about Shoney’s Steiner said that
him being there wasn’t a paid appearance; he was there on behalf of his friend
of 18 years who purchased the Shoney’s brand 6 years ago for around $300
million. Steiner said that the restaurant is no longer a greasy fast food joint
as Bischoff had suggested and said that he would have known this if he ever
went to the TNA offices as the Shoney’s corporate offices are also in Nashville.
Steiner said that Bischoff likes to brag that he’s too high class and makes too
much money to eat at a place like that and said “well the number 609 suggests
you ain’t high class at all”.
Steiner must have had a vast amount of tweets asking
him what the significance of 609 is and why they should chant it at Garett as
he decided to provide an explanation. He said that “609 is part of a larger
number that Eric owns and now Garrett is going to have to live with. The full
sequence is 1:19-CR-609 and it represents Bitchoff’s docket number when he
testified under oath in Atlanta's Gold Club trial.” Steiner teased that he
would reveal more about Bischoff’s exact testimony later saying “it is very
revealing and humorous because it shows what a weasel he is.” He also said that
he will post the information on his website.
Steiner told Bischoff that he needs to worry about
the crowds that TNA are drawing in since only 2,500 people were at Lockdown in
Nashville, the home base of TNA “and a lot of those were freebees”. Big Poppa
Pump said that “Bitchoff” cannot deny anything which he has tweeted about because
it is all apparently true. He said that Bischoff is trying to change the focus
by saying that he is too old, slow and boring. Steiner told him to check out
the Ring Ka King footage and ask any wrestler that it wasn’t that he didn’t
want to move over for the younger guys, all he did was try to elevate guys and
pass the torch. Saying “better yet, look at the tape”, Steiner said “I’m not a
mark like Hogan and have to have creative control because people don’t care who
wins or loses, they want to be entertained.” He said that Hogan is living in
his fantasy world and actually believes he’s winning.
Steiner continued to talk to Bischoff and said that
he and Hogan are about to find out that he is the last guy that they should
have messed with. He said that they are going to find out that payback is a
bitch, both mentally and physically as he said “right now I’m FF'n with your
mind and I will see you both again and you will see how ruthless I can be. Believe
that.”
In the next flurry of tweets, Steiner spoke about
Impact Wrestling saying that low rated shows are still being booked. He said
that 9-10 segments were wasted on Bischoff “a guy who nobody cares about and is
no longer on the show” and Alex Silva, “the indy wrestler that nobody cares about
and has been on the show one time”; it was a waste of valuable air time. The Gut
Check segments were brutal and hard to watch according to Steiner and “Hogan
looked like an idiot in a segment with Anderson”. He said that it is hard to
believe that 3 people (Hogan, Bischoff and Flair presumably) who claim to be so
clever can book a show that bad. He wants to know where their accountability
is.
Talking about Flair saying during a show that Hogan
keeps playing with him, Steiner deemed the 3 men which he spoke of earlier
“clueless” after saying that he tweeted for weeks about Hogan’s ex-wife supposedly
saying the General Manager is gay. He said that Flair’s comment made the guys
in the back pop.
Steiner continued to analyse the shows and said that
Bischoff had 4-5 segments about him in another show and Hogan was all over it.
Pritchard even had a couple segments. He wants to know the reason why saying
that the “three marks” don’t wrestle at house shows, TV tapings or PPV’s. He
finds it unbelievable that they booked themselves on 12-13 segments.
Open Fight Night “did a horrible rating” according
to Steiner “and was supposed to be Bitchoff’s last show” so he want’s
justification as to why the clip of Bischoff being thrown in to the Portaloo
was shown at the start of another show. He said once more that nobody cares
about Bischoff yet he keeps booking himself on the show and that the “assholes
are so out of touch and don’t have a clue”.
On May 9th he questioned whether anybody
was really surprised that Bischoff had said in an interview that Big Poppa Pump
needed to step aside for the younger guys and said that Pritchard, Hogan and
Bischoff booked themselves in 12-13 segments and they are 10 years older than he
is. He also said that Bischoff made a “pretty stupid statement” when he
apparently also said in an interview that Steiner is going through a mid-life
crisis and is a drug abuser as his business partner, Hogan, testified under
oath that he did steroids and has recently done a sex video “and he’s over 60”.
A quick Google search showed that Hogan was born in August 1953 and would
therefore be 58 years old unless his ‘character’ is younger than he actually
is. Steiner said that Bischoff is stupid and cannot deny that what he has been
saying and so says “stupid shit” and ends up burying himself and Hogan.
