Butterbean, the former super heavyweight champion in boxing, revealed his dramatic weight loss of more than 200 pounds over the last couple of years.
The 57-year-old boxer, whose real name is Eric Esch, made a point to boast about his body transformation on Instagram earlier this week.
“Look, I’ve never done a public weigh-in, first time, I was 515 about a year-and-a-half ago, two years ago, so let’s see what I weigh now,” he said.
Butterbean said he has been working out with DDP Yoga, the lifestyle rehabilitation center led by former pro wrestling champion Diamond Dallas Page.
The former boxer stepped on the scale and weighed in at 303.8 pounds.
“I went through a stage where I was looking at the end of my life — not that I was going to kill myself,” Butterbean said in an interview with The Sun last year.
“But in my life I was getting down, I was way overweight and just feeling down. I didn’t know if I had a couple of years to live or not.”
In the interview, he credited DDP’s program with getting him in the best shape he’d ever been in.
“And it’s given me more energy and life since I was fighting regularly. But now, I’m in the best shape I’ve ever been in my life,” he said.
Butterbean, at one point, was one of the most famous boxers in the world.
He defeated Ed White for the IBA super heavyweight championship in 1997, defending it five times before giving up the belt in 2000.
WWE fans are familiar with Butterbean from when he defeated Bart Gunn in a shoot fight — meaning it was real, not scripted — knocking him out in just 34 seconds at WrestleMania XV in 1999.
Butterbean’s final fight came in 2013 when he retired due to a shoulder injury in a match against Kirk Lawton in Australia.
He was also once the subject of a reality show where he served as a reserve deputy in Alabama.
At that point, in 2011, he weighed in at 416 pounds.
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