10-24-2002, 11:52 PM
Quote:WWE has announced on the company website that they have signed Scott Steiner to wrestle for the promotion. On the splash page of the site, they wrote the following:Credit: 1wrestling.com
Steiner signs with WWE
World Wrestling Entertainment is happy to announce it has signed Big Poppa Pump Scott Steiner.
As we have been reporting for weeks now, despite denials from head of talent relations Jim Ross, the company has been in discussions with Steiner's representatives for quite some time now. From what sources tell 1Wrestling.com, negotiations intensified over the last week or two, leading to the deal announced today. It will be interesting to see how Ross handles the story in the Ross Report tomorrow. Again, as we have stated in the past on the site, WWE has been in negotiations with Steiner for some time now, despite public denials to the contrary.
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Quote:A number of people I spoke with in WWE are surprised that the company gave away the signing of Scott Steiner on their website instead of trying to use it to get a surprise pop out of their fans on a TV broadcast. There is a feeling among some company employees that the braintrust of the company felt it was more important to get people talking by releasing news of the signing than to use it to pop TV viewers when he debuted. There is also a feeling among some that in the days of the internet, it's almost impossible to keep a secret and that they may as well be the one to announce it.
As it stands right now, it appears that Steiner will go where he is desperately needed, to the Raw brand. I am not sure how he will be used at first, but it would seem to make sense that they keep him away from Triple H and build a long term program between the two, perhaps pairing them off at WrestleMania.
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