Steiner said that he didn’t have a chance to post “609Bitchoff’s”
testimony any sooner and as he’s been getting a lot of tweets about it before
going on to explain what it is about. As mentioned earlier 609 is the last
sequence in Bischoff’s docket number 1:19-CR-609. Steiner said that Bischoff testified
under oath that “he and his wife go to the Gold Club and pick up a stripper and
take her to a hotel. He watches his wife have lesbian sex with the stripper and
then he joins them.” Steiner said that you can see what a weasel Bischoff is
and the best part from reading his testimony is that you find out “the only way
he gets caught is he gave the stripper a bullshit tip, and she gets pissed,
goes back to the Gold Club (and) tells her boss what he tipped her. He then
goes into the register and gives her a bigger tip...BUSTED”.
Steiner said that the FBI were watching all
transactions and if Bischoff would have just given the stripper a good tip in
the first place, her boss would have had no need to go in to the register. He
said that it “must drive you nuts at night, knowing that if you weren’t such a
cheap-ass you could have avoided all this embarrassment” especially as he’s
always bragging about how much money he has.
Mocking Hogan’s idea of fans recording wrestlers
again, Steiner asked that Eric have a fan video him as he explains himself to
Garett and his daughter as he thinks that it’s “just the fan participation that
Hogan was talking about”.
Steiner said that he left TNA and one of the reasons
behind him leaving was that he didn’t want to see Bischoff run TNA in to the ground
as he felt that he did with WCW and told us that he is just getting started as
he signed off for the day with “609 save TNA”.
The next day Steiner said that during an interview Hogan
said that he must be unhappy in his life. Steiner said that he is very happy in
his life and said that he is “not the one who went on Larry King crying like a
bitch and saying that you put a gun in your mouth and was going to pull the
trigger”. He told Hogan to stop lying and went on to say that the “three
assholes” write the show and decide who’s on it.
He spoke about James Storm and said that the stuff
with him it nonsense too saying “Storm and I talked over (the) match and the
finish which I didn’t change. We both went to get in gear, and as I was
changing I was told I wasn’t in the match anymore.” He said that he asked Storm
about what had happened but didn’t know. He `said that Storm would tell us the
same if he were asked about it so we don’t have to take his word on it.
Continuing his tirade against Hogan, Steiner said
that Hogan disrespects the business and everybody in TNA yet he thinks it is
weird that Steiner wants to knock him unconscious before telling Hogan that his
day is coming.
“Pritchard is going to use Open Fight Night to bring
in somebody else’s son” according to Steiner and he will let us know when he sees
him. Steiner asked fans to remember to change channel and wait five minutes
before changing back when they see Hogan or Bischoff as “if you fans use your
power we can save TNA. The Nielson ratings system monitors every show on TV and
can’t be ignored”. I personally will not be switching over but please do not
blame me if TNA falls off the air.
There was a gap in Steiner’s tweets from May 11th
until today (May 16th) when he explained why he has been absent. He
apparently received a letter from a lawyer who is representing Hogan and
Bischoff which, in short, says that they take his tweets seriously and “if
threats continue they will take to law enforcement”.
Steiner said “Really Hogan my tweets scare you? I’ve
said worse in interviews on TV LOL.” He went on to thank Hogan saying “your
actions speak louder than any words that I could have spoken. Sorry for scaring
you, maybe I will challenge you to a game of checkers.”
The story so far from Steiner ends with one more
statement. He said “Just when you didn’t think it could get any worse in TNA, it
has, and guys are pissed because Hogan has brought in his no talent daughter.”
Steiner also finds this unbelievable and said that he was putting it mildly
when he said that “guys are pissed”.
Eric
Bischoff
The first tweet from Bischoff in May in relation to
this post was on May 3rd and said “@ScottSteiner 50+ year old man
pitching greasy fried chicken in Buford and wrestling indys in front of 250
fans...bitter?” it was this tweet that prompted Steiner to say that Bischoff
has come out of his hole after he had been tweeting him for four weeks.
Bischoff went on to retweet somebody who had replied to his tweet. The tweet
said “Shane Douglas? Oh no wait...Scott Steiner. Same thing.”
Bischoff took another dig at Steiner as he responded
to a follower who had said “You tell 'em, Easy E! He cried for 2 hours last
night” by saying “It’s hard for some guys to move over and let the younger
talent rise. Irony? One of Scott’s bitches in his 20's and 30's”.
On the same day Bischoff said that he was sitting in
Detroit airport thinking about growing up there and the old neighbourhood but
he still managed to take the time to retweet people who had said that Steiner
is bitter and would be back in the company tomorrow if he were called and that
he must have a sad life as he tweets an awful lot about Bischoff and Hogan.
