1 00:00:07,126 --> 00:00:08,544 Look at me. You can't win, because 2 00:00:08,544 --> 00:00:12,923 I'm the one that's Buff! You are number two. 3 00:00:12,923 --> 00:00:16,177 I'm the man, look at it. Take your time. 4 00:00:16,177 --> 00:00:18,721 [narrator] Marcus Bagwell began his wrestling career 5 00:00:18,721 --> 00:00:20,139 as a handsome hero... 6 00:00:20,139 --> 00:00:21,265 Alright! 7 00:00:21,265 --> 00:00:23,809 A fan favourite for audiences to root for, 8 00:00:23,809 --> 00:00:26,520 but given the chance to become a villain. .. 9 00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:29,607 Buff Bagwell of the NWO! 10 00:00:29,607 --> 00:00:33,069 The vain and arrogant Buff Bagwell was born. 11 00:00:33,069 --> 00:00:35,780 The bigger I made it, the more exaggerated 12 00:00:35,780 --> 00:00:38,491 I made it, the better it got. 13 00:00:38,491 --> 00:00:41,535 He just turns up the volume on his own personality. 14 00:00:41,535 --> 00:00:45,706 Marcus, he's really a person to sit down and talk to. 15 00:00:45,706 --> 00:00:48,626 'Buff the Stuff' is an arrogant asshole. 16 00:00:48,626 --> 00:00:49,919 Wow, I look good. 17 00:00:49,919 --> 00:00:52,380 Working out, tanning, cars. 18 00:00:52,380 --> 00:00:53,381 Is this it? 19 00:00:53,381 --> 00:00:55,049 Girls. 20 00:00:55,049 --> 00:00:58,636 He's entertainingly obnoxious. 21 00:00:58,636 --> 00:00:59,929 [Chuckling] 22 00:00:59,929 --> 00:01:04,558 I love myself more than anybody I can think of. 23 00:01:04,558 --> 00:01:07,395 After his wealthy parents lost their fortune, 24 00:01:07,395 --> 00:01:10,231 Marcus turned to wrestling to recapture the lavish 25 00:01:10,231 --> 00:01:13,401 lifestyle of his childhood, and brought his whole family 26 00:01:13,401 --> 00:01:15,027 along for the ride. 27 00:01:15,027 --> 00:01:16,696 My mom and dad worked for me. 28 00:01:16,696 --> 00:01:18,572 -[Horn blaring] -Mama's back. 29 00:01:18,572 --> 00:01:20,408 -What's her first name? -Judy. 30 00:01:20,408 --> 00:01:23,411 She was like my mom, slash, secretary. 31 00:01:23,411 --> 00:01:24,954 There's probably so many stories out there, 32 00:01:24,954 --> 00:01:27,164 it's just... blow your mind. Blow your mind. 33 00:01:27,164 --> 00:01:29,291 It was dysfunctional, yes. 34 00:01:29,291 --> 00:01:31,043 Jerry Springer would just love to go to their house 35 00:01:31,043 --> 00:01:32,128 and hang out. 36 00:01:32,128 --> 00:01:33,212 [Gunshot] 37 00:01:33,212 --> 00:01:35,881 I come into the picture, WCW shuts down, 38 00:01:35,881 --> 00:01:38,926 and he goes off the deep end. 39 00:01:38,926 --> 00:01:41,137 The combination of injuries. .. 40 00:01:41,137 --> 00:01:42,221 -Oh my goodness. -Oh! 41 00:01:42,221 --> 00:01:44,348 ...and substance abuse, 42 00:01:44,348 --> 00:01:47,518 sent Marcus' career into a nosedive. 43 00:01:47,518 --> 00:01:50,062 Desperate to maintain his lifestyle, 44 00:01:50,062 --> 00:01:51,772 he boldly ventured into a 45 00:01:51,772 --> 00:01:54,233 controversial new profession. 46 00:01:54,233 --> 00:01:57,027 I have heard the rumour that Marc was a male whore. 47 00:01:57,027 --> 00:01:59,405 When Gigolos happened, 48 00:01:59,405 --> 00:02:01,991 that hurt me to my soul. 49 00:02:01,991 --> 00:02:06,078 I was the best functioning addict in the world, 50 00:02:06,078 --> 00:02:07,705 until I wasn't. 51 00:02:07,705 --> 00:02:10,332 I thought to myself, I'm not going to be shocked when 52 00:02:10,332 --> 00:02:13,043 somebody calls me and tells me Marc has passed. 53 00:02:13,043 --> 00:02:16,005 He achieved so much so fast, 54 00:02:16,005 --> 00:02:18,382 and he fell just as fast. 55 00:02:18,382 --> 00:02:22,678 ♪ 56 00:02:22,678 --> 00:02:26,265 ♪ 57 00:02:29,477 --> 00:02:31,270 So this is my mother's office and 58 00:02:31,270 --> 00:02:34,565 it's full of Bagwell memories. 59 00:02:34,565 --> 00:02:37,109 My wrestling career, my dad's racing. 