Nia Jax Discusses Her Fitness and Weight Loss Journey, Explains Why WWE Stopped Announcing Her Weight

During a recent interview with Insight With Chris Van Vliet, former WWE Women’s Champion Nia Jax discussed her fitness journey and bringing down her weight 100 pounds from her highest weight. She also discussed being the only female WWE Superstar whose weight got announcing, explaining why WWE opted to stop. Below are some highlights from Insight:

On People Not Being Aware of Her Athleticism

“It was something where it was like, Oh no, you shouldn’t do that. Somebody said you shouldn’t [do that]. [Because of] Your size, stay in this kind of in this lane, because this person does this, and this person does that, and you are special here. So I’d always get sh*t on like, ‘Oh, you’re boring.’ I’m like, actually, no, I can do things, just you stay in the lane that you’re told to stay in. Now, I mean, I’ve played sports my entire life. I’ve never not played sports. I played basketball, soccer, baseball, anything I could. I’m a pickleball player now.”

On Playing Pickleball

“Well, since we’ve been on the road, not as often. But when I was off, when I was trying to lose weight, I got bored with certain cardio and I would just play pickleball all day with my church group. We’d go at like 7 am to noon and it was so much fun.”

Nia Jax on her Fitness Journey

“Thank you. It’s funny because right now, I just told one of the girls, and they were like, No way, because they hadn’t seen me at my biggest. My fitness journey started three years ago. At this point, I’ve lost 100 pounds since I started. Not a lot of people saw me when I was that big, because I wasn’t really working here, and I tried to stay off the internet. But yeah, this is actually the weight I started in NXT at when I got hired. So it’s kind of like people haven’t seen that because I never really had the opportunity to lock it in, and I’ve been locked in. My nephew was like, ‘I’m 100 pounds.’ I’m like, ‘I know, I just lost you!’”

On Being the Only Female WWE Superstar Whose Weight WWE Announced

“I know everybody went nuts and they’re like, ‘How dare you announce your weight?’ I was like, whatever. So I think the idea was just to be like, I know she’s big, but this is how big she is. I’ve always been a heavier girl. If I showed you a picture of me at my thinnest, you wouldn’t even believe I was like 225 pounds at my thinnest. So when I was that way, I was heavier than Roman. I was heavier than all The Shield guys. So I think the thought was it’s impressive that you’re this weight and move the way you do. I think they announced me at 270 and that’s a lot of weight. To be able to move and do what I’ve done at 270 is difficult. So I think it wasn’t like, oh, let’s embarrass her and shame her. It was more of like, no, we’re trying to show you that’s impressive. Yokozuna, he was a big man, but that guy moved. If you go back and watch his stuff, he can move, and Vince was like, that’s the impressive part about it. I think that’s where the idea came from.”

On Why WWE Stopped Announcing Her Weight

“I couldn’t even remember because it wasn’t something [bad], I didn’t have an issue with it. It wasn’t like, I’m so upset. I was like, yeah. They asked me before.”

Nia Jax last competed at the WWE Royal Rumble 2026 over the weekend in the women’s Rumble match. She entered at No. 4 and was later eliminated by Charlotte Flair.