6 WWE Superstars who were told to lose weight

#3 Former WWE Superstar The Blue Meanie

The Blue Meanie in WWE (left); Blue Boy and Jasmin St. Claire in ECW (right)

Speaking to Fightful’s Sean Ross Sapp in 2020, The Blue Meanie reminisced about the time that he received a message on his answering machine from then-WWE Superstar Al Snow following an independent show in Pittsburgh in 1998.

Snow asked him whether he would be interested in joining WWE, to which the ECW star instantly replied, “Yeah!” before Snow had even finished his sentence.

Within two hours, Bruce Prichard called Meanie and it did not take long for a WWE deal to come to fruition.

The veteran wrestler also told Sapp that he was encouraged to lose weight during his initial one-year run in WWE, so he drastically altered his diet and ended up dropping 160 lbs in a short space of time.

“When I was with WWE they had asked me to lose weight. So, I went and lost 160 pounds. And I was seeing Headbanger Mosh’s brother John, who’s a nutritionist. Through him I lost 160 pounds in a couple of months.”

When Meanie returned to ECW after his spell with WWE, he debuted a new character – Blue Boy (w/Jasmin St. Claire) – who made fun of people for being ugly and overweight.