48-Year-Old Wrestler Recalls Stephanie McMahon’s Body-Shaming Comments That Earned Him Cash

WWE often goes extreme with its storylines. On the April 16, 2000, episode of Sunday Night Heat, Stephanie McMahon had a backstage segment with a former WWE and WCW wrestler that cost the promotion hundreds of dollars. The segment consisted of McMahon berating the wrestler for his physique.

The ex-wrestler in question here is Chris Nelson, aka Chris Tipton. He wrestled in WWE on and off from 1994 to 2001 and hasn’t made an appearance on WWE TV since then. Let’s dive deep and find out what remarks McMahon made to Nelson that cost the promotion five grand for a brief backstage segment.

Stephanie McMahon’s on-screen personal trainer punched Chris Nelson in the stomach

Nelson recently sat down for a virtual interview for the Cheap Heat Productions podcast. During the interview, he reflected upon his brief backstage segment with ‘Steph’. He told the fans that Kevin Kelly got him to do the backstage segment with the former co-CEO of WWE.

The segment consisted of him pretending to be a member of the lightning crew in WWE. McMahon then spotted him backstage and fat-shamed him on TV. Muffy, aka Caryn Lynn Mower (her on-screen personal trainer) chimed in and heaped insults on Nelson as well.

He said, “She [McMahon] goes, ‘Hey, who are you? Do you work here?’. ‘Yeah, on the lighting crew.’ ‘God, you’re fat! You’re slovenly. I can’t believe you work for WWF [WWE]. This is my personal trainer, Muffy, now your personal trainer.’ Then she [Muffy] starts, ‘I don’t know what your name is. I’ll call you fat-a**,’ or whatever.”

Muffy then punched him in the stomach and made him do jumping jacks. This brief segment made Nelson $500, which led other wrestlers to get jealous of him.

Nelson’s fellow wrestlers were shocked and unhappy with him getting paid more for a brief backstage segment

Nelson in the interview revealed that when he went to take his salary, it shocked his fellow wrestlers when they heard the amount. They were not happy because they worked so hard in their ring and all he had to do was take some negative comments from ‘The Billion Dollar Princess’ and her personal trainer.

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He adds that Kevin Kelly got him a lot of heat in the locker room because of the segment he did with McMahon. He hadn’t expected that things would take this turn. Stephanie McMahon has been an integral part of WWE for 2+ decades. She had an enormous hand in shaping the women’s division in WWE.

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Walking in her father’s footsteps, she played a heel in the business for the better part of her career. Currently, she has taken some time off her work to be around her family more, but fans would love to see her back soon. What do you think about McMahon’s backstage segment with Chris Nelson? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.