Wrestling legend Buff Bagwell has right leg amputated above the knee

Marcus Bagwell, known under his nickname Bas Bagwell, shows fans his vulnerable side before an operation to amputate his right leg.

Bagwell appeared on the Wrestling World Championship from 1991 to 2001, where he was champion of the world team five times. Friday, the legendary wrestler published a video on his YouTube channel sharing how he went from domination in the ring to prepare an operation that changes his life.

Appearing in the video alongside his fiancée, Stacy Brown, Bagwell explains that the amputation was “the result of a five -year battle trying to save my leg” after a car accident in August 2020.

Bagwell explains that he crushed his chevy Tahoe in a structure behind the Cumberland shopping center while he was in a state of drunkenness, and that the incident occurred while he was still recovering from a surgery on foot and had recently made the knee of a minor meniscus.

The former wrestler says that a part of the building collapsed, and she seriously injured his knee, leading to a stay at the seven -week hospital and an apparently constant trip to the hospital for 21 surgeries which, according to Bagwell, led to the “deepest and darkest dependence in which I have ever been”.

During the five years, Sine The Accident, Bagwell fought so as not to lose the leg, as well as to work on his dependence on the substance. The wrestler went to detoxification treatment in August 2022 and arrived on three years of sobriety.

The trip to keep your right leg, however, ended on a very different note.

“I thought I was going to be able to recover my leg. I thought I was going to be able to repair it again,” admits Bagwell. “I have a relationship with Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior. I had an excellent relationship with Stacy – let’s reinforce this leg. And that … it did not happen.”

Bagwell says that it was “39 or 40 surgeries”, including “knee transactors, flap surgeries, [and] Repair of the extensor mechanism. “”

Despite everything, the result remained that there was “no stability” in his leg. And so it is time for amputation.

“Everything happens for a reason,” concludes Bagwell. “I’m not like depressed … I fought the fight. I look down and I can say, I tried.”

In an interview with former wrestler Maven Huff, Bagwell revealed that he did not plan to let his amputation keep him for a long time of the wrestling ring.

“I will be able to run and I will be able to run better,” he promised. “I want to come back to the ring, hit the ropes, have a match. It will show that I got out of the dark with this thing, and I returned it until I was back in the ring as a Buff Bagwell.”

He continued: “You don’t have to give up with something like that. This is something I take by horns, guy. And I will show the world that you can have such a good life with or without a leg.”

Friday afternoon, the close friend of Bagwell, Steve Stasiak, shared a snapshot of the wrestler’s post-operation on Facebook, explaining that the operation occurred Thursday morning and encouraging fans to send love to Bagwell.

“I have known Buff for a long time. I saw him under the spotlight, I saw him behind the scenes, and I saw him fighting through things that most people never hear speaking. This one … It’s difficult. For him. For all those who know and love him,” wrote Stasiak.

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He continued: “The injuries of his 2020 accident never completely healed. He gave him everything he had to avoid this result – but this fight led him here. And now begins a brand new type of battle. Buff was one of the brightest stars in a wild era in fighting.

Stasiak concluded his article with a call to action: “If you read this, I just ask you to send a little love to the world for buff. No big gestures. Just something real. A thought, a prayer, a moment.”