WrestleZone is proud to present the latest episode of our signature daily pro wrestling news podcast, WZ Daily! Today’s episode features an exclusive interview with former WCW/WWE/NWO Superstar Marcus “Buff” Bagwell!
Tomorrow’s episode of WZ Daily will feature interviews with Ring of Honor’s Silas Young and Jay Lethal just hours before they do battle at Best In The World.
You can find some of Buff’s comments transcribed below.
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On an early warning he got about his ring name “Buff Bagwell”:
BB: I remember thinking of the name Buff Bagwell and saying, “Oh man! That’s great! It’s perfect!” Then Arn Anderson walked up to me and I remember him saying, “You’re gonna regret that someday.” I really didn’t know what he meant at 25 years old. I asked, “What do you mean?” He said, “Just trust me.” Then he walked off and I really didn’t know what he meant. Fast forward 15-16 years it dogged back to me what he said that day. It was true. I realized what he meant. I was “Buff” Bagwell forever. Kind of like what your finishing move is. Scott Steiner at 280 lbs did the Frankensteiner. He literally and physically crippled himself doing that move but that’s your finisher and people want to see you do it every single night. That’s what my physique is.
On why he is choosing to retire early next year from professional wrestling:
BB: It’s really more of the fact that I don’t want to come out and not look like Buff. I don’t know how much longer I can do that. I really don’t. I am never going to come out and have people say, “You know that Buff guy that used to look like this? Well now he looks like this…”
On the one piece of advice that he gives to independent wrestlers most often:
BB: Get out of this business now. That’s the honest to God truth. I do it much nicer than that. There are some guys I push that really have the “it” factor.
Buff’s appearance is in conjunction with his current Buff Bagwell Retirement Tour that he is currently on.
We will have more transcribed quotes from Buff’s interview tomorrow afternoon.
The WZ Daily will be made available Monday-Friday around Noon EST on Eric Bischoff’s IRWNetwork.com!
Some of the topics host Nick Hausman and Buff discuss include:
- All of the tribulations Buff has had to overcome
- Who warned him about taking on the “Buff Bagwell” name
- Whether he wishes he had taken on a different gimmick early on
- Why he has decided to retire from pro wrestling in 2018
- What advice he most often gives to independent wrestlers
- If he thinks that independent wrestlers are taking too many risks
- What he learned while working in Japan shortly after joining the NWO
- More…
You can listen to the latest episode of Bischoff on Wrestling in the embedded audio player below:
