Shawn Stasiak

Shawn Emile Stipich (born July 21, 1970) is an American Canadian chiropractor, motivational speaker and retired professional wrestler.

He is best known for his appearances with the professional wrestling promotions the World Wrestling Federation/World Wrestling Entertainment and World Championship Wrestling in the late 1990s and early 2000s under the ring names 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 WWWF Champion Stan Stasiak.

Though born in Hayward, California, much of the early years of Stasiak's life were spent on the road, traveling from territory to territory with his dad, before the family eventually returned to Canada and settled in Oakville, Ontario, near Toronto.

He attended White Oaks Secondary School, where he wrestled in Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations events.

After graduating, he attended Boise State University, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in communications.

During his studies, Stipich made it to second place in the Pacific-10 Conference in two consecutive years.

Stipich trained as a professional wrestler under Dory Funk Jr.. at Funking Conservatory, debuting in 1996 under the ring name "Shawn Stasiak" for the Vancouver-based independent promotion Pacific Coast Championship Wrestling.

In 1996, Stipich sent a tape consisting of vignettes to the World Wrestling Federation, with one of the segments seeing him dressed up as a Halloween character named Fobia and instructing kids on how to trick-or-treat safely.

The character's origin story was based on a nest of spiders that lived under his bed.

After reviewing the tape, the WWF allowed him to have a tryout match in October 1997.

Stipich was then 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" (storyline).

The next week, he introduces Stacy to his "mother", Mae Young.

This begins a series of different matches between Stasiak, Lawler, Mae Young, and Stacy.

He made his WWF debut on the April 18, 1999 episode of Sunday Night Heat as Meat, attacking Tiger Ali Singh.

He soon became the storyline "boy-toy" of the Pretty Mean Sisters (Terri Runnels, Jacqueline, and Ryan Shamrock), although Shamrock left the company a few months later.

Meat picked up many victories for a few months over the likes of Droz, Brian Christopher, 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, 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.

After WWF, Stasiak was signed by World Championship Wrestling in early 2000.

After training in the company's Power Plant wrestling school with Paul Orndorff, he made his WCW debut on the April 10, 2000 episode of Nitro by attacking Curt Hennig.

He later joined the New Blood and began feuding with Hennig.

He was soon given nicknames such as "The Perfect One" and later "Perfect" Shawn Stasiak, the latter of which was a parody of Hennig's "Mr. Perfect" character.

Stasiak picked up two victories over Hennig, one of which was Stasiak's WCW pay-per-view debut on May 7, 2000 at Slamboree.

Hennig soon became impressed with Stasiak and briefly coached him before Hennig's WCW contract expired in June 2000.

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 the Bull 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).