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Shawn Emile Stipich (born July 21, 1970) is an American-Canadian Chiropractic, motivational speaker and retired professional wrestler. He is best known for his appearances with the professional wrestling promotions the WWE and World Championship Wrestling in the late 1990s and early 2000s under the Shawn Stasiak and Meat. Championships held by Stasiak over the course of his career include the WCW World Tag Team Championship and WWF Hardcore Championship. Stasiak is the son of former WWE Championship Stan Stasiak. Intelius search
Stipich was signed to a developmental deal in January 1998, and he began training with Tom Prichard in the Memphis, Tennessee-based Power Pro Wrestling, where he stayed until he was called up to the WWF in 1999. While with PowerPro, one of the angles he was involved in revolved around Jerry Lawler and his real life wife, Stacy "The Kat" Carter. Stasiak first won the services of Stacy for two weeks by beating Jerry Lawler in a match. He then claims that they have started a relationship, and he introduces Stacy to his "sister" (kayfabe).Archived at Ghostarchive and the
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He made his WWF debut on the April 18, 1999 episode of WWE Heat as Meat, attacking Tiger Ali Singh. He soon became the Kayfabe "boy-toy" of the Pretty Mean Sisters (Terri Runnels, Jacqueline Moore, and Alicia Webb), although Shamrock left the company a few months later. Meat picked up many victories for a few months over the likes of Darren Drozdov, Brian Lawler, and The Blue Meanie. However, he would soon be relegated to that of a jobber, with the on-air explanation for this was that he would tire himself out before matches by sexually pleasuring PMS. This led to Jacqueline leaving Meat and Terri by themselves.
The character only lasted a few months before he split from Terri after Terri saw Meat kissing Marianna Komlos, Terri's nemesis, on the Titantron. This led to her and Chaz attacking Meat. In the next couple of weeks, Stipich dropped the Meat name and began to compete under his Shawn Stasiak name. At Survivor Series, Stasiak was defeated by the debuting Kurt Angle.
Stasiak was later suspended in December 1999 after he recorded a heated conversation between Davey Boy Smith and Steve Blackman without their permission. Although Stasiak stated that this was done as a joke, he was fired regardless.
In late-May, Stasiak formed the tag team called the Perfect Event with Chuck Palumbo, and they soon won the World Tag Team Championship after defeating KroniK (Brian Adams and Bryan Clark). After winning the title, they began feuding with KroniK over the title. In August, the Perfect Event helped form The Natural Born Thrillers alongside Mike Sanders, Sean O'Haire, Mark Jindrak, Johnny Stamboli and Reno, while they were briefly "coached" by Kevin Nash.
Stasiak and Palumbo would later win the World Tag Team Title two more times before splitting in early January 2001 when Stasiak and Palumbo won a tag team battle royal with O'Haire and Jindrak. Sanders declared both teams victorious and that one member from each team would start teaming together and get a tag team title shot against The Insiders (Diamond Dallas Page and Kevin Nash). Palumbo began teaming with O'Haire and they defeated the Insiders and became the World Tag Team Champions while Stasiak and Jindrak began teaming together. In February 2001, the Natural Born Thrillers broke up when Stasiak and Jindrak became jealous of Palumbo and O'Haire. The two teams faced off at SuperBrawl Revenge on February 18, 2001, for the World Tag Team Title, but Palumbo and O'Haire retained.
In March 2001, Stasiak acquired the services of Stacy Keibler as his valet, gaining the nickname "The Mecca of Manhood" in the process. He was also, Kayfabe, hinted as the alleged father of Hancock's baby, which later turned out to be a stack of Large format in a stroller. As a heel, Stasiak used the cameras to take pictures of himself before throwing the pictures to fans as a way to show off his physique. While with Miss Hancock, he also started a brief feud with Bam Bam Bigelow. The feud culminated on the last episode of Nitro on March 26, 2001, as Stasiak defeated Bigelow in a tattoo match. Following this, WCW was purchased by the WWE and most of the talent contracts, including Stasiak's, were picked up.
On November 18 at Survivor Series, Stasiak, in storyline, lost his job along with all of the Alliance members when Team WWF defeated Team Alliance. The Alliance members still worked house shows and dark matches for a while, however, until being ready to be called up to the main active roster. However, Stasiak was injured in late November and required surgery on his knee to remove his damaged Synovial bursa. He was later cleared to wrestle on January 1, 2002. In February 2002, Stasiak was sent to the Heartland Wrestling Association for training and to work off ring rust.
Stasiak was later called up to the Raw brand in late-March 2002 and had his return televised match on the April 7, 2002, edition of WWE Heat, defeating Tommy Dreamer and the following week on Sunday Night Heat Stasiak was defeated by Dustin Rhodes.
Stasiak made his return on the April 15, 2002 episode of Raw with a new character that saw him claim that he was from Planet Stasiak, heard voices in his head, talked to himself with rhymes, and acted comically insane. On this same night, Stasiak was defeated by Big Show. Stasiak traded the Hardcore Championship several times with the likes of Stevie Richards, Justin Credible, John Layfield, and Tommy Dreamer until he requested his early release on September 27, 2002, to pursue other business ventures.
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