2016 Buff Bagwell talks WWF/WCW and More 

Here's the real problem: Vince McMahon didn't create Buff.

I wish WCW was still around. Man the late 90s was the best for wrestling. I was and still am all about WCW

Buff was and is still better than half the roster in the WWE now. Vince just refuses to put over most WCW guys

Jim lost my respect

I have met Buff Bagwell and got to wear his hat

Buff was too WCW

DDP seemed a little out of place in WWE to me but I thought Buff would've fit right in. I also wish WWE would've given Mike Awesome an opportunity I thought he had real potential and his in ring work was awesome.

WWE screwed WCW. Period.

"..and they HAD A FUCKING ANSWER for that too!" LOL !

The mid to late 90s was such an awesome time to be a Wrestling fan. The Monday night Wars will never be bettered. Buff was great in WCW, looked amazing, great name, gimmick, a decent worker with a good finisher. It's a damn shame he broke his neck, took away all his momentum. Vince totally messed up The Invasion angle, it could have been the greatest angle of all time, Damn shame!

Jim Ross try to act like he's all innocent and a victim it's like please man up and tell the world what you did.

Buff Bagwell goes off at 12:50 and rightfully so, JR is lying at the very least about not burying Buff because he did it on the Legends of Wrestling round-table on WWE 24/7. JR may be well liked, but doesn't mean he wasn't a piece of shit to someone.

I feel bad for Bagwell he seems so nice and down to earth for WWE to not give him a chance. Bagwell was so much better than Tyler Breeze and Fandango.

With his voice tone, he sounds like Steve-o...A JACKED Steve-o

Buffs story hasn’t changed s but in all these years and that’s one big reason I do believe this happened just the way he tells it

I always liked Buff. He had a great physique and face. It's a shame it didn't work out.

For real though, Buff seems like a good fucking dude.

Im reading some comments and i must. Chime in. There are dozens of wrestlers who were shit in the ring that made great money. Buff was decent In the ring. Had a good finisher with a.great name. After the American males the buff bagwell gimmick worked. And he was over. He didn't get didn't a push so we could see how high his ceiling was. Buff would addded star power to the invasion angle. Instead we had guys from wwf that had been there for years waffling between the brands. It was lame

Do any of these guys have a game plan once their career is over? A lot have had big problems after wrestling

$5000 a month rent, DAMN. That’s 20 years ago too.

Poor Marcus Alexander Bagwell is the only well known WCW mid carder to not have given fair and enough opportunity in WWF/WWE. They Screwed Him Up.

Some guys were still contracted to WCW well into 2003. Goldberg, Stevie Ray, Vampiro and Shawn Stasiak (who took a buyout instead of getting paid to do nothing ) being four of them. Flair was another one who had a guaranteed contract until 2003 but he took a buyout and feuded with Vince instead. Goldberg made $6 million sitting on his ass for two years the lucky sob.

so buff was making $360 thousand in wcw dang that's phenomenal money

I agree with Buff Bagwell. And I feel like he would've been awesome as even an Intercontinental Champion after the invasion angle was over.

Vince would never put wcw over

its sad that he couldve just sat at home, with ALL THE MONEY for the remainder of his contract but instead wanted to work and did when called and took a cut AND got fired I wouldve taken the money like Sting, he did ery well never going there till the very end, he was right every WCW guy was going to get fucked for the simple fact they happened to collect a paycheck and do a job like everyone else, its fucked

Buff was a huge star in WCW could have been huge in WWF.

always thought buff was an average wrestler with tons of charisma and decent promo guy. but drew a crowd reaction, still better than Konnan and "the cat" who both suck in my opinion

the wcw wrestlers got screwed,period.

I can tell Buff was going to be loyal to the WWE or WWF ar the time. They screwed Buff.

He's a nice southern cat...... best of luck in his future endeavors

Bagwell vs Benoit would've been a great WWF feud

I think Vince missed out on this one

WCW FOR LIFE. Vince crushed a lot of people that came from WCW cuz he hated it. But what Vince forgets is 90% of the wrestlers came from WCW before he bought them out.

