Chyna created quite the legacy for herself in the world of professional wrestling, and at the height of her popularity she decided to pose for Playboy.
Her former manager Anthony Anzaldo recently spoke about some big moments from Chyna’s career on the Wrestling Inc. Daily podcast, and he backed up Chyna’s claim that doing Playboy cost her a WWE Championship run.
“They offered her the WWE Championship belt, but Vince said, ‘But you can’t do Playboy’ because she got offered to do Playboy. She chose Playboy over the belt. She went and got her boobs done one week and didn’t tell Vince, and when she came back, he was f-ing pissed. That was her first boob job.”
Anzaldo went on to claim that Chyna did not get paid for the book WWE released about her even though she had to promote it.
“Vince says, ‘If you do Playboy, you don’t get the belt.’ She said f–k the belt. I’m doing Playboy,” Anzaldo recalled. “Highest selling out of the box Playboy, first week Playboy, in the history of Playboy, more than Kim Kardashian. It’s top three of all time behind Kardashian and Marilyn Monroe. So she does Playboy. Awesome. Now, she’s a big f–king star. She does the book, but WWE did the book, and she didn’t even make money on the book.”
“By the way, she didn’t get paid to make the book. She had to promote it. She had to do signings. Did not make one penny on the book. They kept it all, and by the way, they edited it. She wasn’t able to say the truth about certain s–t. They put stuff in there that isn’t true. They took stuff out of there. She hated that book. Our book is the real story, and it’s coming.”
Even though Chyna ultimately did not win the WWE Championship, she is the only woman in history to hold the WWE Intercontinental Championship.
