When you think of the name ‘Butterbean,’ any fans that remember the ferocious boxer can garner an image in their head. Delete that image for all eternity because the famed boxer no longer looks like that.
The prominent boxer, who rose t fame in the 90s, has lost more than 200 pounds and looks like a shell of his former self.
Also, he is 57-years-old.
The former super heavyweight champion in boxing revealed his dramatic weight loss of more than 200 pounds over the last couple of years during a recent video on Instagram.
“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.
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After stepping n the scale, it came out to 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.”
It was in that interview that 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.
At one point in his life, he 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.
Wrestling fans are also familiar with him after he did a crossover and defeated Bart Gunn in a shoot fight and knocked him out in just 34 seconds at WrestleMania XV in 1999. As you know, this was all scripted.
Butterbean’s final fight came in 2013 when he retired due to a shoulder injury in a match against Kirk Lawton in Australia.