Much love to Buff

1. Buff should've jumped ship when he was courted by Vince 6 months prior. 2. Saying you saved Vince 80 grand is like telling the dude you borrowed money from, "you know what bro, just go ahead and send me 5 instead of 10 that way I save you 5 bucks" when you owe him 20 already. 3. It's 100 percent true that his mom called.

“$175,000, can you do a little better Vince?” “Alright $225,000-$250,000 counting insentives, cool” “Vince you don’t have to pay me last two months of my old deal, which is 60-80,000” 250,000 - 80,000 = $170,000 Great job Buff.

I would love to have seen Buff wrestle some of the WWE guys back when it was WWF during the Invasion.

That's some pretty slimeball s*** Drive-on buff, hell of an Entertainer and hell of a wrestler

WCW has such good production too. WwF seemed more official but WCW seemed more “fun”. A mix of backyard feel with professionalism

lol Buff is still wearing the same hat since 98'

Why didn't TNA ever sign Buff Bagwell? He was over with the fans in WCW, had great mic skills, could wrestle and looked great. And when WWE fired him he was still pretty young probably not even 30 yet. The demise of Buff Bagwells pro wrestling career is one of the most puzzling I've ever seen. It's so sad. And it's sad to see him still so bitter especially at good ole JR. But I can't blame him. WWE royally screwed up on not making this guy a star and their company making only a quarter million dollars a year down from the three-quarters of a million dollars a year he was making in WCW. WWE also screwed up Scott Steiner's run in the early 2000s when he should have been champion and the top heel.

Such a shame what happen to Buff this is why WWE is in the crapper screw them. You don't buy your competition and think your going to continue to make money because ever since then it went in the decline yet people still try to argue they still make money no they dont.No fans 0.1 rating Xfl going out of business again I hope Disney really buys them.

He still could of worked tna or Japan. Wwe sucks anyway it’s embarrassing to even watch

Buff took the mask off and shot hard on Ross! Lmao Good for you brother

The invasion sucked Buff would have been a good heel

WCW had so many personalities back in the 90s... the roster was stacked

First I would like to say thank you to Rob Feinstein and RF Video for allowing me to post this Video of Buff Bagwell thank you so much appreciate it. This shoot was done in 2016 Buff Bagwell talks about WWF/WCW/Scorpio/Jim Ross/End of WCW/Jarrett/Luger plus more.

WWF buried Bagwell intentionally even though he was being a team player what bull shit .

Lol at the marks crying over Buff. Dude was average at best and people act like he was the end all, be all. Go rewatch that Booker T match, it wasn't terrible but he obviously had no fucking clue what to do. Following Austin and Angle around like a lost puppy.

Why didn't Buff go to TNA? He made a few appearances but never really had a run there.

I never understood the whole, Bagwell’s mother controversy. It doesn’t make sense that she would call the WWE on behalf of her son - I mean come on. I always found Bagwell to be an entertaining performer and he seemed like he would be a good fit for the WWE. It does seem like he had a lot of enemies in WWE management.

I was there in the stadium on April 9th 1994 in St maarten. That's where I'm from. You guys had a match with the nasty boys

Say about Buff what you will, he may not have been a Bret Hart or a Shawn Michaels on a technical level, but he was entertaining as hell, and over with the WCW audience. His time with Scott Steiner, both as partners and rivals, resulted in some of the best and most memorable moments of WCW's history, and if WWE had not spent the past 19 years burying WCW these segments would have been just as iconic as DX's antics today. It seems the only facet of WCW that WWE has not tried to bury is the NWO, but only because that was simply too big to bury, so Vince decided to try and profit from it, and revive it several times. The fact that Vince bought WCW only to run it further into the ground shows you what a spiteful psychopath the man is.

I saw that Legends round table that he’s talking about and he’s right JR did buried him, they all did to basically anyone who didn’t kiss Vince’s ass and wasn’t their creation

I want to hear this God guy's side of the story

$175K a year and I have to sell everything....lmbo!!!!

