The topic of this “Moves of Doom Mondays” is one-half of one of the greatest tag teams and brother duos: The Steiners. Oh yeah, he’s a former World Champion as well! Let’s get into Scott Steiner!
Steiner-Line
When it comes to moves that should be finishers, there are two things you can’t go wrong with: anything that damages the head and neck and strikes to the head or neck.
All of Scott Steiner’s moves on this list inflict head and neck damage and some are even thrown in the back for good measure!
The Steiner-Line is just a brick-wall lariat. He might run with it but usually, it’s him taking someone’s head off their shoulders with a swing of his arm.
Honestly, sometimes it looks like a forearm smash with how fast he throws it—especially on someone coming off the ropes.
DOOM Scale: 3.75 out of 5
Frankensteiner
This was one of Steiner’s sauce moves. While we know a frankensteiner as being more of a flashier move thanks to the cruiserweights and luchadors, when Scott Steiner did it, this thing could finish a match. It was just something about the no-frills approach and execution of a frill-filled move that made the Frankensteiner so powerful.
DOOM Scale: 3 out of 5
Belly-to-Belly Suplex
Like the Steiner-Line, Scott’s Belly-to-Belly Suplex was one of his setup moves. With that being said, he ended up becoming known for his belly-to-belly suplexes. Personally, I like the version with the spin/reposition into the suplex but his overhead belly-to-belly suplexes just come off as more devastating!
Either variation ends with this spin-shaking slam but in his prime form, Steiner’s suplexes landed like bedrock. It was like suplexing a stone.
DOOM Scale: 3 out of 5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FYi89sixRE
Steiner Screw Driver
Now, this move is the sauce. This is the move you wanted to see from Scott Steiner. The Steiner Screw Driver starts from your standard vertical suplex position before the opponent is turned and dropped head-first into a driver.
It’s basically a head-spike version of Kenta Kobashi’s Orange Crush move.
For the period that he used it, the SSD was more of a Japan-only move or an MDK (murder, death, kill) move in All Japan. It’s a super finisher which would be another move today. You rarely got to see this on U.S television.
For a brief time in WCW, it was used to finish matches before going back to the Super Steiner Drop.
As far as destructiveness, most of Scott Steiner’s moves are done with the maximum destruction but as a fan of piledrivers and other neck-targeting moves, I’m giving this one the whole damn hog.
DOOM Scale: 5 out of 5
Steiner Recliner
While the focus is on prime, 80s-early 90s Scott Steiner, his Steiner Recliner was a strong submission finisher regardless of the period. Although, in his prime, Scott did a lot more destruction to the neck and back than when began to rely on the Steiner Line-Belly-to-Belly-Steiner Recliner trifecta in the late 90s.
DOOM Scale: 3.5 out of 5
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