Scott Steiner

There was a lot of stuff going on with Scott at that point. It's not as simple as the WCW thing where Scott didn't want to break up the team. The Steiners wanted to continue working for New Japan and that wasn't going to happen while they were with the WWF, and there was disputes over money going on I think. I'll have to dig up the WON from that time but basically it was going to take a lot more than just giving Scott a massive singles push in order to keep the team around. Here's a quick quote from the March 28 1994 issue:

"Don't know what the status of the Steiners is other than they don't appear to be part of any current plans, but are under contract until mid-December. They were sent to Memphis by WWF which shows the relationship still exists, although the primary focus for the Steiners is clearly their New Japan dates. Jacques Rougeau did an interview over the weekend talking about how they had run the Steiners out of the WWF."

Also, the thing is also that you can't just take Scott and give him Luger's spot. Look at how long it took WCW to find a character that worked for him when they finally did split him off as a single — he turned heel in 1998 and didn't win the World title until 2000. By 93 it was becoming obvious that Scott was injury-prone and not the kind of person you'd want to take a shot with the big belt at without any insurance or past history as a top guy. Do I think that it might have worked? Yeah, of course. But I can totally understand why they didn't.