The Time Warner/aol executives where the real Disaster for WCW... they aren't everyday, level headed, blue collar people. They despise the culture of wrestling and all the fans that are part of it and think its a national disgrace, fit only for the low class and the ignorant. The only reason they sold WCW only to Vince was with the condition that the company was to be totally liquidized, which Vince had NO problem doing. There was even a falling out with Shane over this because he thought he was going to be given the permission to run it and thought WCW being out of the picture was going to be bad overall for WWE...which he was right....

Buff the stuff... one of wcws best in my opinion... next to booker t.. life long wwe. Or Wwf fan .. but they missed out not keeping buff imagine the history he coulda made

That must be a fucking insane contract WWE has if they can shitcan you after a week and not have to pay you anything. I mean god damn. Vince buys WCW with Buff having two months left. Buff accepts a new contract for way less, then says 'you don't even have to pay the last two months (buy-out) and then they shit can him a few days later? How the hell? I mean, you make the guy take a pay cut, then you get a crazy bonus by not actually having to pay for his buy-out screwing the guy out of 60~80k, fire him a few days later. That's just insane to me.

His voice somewhat reminds me of Jamie Dundee's.

He was a bit unlucky; the roster was jam packed so the WWE didn’t need him and he didn’t really have anywhere else to go. The timing of the wcw buyout didn’t work out for him either

I know why WCW went under. Secretly Vince worked for AOL lol

Truth probably is, he was fired because he was on drugs, steroids, and was a "WCW guy"

Buff was insanely entertaining. Thank you for everything, you always had the stuff!

Buff should have been world champion. The. Whole mom thing is bullshit

Hear They fired a Buff Bagwell because he refers to himself as A Buff Bagwell

lmfao this shoot interview is so much different from the one he did in 2001 here hes angry and bitter asf,i dont blame him though

I like JR but he acts as though he was ALWAYS the innocent, well meaning person in every single issue that's talked about...in the wrestling industry that seems impossible.

Does Buff Bagwell know he ruined his own career by wearing those hats.

I love Buff Bagwell he belittled Jim

I stopped watching right at the beginning when he said WWE made no promises to him. Buff was OK but he was a one trick pony, not megastar material. Particularly not at that time when WWF had a stacked roster.

💯 Real Problem Is Buff Bagwell Is A Delusional Narcissist Cuz Honestly He Was Not A Big Wrestling Star Like He Keeps Trying 2 Convince Himself And Lots Of Others He Needs To Accept That He Was Just A Bright Light On Top Of Mid Card

Great Interview, I’ve always been indifferent to Buff as a person but always thought he had great ring skills but after this interview I definitely respect him more as a person. Some of his choices (like em or not) make a lot of sense now and honestly no one can judge how someone makes a living as long as they aren’t hurting anyone. In my humble opinion he sounds truthful in most of what he’s saying.

Wow Bagwell was making 750k a year with all expenses paid? And in 1995 Bret Hart was the 450k WWF champion and paid for his own travel expenses! All the WWF guys paid their own expenses. Wow Hall and Nash really did change the business. Bret was making 450k as the champion and Hall aka Razor got an offer from Bischoff for 1.2 mil and had a clause in his contract that if WCW hired anyone for more than 1.2 (Nash) then Hall would get paid the same as him Dang no wonder Vince won and Yes Turner lost. Those wce guys were getting paid!!!

*WCW 1990's changed wrestling forever and was also the last of the good days before it all died*

I remember when i heard Buff got canned from WWE. My first thought was that he wouldn't have any trouble finding work as a wrestler elsewhere- but he did. As far as Jim Ross goes, there was something really disturbing about him. When doing commentary on Dr. Death Steve Williams, his commentary, was boardering on manlove. Years later, JRs commentary on Stone Cold Steve Austin was boarderlining on the same kind of manlove. What makes this disturbing is that Austins real name is Steve Williams. Makes you wonder about JR

Yea the mid carders made way to much money

This guy arrogance is astonishing if he felt this way while during this interview I can't imagine how arrogant he was in wwe. Funny thing is his career flatlined After wwe I mean he didn't put any work in afterwards no TNA, New Japan wrestling, all Japan wrestling, CMLL, AAA or Ring of honor. If he was as great as he said he was then you would have seen him all over the world but nope its JIM Ross's fault. If you truly were at the prime of your life then you should have put the work in the other wrestling company to get WWE attention look what AJ Styles did but nope it's Jim's fault oh please wcw ruined your life paying you $750,000 and making you believe that you were one of the big stars. If you truly were one the big stars of wcw maybe that's why they went out of business. My buff move on forgive jim

I've never liked Jim Ross. I can read people real well and it's stuff like this that proves it lol

If this is 2016 Buff is 46 here, he could had easily wrestled up to 2010-2012 and had good matches with Cena.

