Joanie 'Chyna' Laurer embarked on a fully-fledged porn career after her days in the ring were over.
Afterwards she took her career in a more x-rated direction - making homemade sex tapes and becoming an adult movie star.
The grappler first got a taste of life baring her body when she posed for Playboy in November 2000.
Chyna's naked pictorial was an instant success and to this day is still one of the magazine's best-selling issues.
The athlete would once again strip off for the camera when she graced the publication's cover again in 2002.
Three years later Chyna and her then-boyfriend Sean Waltman - known as X-Pac in WWE - created a sex tape during a trip to China.
Upon its release the raunchy footage was distributed under the name 1 Night in China - a play on Paris Hilton's sex tape.
Three years later Chyna and her then-boyfriend Sean Waltman - known as X-Pac in WWE - created a sex tape during a trip to China.
Upon its release the raunchy footage was distributed under the name 1 Night in China - a play on Paris Hilton's sex tape.
While Chyna agreed with the tape being released, she would always claim that the deal actually went ahead without her signing off on it.
However ex-boyfriend Sean denies these accusations and insists she earned $100,000 from the sales.
A sequel - titled Another Night in China - was released in 2009.
n 2011, Chyna made her professional porn debut after signing a deal with Vivid Video.
At the time she told Wrestling News Live's Fall Out Show: "I am totally psyched and I'll tell you why. I haven’t felt like this since I was on top of my wrestling days, right before my departure.
"I had just done my book and I did Playboy and it was the total high of my life. I loved every day and I woke up every day to do all that. It was tremendous."
She added: "I had been doing little movies here and there and a couple of reality shows but this, when this opportunity came up, I was like 'yeah', I didn't have to think twice about it.
"I was insecure for about two minutes and then I thought, 'why on earth would you not do this?'"
Chyna's first flick - titled Backdoor to Chyna - caused controversy as it parodied her wrestling career.
The movie saw her engaging in sexual acts with actors dressed liked WWE bossVince McMahon and 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin.
Prior to her death Chyna began campaigning to be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame .
However ex-boyfriend Triple H argued it was unlikely she'd be given the honour because of her history.
He said during a WWE podcast that he worried what young children would find if they searched for her online to see who she was.
He added: "I'm not criticising anybody, I'm not criticising lifestyle choices, everyone has their reasons.
"I don’t know what they were and I don’t care to know. It's not a morality thing or anything else, it is just the fact of what it is, it's a difficult choice."