Buff Bagwell Reveals Why He Had His Leg Amputated
Buff Bagwell because he was set to have his right leg amputated, and he shared what ultimately led him to having the surgery.
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Buff Bagwell is still feeling the effects of his past behavior, as it has now cost him his leg.
Maven’s latest vlog features a visit with Buff Bagwell, but it’s not under the best of circumstances. Maven went to visit Buff because he was having his right leg amputated. On July 10, Bagwell had what he said “they ‘nicely called’ an ‘AKA: Above the Knee Amputation.’”
Bagwell explained that in August of 2020, he was driving under the influence. He was drinking the night prior and took prescription medication the next morning, even pointing out he drank a Diet Coke since he knew he’d be operating a vehicle. Bagwell ended up getting in a serious accident, blacking out as he drove his car through a bathroom behind a Marietta, Georgia mall.
Bagwell says the accident caved in his kneecap. He had other injuries, including a black eye and shoulder injury, but the wreck had shattered his knee.
“When you hear ‘knee replacement,’ you think [I’ll] get a new knee. But you’ve got to have your kneecap. And I didn’t have my kneecap. My kneecap, the doctors said on impact, it exploded. It wasn’t there.”
uff Bagwell says he believes he messed up with an initial operation to fix his leg. He says one doctor told him he had a 75 percent chance of losing his leg, and he’s had what he estimates to be “30-something surgeries” to try and fix the problem.
“There was a seven-week stay early on in 2020 where there were 21 surgeries,” Bagwell said.
Bagwell says no one ever mentioned amputation besides the original doctor. He continued going to doctors, and one gave him a 20 percent chance of keeping his leg. He would have had to have three different surgeries, hours of physical therapy, and his leg would have remained straight for the rest of his life.
Bagwell believes everything happens for a reason, and he doesn’t believe he would be sober if he didn’t have the leg injury in the first place.
“I’d rather be sober right now with this situation, than Buff Bagwell on WCW making money and in the funk that I was in. I’d much rather have this life.”
After the procedure, Buff said he wants to learn how to run and get back in the ring.
“It’ll show that I’ve come out of the darkness with this thing and I’ve turned it around all the way to being back in the ring as Buff Bagwell. You don’t have to give up with something like this. I am taking it by the horns and I am going to show the world that you can have just as good of a life with or without a leg.”