60 00:02:37,109 --> 00:02:38,611 Right here is Rookie of the Year, 61 00:02:38,611 --> 00:02:40,863 and up there is my Tag Team of the Year. 62 00:02:40,863 --> 00:02:44,825 This is just memories that were spread out throughout 63 00:02:44,825 --> 00:02:49,121 decades, and she got 'em all into one room. 64 00:02:49,121 --> 00:02:50,706 You know, she did all of this, this is all 65 00:02:50,706 --> 00:02:52,708 because of the way Judy Bagwell was. 66 00:02:52,708 --> 00:02:57,087 The organization, the, the drive. 67 00:02:57,087 --> 00:02:59,048 Wow. 68 00:03:05,054 --> 00:03:07,556 Where'd it go, man? 69 00:03:07,556 --> 00:03:09,475 ♪ 70 00:03:09,475 --> 00:03:12,520 Our family, we were told from a very young age 71 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:14,104 that we were special. 72 00:03:14,104 --> 00:03:17,233 It was just known that we were 73 00:03:17,233 --> 00:03:18,526 going to be somebody. 74 00:03:18,526 --> 00:03:21,737 ♪ 75 00:03:21,737 --> 00:03:23,614 Hey, I'm Marcus Alexander Bagwell, 76 00:03:23,614 --> 00:03:29,745 a.k.a. "Buff" Bagwell. I'm Buff and I'm the stuff. 77 00:03:29,745 --> 00:03:32,039 It's a freak thing that he got into wrestling. 78 00:03:32,039 --> 00:03:36,085 Marcus was a all-county football and baseball player. 79 00:03:36,085 --> 00:03:40,631 He wrestled a little bit, he wasn't on the wrestling team. 80 00:03:40,631 --> 00:03:42,675 I'm Steve Bagwell and 81 00:03:42,675 --> 00:03:45,386 I'm Marcus Bagwell's father. 82 00:03:45,386 --> 00:03:47,137 We had three sons. 83 00:03:47,137 --> 00:03:48,681 Marcus was the youngest. 84 00:03:48,681 --> 00:03:50,307 Marcus developed slower than they did, 85 00:03:50,307 --> 00:03:53,269 where he was so scared he wasn't gonna get big. 86 00:03:53,269 --> 00:03:54,603 But I kept telling him, 87 00:03:54,603 --> 00:03:56,522 "Work at it and you'll get there." You know? 88 00:03:56,522 --> 00:03:58,190 We tried to be like our father. 89 00:03:58,190 --> 00:04:01,193 You know, he was a very successful drag racer. 90 00:04:01,193 --> 00:04:02,736 Self-made millionaire. 91 00:04:02,736 --> 00:04:05,948 He just had a aura about himself of, of power. 92 00:04:05,948 --> 00:04:08,200 We were always watching sports. 93 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:10,369 We watched wrestling. 94 00:04:10,369 --> 00:04:13,330 It was definitely on our TV, but it wasn't even, like, 95 00:04:13,330 --> 00:04:16,709 an inkling of doing that for a business or a career. 96 00:04:21,046 --> 00:04:24,174 Back in the day, they were very known. 97 00:04:24,174 --> 00:04:26,677 They owned Southeastern Lumber. 98 00:04:26,677 --> 00:04:30,014 Everyone wanted to get their lumber there. 99 00:04:30,014 --> 00:04:31,807 This is Mark 'Slick' Johnson 100 00:04:31,807 --> 00:04:35,102 from WCW and TNA Wrestling. 101 00:04:35,102 --> 00:04:38,731 I've been friends with Marcus Bagwell for a long time. 102 00:04:38,731 --> 00:04:41,150 Probably known him since I was... 103 00:04:41,150 --> 00:04:43,235 18, 19. 104 00:04:43,235 --> 00:04:46,030 I don't think there was many people you met in Marietta 105 00:04:46,030 --> 00:04:48,574 that did not know who the Bangles were. 106 00:04:48,574 --> 00:04:50,159 My name is Tonya Bagwell, 107 00:04:50,159 --> 00:04:52,953 and I was Marc Bagwell's first wife. 108 00:04:52,953 --> 00:04:55,706 I was 18, he was 18... 109 00:04:55,706 --> 00:04:57,166 and we just hit it off, you know, 110 00:04:57,166 --> 00:04:58,792 it just fit like a glove. 111 00:04:58,792 --> 00:05:01,003 He's just a loving person. 112 00:05:01,003 --> 00:05:03,088 We all wanted to go over to Marc Bagwell's house. 113 00:05:03,088 --> 00:05:05,924 The guy had a pool room, a theatre room, 114 00:05:05,924 --> 00:05:08,218 a batting cage, a tennis court. 115 00:05:08,218 --> 00:05:12,848 His dad buys him a brand new Corvette at 15... 116 00:05:12,848 --> 00:05:15,851 and is able to drive it back and forth to school. 