“The Dog-Faced Gremlin” Rick Steiner won tag team championship gold everywhere in the world alongside his brother because the Steiner Brothers, and was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame by his son, former “WWE NXT” Champion and Intercontinental title holder Bron Breakker back in 2022 after his legendary profession. After making a reputation for himself in amateur wrestling on the University of Michigan, Steiner went on to compete within the skilled wrestling ring in 1989. He and his brother Scott wrestled for promotions corresponding to Recent Japan Pro-Wrestling and ECW, and most famously, WCW and the then-WWF.
The Steiner Brothers are considered considered one of the best tag teams in wrestling history after winning a complete of 12 tag team championships across the assorted promotions where they worked. Steiner’s final match got here in September 2019 for Tokyo Championship Wrestling, a tag team victory where he partnered with Kazushi Miyamoto. He had been competing on the independent circuit after being released from TNA Wrestling in 2008, where he had been teaming alongside his brother once more before they were forced to separate.
Steiner made his first WWE appearance since 1994 when he joined his son at NXT Recent Yr’s Evil in 2022 to have fun with him after Breakker won the NXT Championship. Following his Hall of Fame honors, Steiner was even involved in a brief storyline alongside his son. On an April episode of “NXT,” Steiner was kidnapped by The Schism’s Joe Gacy and Harland and locked inside a cage.
Breakker would go on to feud with Gacy, but his father never stepped within the ring alongside him for a match. The “NXT” kidnapping was Steiner’s final appearance as of this writing in WWE, so what’s he as much as as of late?
Profession in Real Estate
Now that Steiner’s hung up his boots and doesn’t look like all in favour of being an on-screen character involved in his son’s WWE run, he’s specializing in his much quieter real estate profession. He got his license back in 1995, just before he returned to WCW, but didn’t begin selling until mid-2004. He currently is with Rick Steiner and Associates at Atlanta Communities Real Estate Brokerage, which serves the metropolitan Atlanta area, where he’s lived along with his wife for the last 28 years. In response to his Zillow profile, loaded with information for potential homebuyers in the realm, Steiner makes a speciality of residential homes, land and lake properties, and more.
As of this writing, in response to Zillow, Steiner is selling 28 properties in the realm, including a $2 million dollar home in Woodstock, Georgia. Zillow has him listed as the vendor of 177 total properties, which often range from $60K-$1.2 million in price.
Steiner can be a member of the Cherokee County School Board. Steiner attempted to enter the Republican primary in 2006, but was disqualified on account of using his in-ring name of Steiner, slightly than his legal name, Robert Rechsteiner. When he attempted to run again, he did not get 4,500 signatures on a petition to permit him to achieve this. He nevertheless ran unopposed as a write-in candidate in November 2006 and that is when he won his seat on the board. Steiner was still a faculty board member as of January 2025 and his term ends next 12 months.
WrestleCon Controversy
The last time Steiner was in wrestling headlines wasn’t for the short storyline with Breakker in “NXT” or his Hall of Fame induction, but slightly a more controversial reason. In March 2023, Impact wrestler Gisele Shaw accused Steiner in a social media post of yelling transphobic comments at her and a homophobic slur at one other wrestler at WrestleCon. Shaw said that she was walking to her table on the convention when she heard someone call her “a person,” “filth,” and more after telling her to “get the f*** away from here.” Shaw said she later discovered the transphobic tirade got here from Steiner. When she confronted him, he continued to yell derogatory things at her.
Steiner was banned from the remainder of WrestleCon’s events for that 12 months. Steiner was welcomed back to WrestleCon after he reached out to make amends following the incident. The convention’s owner, Michael Bochicchio, said that despite not being publicized, Steiner “immediately apologized” to members of the staff and fellow wrestlers. He said a few of those in Impact Wrestling met with Steiner at a non-public, mediated event, but Shaw selected to not attend the apology.
