WWE News: Nia Jax calls out indie wrestler/YouTuber

What’s the story?

Nia Jax has taken to social media so as to call out a YouTube wrestling personality and indie wrestler who goes by the name ‘Grim’.

Apparently, Grim of Grim’s Toy Show Wrestling, mouthed body-shaming phrases at Jax while in attendance at the Royal Rumble. The fallout of the same also saw severe fan-backlash against Grim.

In case you didn’t know…

Nia Jax has been considerably vocal about being body-shamed over the course of her life.

Jax stands at 6-feet tall and weighs in at upwards of 270 pounds, and has often been subjected to criticism and weight-related insults from certain sections of the professional wrestling community over the years.

The heart of the matter

Grim of Grim’s Toy Show Wrestling is known for performing at indie events primarily under the ring name ‘Grim’ and also as 'Haram-Rey Mysterio', 'Donald Plump' and ‘The Fat Man Who Runs The Brand’. The indie wrestler/YouTube wrestling personality posted the following video which was recorded while he was in attendance for the Women’s Royal Rumble Match—

Grim toy shit can choke. Body shaming is not cool at all. pic.twitter.com/4Fonph6p5t

— 💸💸 (@RIDEBLOODSNGUTS) February 1, 2018

The video shows Grim referring to Nia Jax as ‘Nia Fat’, ‘Battle Cow’ and ‘The Fat One’. Several fans came to Jax’s defense, and derided Grim for his body-shaming comments, while Jax alluded that while she doesn’t care about his insults, she added the fact that he went on a body-shaming rant with a young woman next to him is shameful—

I’m guessing he wants attention @GrimsToyShow for his horrible behavior, making fun of my weight (which is completely unoriginal 🙄), but what gets me is that he’s shouting degrading things toward women in front of a young girl. Good job buddy https://t.co/7kfmJXaac0

— Nia Jax (@NiaJaxWWE) February 1, 2018

Following considerable backlash on Twitter, Grim apologized to Jax, and continued engaging in arguments with a few fans—

I’m so sorry @NiaJaxWWE I feel like a total piece of crap now. I hope you will accept my apology and I will remove that video. I’m a huge fan of all involved in the women’s and Men’s rumble, sometimes I get carried away “trying” to be “shocking” 😓😓 https://t.co/RZz4WGYQAg

— Grim's Toy Show (@GrimsToyShow) February 1, 2018

Mad at me for fucking up, justifiable. But Telling me to kill myself is somehow not worse than fat jokes? Because I said a stupid joke it’s ok to tell me to committ suicide? https://t.co/AIpRN3KSwA

— Grim's Toy Show (@GrimsToyShow) February 1, 2018

I messed up this time guys and I’m sorry. I’ll work very hard to be better. I sent an apology to @NiaJaxWWE and removed the video.

— Grim's Toy Show (@GrimsToyShow) February 1, 2018

What’s next?

Nia Jax presently performs for the WWE’s RAW brand. While Jax was involved in a romance/comedy angle with Enzo Amore, given that the latter has been fired from the WWE, Jax will now continue a similar storyline with Drew Gulak.

Author’s take

Honestly speaking, it appears that the man who refers to himself as ‘The Fat Man Who Runs The Brand’ and ‘Donald Plump’, may have thought it to be alright to paint others with the same brush as he does himself.

That seems to be where he went wrong, as engaging in self-deprecating humor is one thing, but insulting others by body-shaming them is another. Kudos to Nia Jax for shutting down this YouTube personality who claims to be an indie wrestler.