Chip Minton

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Medal record
Bobsleigh
World Championships
Bronze	1997 St. Moritz	Four-man

Nathan "Chip" Minton III (born June 9, 1969) is an American bobsledder and professional wrestler who competed in the late 1990s in bobsleigh while competing full time in the now discontinued World Championship Wrestling (WCW).

1 Early life
2 Career
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Early life

A native of Macon, Georgia, Minton worked as a prison guard before going into both professional wrestling and bobsleigh. Minton played American football while in high school in Macon, graduating in 1987. Minton got interested in bobsledding while watching the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville as a prison guard.

[edit] Career

[edit] Bobsleigh

Minton won a bronze medal in the four-man event at the 1997 FIBT World Championships in St. Moritz. Competing in two Winter Olympics, his best finish was fifth in the four-man event at Nagano in 1998. At the 1998 games, Minton was 6 ft. 1 in. (1.85 m) tall and weighed 245 lbs (111 kg), the heaviest person for the entire American team for those games.

[edit] Professional wrestling

After the 1994 Winter Olympics, Minton competed as a professional wrestler in the WCW under the name of "Mr. World Class". He used finishing moves such as the "Brainbuster" and the "Standing Splash". He feuded with Chris Adams in 1998, primarily over the use of the name World Class, which Adams felt was a potshot to his earlier days in World Class Championship Wrestling. Minton competed through the late 1990s.

[edit] Ministry

Since retiring from wrestling, Minton has works ful-time for Team Impact, a Christian Athlete ministry based out of Coppell, Texas. He is also a parent still living in Macon.