[3][5] In addition to his professional arm wrestling career, Norton also worked as a bodyguard for Prince during the musician's 1999[7] and Purple Rain Tours.
[4] Despite Norton's inexperience, Verne Gagne decided to debut him before he was totally finished with his training, putting him on television as a regular performer for the American Wrestling Association in 1989.
[1][4] He challenged then World Champions Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair and Larry Zbyszko to a televised arm wrestling match.
Norton appeared at both joint NJPW/World Championship Wrestling Starrcade in Egg Dome shows, giving him exposure to WCW executives.
[9][10] The working agreement between NJPW and WCW meant that The Steiner Brothers would tour Japan on a regular basis, often wrestling against Scott Norton alongside a variety of partners.
[8] While holding the title, the Jurassic Powers successfully defended against teams such as Keiji Mutoh and Hiroshi Hase,[12] The Nasty Boys,[12] Takayuki Iizuka and Akira Nogami,[13] Jake "The Snake" Roberts and Brutus Beefcake,[14] Masa Saito and Manabu Nakanishi and The Barbarian and Haku in non-title competition.
After the match, the two shook hands and Norton explained to announcer Gene Okerlund that he felt that they would make a formidable tag team because of their similar wrestling styles.
Norton and Shinya Hashimoto teamed up and won the Super Grade Tag League in 1996 after beating Keiji Mutoh and Rick Steiner in the finals.
[28] In late 1996, Norton joined the New World Order (nWo), which gave his WCW career some direction after the breakup of Fire and Ice.
[32] Norton soon began playing a smaller role in WCW, becoming part of the nWo "B-Team", which often placed him in mid-lower card matches; although he would continue to squash jobbers frequently in singles competition.
He left WCW completely in 1999 after losing a match against Goldberg on the September 30 episode of Thunder and began focusing his efforts on NJPW, where he was part of Masahiro Chono's Team 2000.
On March 17, 2001, Norton defeated Kensuke Sasaki in Nagoya, Japan to capture the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship a second time.
[21] In mid-2006, Norton started his own independent promotion, Wild West Championship Wrestling,[35] based in the southwest of United States, where he acted as both a booker and wrestler until its closure later that year.
[38] Norton returned to NJPW on January 4, 2017, at Wrestle Kingdom 11 in Tokyo Dome, taking part in the New Japan Rumble, from which he was eliminated by Michael Elgin.
[39] The following day, Norton teamed with Cheeseburger and former nWo Japan stablemates Hiro Saito, Hiroyoshi Tenzan and Satoshi Kojima in a ten-man tag team, where they defeated Bullet Club (Bad Luck Fale, Bone Soldier, Kenny Omega, Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa).
On April 05, 2022, Norton was announced on NJPW's official X account, that he would be joining The Good Brothers (Karl Anderson and Luke Gallows), Hikuleo, El Phantasmo and Chris Bey as an official member of Bullet Club for one night only in a 12 man Tag Team Match vs United Empire's Great-O-Khan, Jeff Cobb, TJP, Aaron Henare and Aussie Open (Kyle Fletcher and Mark Davis) at Windy City Riot on April 16, which resulted in a losing effort.
Growing up in Minnesota, Norton became friends with a number of future fellow professional wrestlers, including Road Warrior Hawk, Curt Hennig, Rick Rude, John Nord and Wayne Bloom.