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#Post#: 20655--------------------------------------------------
Buff Bagwell Interview Meeting With TNA This Year, nWo, breaking
his neck & more
DIR By: 01332tnafan
Date: November 12, 2013, 4:20 pm
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Right oh guys and girls this interview is with former WCW star
Buff Bagwell. He talks about Hogan and Eric Bischoff wanting to
bring him in to TNA and about them wanting him to be in the new
MEM or aces and 8s.. Check out the following bits from the
Intervew .. Oh and remember to have your say
On TNA and his talks with Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff this past
summer:
“I went down to the Burnett Center when they were here; I just
wanted them to see me. I called Eric and said ‘do you mind if I
come down to see you guys at TNA,’ he said, sure, come on down.
So, I walk in the back…looking like I’m looking, looking like
Buff Bagwell again…I walk in and Hulk Hogan walks all the way
over to me and I feel eyes burning holes in me, and Hulk walks
up and goes to me, ‘why are you not working for us?’…I said,
‘well, that’s kind of why I am here’…He said, ‘Dude, you’re one
of the only few guys left that we could bring in and not have
any heat, and he didn’t realize what he had said. I said, ‘Do
you know why that is?…Because I don’t have any friends, he
started laughing and he said, ‘you know, you’re right…if we
brought in you, nobody would complain about it. I said it’s
because I don’t have any friends in the business, I have a few
friends, but none that would get heat for it. So he said, dude,
who has got your number? I said, Eric Bischoff has got my
number, so I got texts on my phone right now, that I could send
you…Eric Bischoff texted me, and he was excited, and I was
excited…then the Main Event Mafia thing started happening, I
thought I’d fit into that or Aces and Eights possibly and I have
heard nothing and they knew exactly where I am at and exactly
how to get in touch with me…Eric was saying positive things…I
don’t get it…just let me go out and be over again, I can be the
biggest heel or the biggest babyface if they would just let me,
but they won’t let me and I don’t know why.”
On his brief run in WWE
: “I was the first match of the Invasion…why would they put
Booker T. versus Buff Bagwell in Tacoma, Washington…we’re main
event on Raw…and it ain’t good. They could wait seven days and
put this in Atlanta…instead we got booed out of the building in
Tacoma, Washington and we had a bad match, double whammy, you
know…If you’re asking me, they already knew that they were done
with WCW, they just were gonna make us the sacrificial lambs to
end it…all they had to do was wait a week and Booker T and Buff
Bagwell get over in Atlanta, instead we got buried in
Tacoma…they had a gold mine with WCW, forget Buff, they had a
gold mine…Sting, Luger against the Rock, Stone Cold, it was
endless…you could’ve gone on and on with that for wrestling
fans, for wrestlers, you could’ve gone on and on, but instead
they just beat us all and sent us home.”
On his WWE release: “
They waited to fire me in Atlanta, why even make me come down
there? Make me drive down to Phillips Arena to fire, my god, how
brutal is that? I don’t know if they hadn’t figured it out
totally or what, I think they had…I think they already knew they
were done with us and were gonna put us on the shelf and they
did so.”
On the backstage scene in WCW during their final year in
business
: “It was absolute mayhem, it was just a bad train wreck that
nobody could fix when Russo came in…Russo had everybody going in
different directions and then they figured out that Russo didn’t
know what he was doing and they bought Bischoff back, and then
they tried getting Bischoff and Russo to work together…Bischoff
had his guys…and Russo had his guys…and you could always tell
who was running things by who was getting pushed…I got to
visualize it all when it went down and there was just nobody
that was gonna fix it.”
On returning from a broken neck as a heel instead of a babyface
in 1998: “
It was a gigantic deal, they could’ve made me the next biggest
babyface in the world, dude, I had 50,000 letters sent to me in
the hospital, I had Desert Storm guys would touch my picture
before they went out to battle…I was over, big time…they
could’ve made me the next biggest superstar, instead they turned
me heel and the people didn’t like it, it burned them. My
parents were physically upset about it…I knew what they were
doing was wrong, but …they pay my bills, I can’t tell Eric,
‘hey, Eric, I’m not gonna do that,’ but it was Eric’s idea and
he wanted to turn me heel and basically it took a crap on 50,000
people that were praying for me.”
On joining the nWo and becoming “Buff” Bagwell:
“Kevin Nash is the first one to speak up for me. Eric Bischoff
was not a big fan of mine at first, he kind of didn’t like
me…Eric wasn’t with it at all, he said I don’t get it, you all
are crazy…in Salisbury, we had a Nitro and they had me come out
and join the now and it was a big deal, bro…on the flight home
we were trying to figure out a name …and of all people it was
Nick Patrick…he said what about Buff, and everybody just stopped
and went ‘that’s it, that’s perfect, so that was it Buff Bagwell
it was born, it was created and there it went.”
#Post#: 20660--------------------------------------------------
Re: Buff Bagwell Interview Meeting With TNA This Year, nWo,
breaking his neck & more
DIR By: SheriffLonestar
Date: November 12, 2013, 5:12 pm
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Well I know why he doesn't have any friends . . .
#Post#: 20668--------------------------------------------------
Re: Buff Bagwell Interview Meeting With TNA This Year, nWo,
breaking his neck & more
DIR By: tnafanforum
Date: November 13, 2013, 7:33 am
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I am so happy he did not come to tna , he is someone tna does
not need to bring in . Hogan and Eric have to much power when it
comes to bring in their 'friends' to tna .
#Post#: 20692--------------------------------------------------
Re: Buff Bagwell Interview Meeting With TNA This Year, nWo,
breaking his neck & more
DIR By: 01332tnafan
Date: November 14, 2013, 2:12 pm
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He was lucky to comeback after breaking his neck
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