One person had a hashtag of #steriodjunkie at the
end of their tweet. Keeping with the drug theme, Bischoff retweeted another
follower who said to Steiner “Your tweets make as much sense as your promos did…In
other words you're a babbling, old, drug abusing fool.” The retweet’s continued
and Bischoff sarcastically told followers to go easy on Steiner saying to one
person that “he (Steiner) did well at the end for being a midlife crisis with a
bad wheel.” The majority of the tweets that Bischoff chose to retweet contained
references to the claims that Steiner has used drugs with one saying “it would
appear that Scott Steiner has his head in his ass, as well as a needle.”
Bischoff also responded to tweeters who were on
Steiner’s side. One had said that to him “Funny that most of your comments
attack Steiner's age, you're 56”. Bischoff said “But I am far from trying to
"hold on to my spot" as an in-ring performer. Read, listen, learn.
There's hope for you.” The next day another Steiner fan said Steiner does not
need TNA as “he is working for #RingKaKing where they actually have an
AUDIENCE! Hogan is an ASS!” Bischoff responded by saying “This one defines the
collective intelligence of the IWC (Internet Wrestling Community). Do you know
Scotty Riggs?”
After responding to the above tweet Bischoff took
the day off from retweeting Steiner haters and just had one jibe of his own
saying “Seriously, Shane Douglas and Steiner should tour comedy clubs together.
Steiner could try and read a paragraph from a children's book and Douglas could
talk about how to produce a live event! Comedy gold like "Grumpy Old
Men"”. Bischoff was looking forward
to a great weekend as he was heading to Vegas for meetings on the Friday and for
some rest and recuperation.
Other than a tweet on May 9th to tell
everybody that he had just got home from four days in Vegas, a video of Garett
vs. Turkeys on the 13th and a tweet today about The Devils Ride
which he says will be a great episode we heard no more from Bischoff about
Steiner.
Hulk
Hogan
The Hulkster said on Impact Wrestling that he was
going to focus on being a good General Manager and on the fans and what they
want from the company. Looking at his Twitter page and the multitude of tweets
there, he appears to have been true to his word and has stayed out of ‘drama’ up
until today. Having not seen the interviews which Steiner spoke about in his
tweets I cannot comment on what has been said outside of the social platform
being looked at here.
Hogan has been busy retweeting and responding to fans
and on May 12th said “Goodmorning Hulkamaniacs. You’re the ones that
have kept the dream alive; for that I will always thank you HH”. Having looked
at Bischoff’s profile Hogan’s Twitter name had been mentioned in some of the
tweets there and so he could have easily retweeted them too if he had wanted as
he clearly reads some, if not all, of his @ mentions.
Steiner’s tweets from earlier today clearly pushed
Hogan over the edge as he took to Twitter too. Although he never mentioned
Steiner’s name is was obvious to followers of both wrestlers who he was talking
about as he said “Tried to be cool, not only a clown but also a liar. Those
weren't my lawyers they were TNA lawyers. Well I guess it's time to call my
guys in. I really hope he saved his money or is making tons from the
independents he's working because it's gonna get expensive. Maybe he's smart enough
to at least figure it out when it starts getting real. What a shame, what a
waste of a great talent, but you can't tell an idiot they’re an idiot. It's
really sad when you really thought someone was really cool. HH”.
One fan said “he talked about your little girl...I
figured that would be the breaking point #WhatChaGonnaDO Brother” and others
offered their support whilst some people were unsure who he was talking about.
Hogan saying “maybe he is smart enough to at least
figure it out when it starts getting real” could indicate that the feud was
just a storyline but now that Steiner has disrespected both of his children
things have now got personal. Who knows? We’re often told, and even in
wrestling star’s autobiographies I have read that we should not believe
everything that we hear or see in wrestling, no matter how believable it is,
how many people repeat it, or how often it is repeated.
If this is a work then it is a dangerous one in my
opinion as the language used and information being divulged is damaging.
Steiner clearly has a lot to say for himself on Twitter and spoke about the
story with Orlando Jordan saying that it wasn’t suitable for families. A lot of
children use Twitter, whether it is right or wrong, to follow their idols
including him and his language is, shall we say, colourful. Bischoff seems to
have sneers at whoever he feels like mentioning at the time but has clearly played
a part in the argument.
Either way, work or not, the men appear to be
playing a dangerous game. Their tweets have encouraged fans to troll wrestlers
and each other. What are your views?
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