Jindrak and O'Hare were the tag champs at the time, not lugar and bagwell.

They waterdown DDP to with the stupid undertaker story. And turned him heel. That is so spiteful from WWE. The only people they treated decent from WCW was Booker and Rey & Goldberg when he joined. And below they Shane Helms & Billy Gunn partner from Smackdown

poor buff lol the guy had 0 self awareness.. I cried laughing when he was like"I was that nice to ask them how they want me to leave the building after they fired me"...sir...they did not give 2 shits how tf you left lol no employer does. Especially an employer who thinks you have a bad attitude and are too big for your britches...personally I think his mom did call. I don't think that's why he got fired, I think that contributed to the fact that they already were souring on him. It's kinda sad that he seems to have 0 personal accountability for how he contributed to the consistent narrative a lot of other guys have about him being a pain in the ass to work with. Even that ? he posed to Johnny Ace and that convo he had with Jim Ross when he would call every few months cuz "they told me to call them back" shows he had absolutely no self awareness. It seems like he really wanted to be there and its a shame the negative experiences he had with the WWE and their staff took such a toll on his life. They should've at least been honest with him about why they didn't want him there so he could have some closure but he wasn't one of their guys so I'm sure they didn't feel like they owed him that

I know Buff had/has his issues, but i think he was on the right side of this conflict with WWE. He seems to be genuinely telling it as it happened. I hope he has enjoyed watching Vince's Karma returning.

I had to go back and watch the match there was nothing wrong with it, a part from one botched spot but it was okay, the crowd wasn't into it because it was WCW themed with two WCW guys

I like Marcus, but it is so hard to tell when he is lying or telling the truth because he lies so damn much. He literally said that military members would touch his picture before going out on the field for combat. 😆😆 What kind of grown man touches a picture of a wrestler, a mid-carder at that, for inspiration to go fight a war?

It’s so shitty a guy like Buff couldn’t catch a break in WWE. It’s really sad to see how much that effected his life.

Vince Russo definitely sunk the WCW. I remember saying WHY is this guy here ? And watching it sink deeper week after week... sad

I watched the match and it looked fine, but the fans were pro WWF fans, and didn't want to accept WCW guys wrestling no matter how the match went.

So pretty much Buff buried himself when he turned down Vince's offer six months prior to the fall of WCW eh?

So....during this meeting w/ Vince, Ace, Ross...why didn't he ask the reason for getting released

Not excusing the crappy match, but anyone who thinks wwe employees didn't try and sabotage wc w guys are delusional. Wwe agents don't just forget to go over main event matches lol. Come on

Thank you for uploading and sharing, one of my favorite wrestlers

The thing that hurt wrestling the most in the last 25 years has been WCW folding up. I had hopes for AEW but Tony Khan obviously doesn’t know what he’s doing. He has almost as much talent as WCW had and he has no clue how to get them over and people to care.

man wwe could have done a lot with buff

I love listening to Buff "Bullshit" Bagwell. 🤣

Does anyone else remember when he was Marcus Bagwell in WCW with the red white and blue pants? He always struggled to win and often lost much like his tag team partner Scotty Riggs, the Armstrong tag team, Alex Wright, Hardwork Bobby Walker, the Public Enemy tag team, Johnny B. Badd, and Hacksaw Jim Duggan? They were always incapacitated by a "face pull" sort of move where they eyes seem to be temporarily damaged, every time they did an elbow/collar tie up in the middle of the match against the heel, where the heel would then work them over.

WWE sucks

He's right about Booker. WWE needed and wanted more Black athletes and Booker was the best around and fitted what they wanted to a tee. He was always going to have a shot up there.