Buff Bagwell

Marcus Bagwell
Data
Ring name	Buff Bagwell Fabian The Fabulous Fabian The Handsome Stranger Marcus Alexander
height	185 cm
Fighting weight	113 kg
birth	January 10, 1970 Marietta , Georgia
Announced from	Marietta , Georgia
Trained by	Dusty Rhodes , Mike Graham, Steve Lawler
debut	1990

Marcus Alexander "Buff" Bagwell (born January 10, 1970 in Marietta , Georgia , United States ), better known by his ring name Buff Bagwell , is an American wrestler . He is best known for his appearances in World Championship Wrestling between 1991 and 2001, where he became a five-time WCW World Tag Team Champion .

Career

Beginnings

Bagwell was born in Marietta and made his first athletic steps as a baseball and American football player in high school. He first worked in the family business, a lumber company, which went bankrupt . From 1990 he decided to take up wrestling training under Steve Lawler and finally made his debut as Fabulous Fabian in Georgia. In 1991 he switched to the Global Wrestling Federation as a Handsome Stranger .

WCW / WWE

Later in 1991, Bagwell was retired from World Championship Wrestling. Here he often competed in teams, including with Tom Zenk, 2 Cold Scorpio, The Patriot, and Scotty Riggs . During this time he has already won the WCW World Tag Team title four times. In November 1996, Bagwell joined the New World Order (nWo). According to the storyline, he started a feud against Lex Luger , which ended in a match at Starrcade in 1997, which Bagwell won.

On April 22, 1998, Bagwell suffered a serious back injury as a result of an unsuccessful action by Rick Steiner , which forced him to take a break of several months. After his return in July, according to the storyline , he was allowed to feud against Steiner in order to take revenge on him.

In June 1999, Bagwell found himself in a feud with Ric Flair and Roddy Piper . Against the latter, Bagwell completed a 3-round boxing match at Bash at the Beach , which he won. He was then put on feud programs with Berlyn and Diamond Dallas Page . Bagwell was one of the first to join Eric Bischoff's "New Blood" faction. Here he was able to win the WCW Tag Team Championship together with Shane Douglas .

In 2000 there was a feud between Bagwell and Lex Luger, this ended with a defeat for Bagwell at Slamboree 2000. Bagwell later joined Douglas again for the tag team title, but they were no longer awarded. So the team was dissolved and both feuded against each other. In August 2000 he had a feud with David Flair , after which Bagwell was put on a team with Lex Luger and had her feud against Bill Goldberg .

In early 2001 Bagwell joined Ric Flair's "Magnificent Seven" stable . In March 2001, WCW was taken over by WWE and Bagwell was employed there from then on. Here Bagwell was allowed to fight for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship against Booker T , but the match ended without a result after Steve Austin and Kurt Angle intervened. He was released from the WWE on July 9th.

From this point on, Bagwell was initially active for the X Wrestling Federation and later for World Wrestling All-Stars . Bagwell also had several appearances with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling in 2002 and 2003. In 2006 he was regularly seen on TNA.

He is currently under contract with Promotion Ultimate NWA , a subsidiary of the National Wrestling Alliance .

Private life

Bagwell has one son and has been married to his third wife, Judy, since 2001.

On April 23, 2012, Bagwell had an epileptic accident while driving and sustained serious injuries.

Bagwell announced that after his career as a wrestler, he would now like to shoot porn.

title

National Wrestling Alliance

• 1 × Ultimate NWA Heavyweight Title
• 1 × NWA Blue Ridge Television Title
• 1 × NWA Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Title
• 1 × NWA Mid-Atlantic Tag-Team Titles (with Dusty Rhodes )

World Championship Wrestling

• 4 × WCW Tag Team Title (1 × each with 2 Cold Scorpio , Scott Steiner , Scotty Riggs and Shane Douglas)

Filmography

• 1996: Day Of The Warrior
• 1998: Return To Savage Beach
• 2000: Terror Tract
• 2003: Charmed (1 episode)

Web links

Commons : Buff Bagwell  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Profile on Neckbruch.com
• Buff Bagwell in theInternet Movie Database(English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.ultimatenwa.com ( Memento from May 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
2. ^ Pro Wrestler may have had seizure before wreck , accessed September 9, 2012
3. ↑ Now it is properly laid on the boards , report in the Bild newspaper