Chip Minton

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).

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.

Career

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.

Professional wrestling

After the 1994 Winter Olympics, Minton competed as a professional wrestler in the WCW under the name of "Mr. World Class" Chip Minton. 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.

Ministry

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

Olympic Torch

Chip Minton also carried the 1996 Olympic torch thru Macon,Ga,

In wrestling

• Finishing moves
  • Brainbuster^[1]
  • Standing splash,^[1][2][3][4] sometimes from the top rope^[5]

• Signature moves
  • Arm drag^[4]
  • Back slide
  • Biel throw^[5]
  • Dropkick^[2][3][6][7]
  • Hip toss^[2][8]
  • Lariat^[2]
  • Leg drop^{[2][3][4][5][8][9][10]}
  • Hurricanrana^[10]
  • Powerslam^[4]
  • Scoop slam^[5][7][9]
  • Side headlock^[5]
  • Snap suplex
  • Sunset flip^[6][7]
  • Turnbuckle thrust^[9]
  • Vertical suplex^[5][8]

• Nicknames
  • "Mr. World Class"^[1]

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b c} "Cagematch profile". http://www.cagematch.de/?id=2&nr=7797&name=Chip+Minton. 
2. ^ ^{a b c d e} "WCW Saturday Night report on October 31, 1998". http://www.ddtdigest.com/updates/1998105s.htm. 
3. ^ ^{a b c} "WCW Saturday night report on March 27, 1999". http://www.ddtdigest.com/updates/1999034s.htm. 
4. ^ ^{a b c d} "WCW Saturday Night report on July 17, 1999". http://www.ddtdigest.com/updates/1999073s.htm. 
5. ^ ^{a b c d e f} "WCW WorldWide report on January 30, 1999". http://www.ddtdigest.com/updates/1999015w.htm. 
6. ^ ^{a b} "WCW Thunder report on December 3, 1998". http://www.ddtdigest.com/updates/1998114t.htm. 
7. ^ ^{a b c} "Chip Minton Vs. Kurasawa". World Championship Wrestling. WCW Saturday Night.
8. ^ ^{a b c} "WCW Saturday Night report on January 16, 1999". http://www.ddtdigest.com/updates/1999013s.htm. 
9. ^ ^{a b c} "WCW WorldWide report on April 10, 1999". http://www.ddtdigest.com/updates/1999042w.htm. 
10. ^ ^{a b} "WCW Saturday Night report on April 17, 1999". http://www.ddtdigest.com/updates/1999043s.htm. 

References

• Bobsleigh four-man world championship medalists since 1930
• 1994 bobsleigh two-man results
• 1998 bobsleigh preview on the Spiral bobsleigh track
• 1998 bobsleigh four-man results
• 1998 U.S. Winter Olympic team roster extremes featuring Minton - Accessed September 9, 2007.
• List of 1999 WCW matches featuring Minton
• List of professional wrestling moves featuring Minton.
• Longman, Jere. "Shimer Looks to Lift Cloud of Suspicion". New York Times. February 5, 1998. - Accessed September 9, 2007. Features Minton's former profession.
• Team Impact news of Minton's joining of the organization.

External links

Professional wrestling portal

• Myspace.com profile

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