10 Most Outrageous Pro Wrestling Entrances
Not every pro wrestling entrance is a walk to the ring
4. Scott Steiner - WCW Nitro
While early 1990s WCW was full of rubbish ideas, the company in 2000 was full of positively unsafe ones. Like letting Scott Steiner, himself acting a bit like a wild animal at the time, make his entrance for the October 23 episode of Nitro with an actual tiger.
As Tony Schiavone mentioned on commentary, the big cat really didn’t want to be there. Which was bad news, since it was accompanied by a sole handler and a rather flimsy-looking leash.
So…why did Big Poppa Pump randomly come to the ring with a tiger that one time with no explanation? Besides it being, you know, really cool and stuff?
According to the man himself, the feline and his trainer once visited a WCW house show and Steiner became besotted with the animal. He asked WCW management if he could do the entrance and, since everyone backstage was genuinely terrified of him, they didn’t say ‘no’.
Steiner later revealed that a zebra-print-wearing Rey Mysterio almost became the tiger’s dinner when he crouched down to the animal’s eye level, freaking out its handler.
