6 WWE Superstars who were told to lose weight

#5 Former WWE Superstar Gangrel

Gangrel’s most memorable run in the wrestling business came between 1998-2000 when he portrayed a blood-drinking vampire in WWE.

Prior to his full-time spell with the company, the former Brood member appeared on WWE television under a different name – The Black Phantom – as an enhancement talent in 1994-95, while he also lost a match against Big Boss Man at a Wrestling Challenge taping in 1988.

Speaking to Fightful’s Sean Ross Sapp in 2018, Gangrel reflected on his 30 years in wrestling and recalled that he was told to lose weight during his time as an enhancement talent.

“They flew me into all the TVs and did all the house shows. I was never under contract. They were telling me to lose weight, grow my hair. I had fangs bonded in permanently and they were like, ‘You gotta get rid of the fangs.’”

Despite losing weight and doing everything else that had been asked, Edge and Christian's former on-screen ally said WWE officials had a change of heart and they wanted him to have fangs again and shorter hair.

He agreed with the vampire idea but he did not want to cut his hair again after previously being told to grow it.