Wrestling celebrity Marcus “Buff” Bagwell had most of his leg amputated Thursday, following years of medical issues stemming from a critical automobile accident in 2020.
The amputation was confirmed Friday by Bagwell’s longtime pal and BookProWrestlers.web proprietor Steve Stasiak, who stated in a heartfelt assertion that the above-the-knee amputation had taken place early Thursday morning.
“I’ve known Buff a long time. I’ve seen him in the spotlight, I’ve seen him behind the scenes, and I’ve seen him fight through things most people never even hear about,” Stasiak wrote on Fb. “This one… this is hard. For him. For everyone who knows and loves him.”
Based on Stasiak, the previous World Championship Wrestling star by no means totally recovered from a automobile crash close to Atlanta on Aug. 16, 2020.
“The injuries from his 2020 accident never fully healed,” Stasiak wrote. “He gave it everything he had to avoid this outcome — but that fight led him here. And now begins a whole new kind of battle.”
About 12 hours earlier than his surgical procedure, Bagwell recorded a video explaining that he was about to have most of his leg amputated.
“This has been a five-year-long journey of trying to save my leg,” he stated within the emotional video, sitting subsequent to his fiancée, Stacy Brown.
“I’m trying to be excited about [the amputation] and I think it’s going to be a wonderful thing,” he stated. “So I’m trying to make a bad situation good again, like I’ve done a lot of times in my life. But I really do think this is the right call. And I’m really thinking that I’m going to have a better quality of life.”