117 00:05:15,851 --> 00:05:18,854 I wanted him to have the things I didn't have, 118 00:05:18,854 --> 00:05:21,649 and I had the money to do it, so I did. 119 00:05:21,649 --> 00:05:23,359 We were spoiled rotten, 120 00:05:23,359 --> 00:05:25,152 but we were not spoiled brats. 121 00:05:25,152 --> 00:05:26,779 He didn't get away with nothing. 122 00:05:26,779 --> 00:05:28,197 He still got in trouble. 123 00:05:28,197 --> 00:05:30,240 His dad wasn't gonna raise a pussy. 124 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:33,661 If we did anything wrong, you got your ass whipped. 125 00:05:33,661 --> 00:05:35,079 My father whipped me once, 126 00:05:35,079 --> 00:05:37,915 my mother whipped me a thousand times. 127 00:05:37,915 --> 00:05:39,375 And we were scared of her. 128 00:05:39,375 --> 00:05:42,044 She was fearsome, for sure, and fearless. 129 00:05:42,044 --> 00:05:43,671 If she likes you, she likes you. 130 00:05:43,671 --> 00:05:44,672 If she don't, she don't. 131 00:05:44,672 --> 00:05:46,715 There was no in between with her. 132 00:05:46,715 --> 00:05:50,886 This is a woman that ran a 215 employee lumber yard. 133 00:05:50,886 --> 00:05:54,223 I've seen a hundred truck drivers walk in and think, 134 00:05:54,223 --> 00:05:56,100 "This lady's the boss?" 135 00:05:56,100 --> 00:05:58,352 And within about 2 minutes, you know, 136 00:05:58,352 --> 00:06:00,396 they knew who the boss was, and they were shutting up. 137 00:06:00,396 --> 00:06:02,314 Well, let me say this... 138 00:06:02,314 --> 00:06:05,609 you don't ---- with Judy Bagwell. 139 00:06:05,609 --> 00:06:07,986 She'll give you the shirt off her back, 140 00:06:07,986 --> 00:06:11,115 but she'll knock you down with the other hand. 141 00:06:11,115 --> 00:06:13,075 Steve's the same way. Steve's more calm, 142 00:06:13,075 --> 00:06:15,577 except when he loses a poker bet. 143 00:06:15,577 --> 00:06:18,747 Yeah, he had poker over there all the time. 144 00:06:18,747 --> 00:06:20,624 One time we're all up in Marc's room, 145 00:06:20,624 --> 00:06:24,002 and we just hear, "Goddamnit"! 146 00:06:24,002 --> 00:06:27,506 He lost, like, the main card bet. 147 00:06:27,506 --> 00:06:29,842 Goes and grabs the machine gun, 148 00:06:29,842 --> 00:06:32,261 and the front of his house, they have two doors. 149 00:06:32,261 --> 00:06:34,054 He kicks those two doors open, 150 00:06:34,054 --> 00:06:35,681 and there's geese out in the lake and finally 151 00:06:35,681 --> 00:06:37,766 he just unloads on 'em. 152 00:06:37,766 --> 00:06:39,143 [Gunshots] 153 00:06:39,143 --> 00:06:41,812 I hear- [Fluttering]- a machine gun going off. 154 00:06:41,812 --> 00:06:43,689 And so I'm thinking, "Oh my God, 155 00:06:43,689 --> 00:06:46,150 somebody's robbing us." Got my 45, I bridge it, 156 00:06:46,150 --> 00:06:48,193 put one in it, and by the time I get to the front door 157 00:06:48,193 --> 00:06:51,071 with my gun, it's my father is like Scarface. 158 00:06:51,071 --> 00:06:52,197 [Gunshots] 159 00:06:52,197 --> 00:06:53,741 Feathers are going everywhere. 160 00:06:53,741 --> 00:06:56,160 [Rolling tongue] 161 00:06:56,160 --> 00:06:59,079 ♪ 162 00:06:59,079 --> 00:07:03,208 So he emptied the clip, and I'm going, "Dad?" 163 00:07:03,208 --> 00:07:04,877 That's a true story. 164 00:07:04,877 --> 00:07:07,546 [Laughing] 165 00:07:07,546 --> 00:07:10,549 I just remember being in Marc's room and 166 00:07:10,549 --> 00:07:12,342 his dad would come up and he's like, 167 00:07:12,342 --> 00:07:14,011 "Alright, where are y'all going"? 168 00:07:14,011 --> 00:07:15,304 I said, "We're going to club, and we want to go, 169 00:07:15,304 --> 00:07:16,555 we're going here and we're going there." 170 00:07:16,555 --> 00:07:18,265 And he'd reach in his pocket, 171 00:07:18,265 --> 00:07:21,059 break out about five or six bags of cocaine. 172 00:07:21,059 --> 00:07:23,145 He said, "Here you go, boys. 173 00:07:23,145 --> 00:07:26,356 Y'all have fun tonight. Stay out of trouble." 174 00:07:26,356 --> 00:07:29,193 [Laughing] 175 00:07:29,193 --> 00:07:30,444 He just was scared we were gonna get hurt, 176 00:07:30,444 --> 00:07:32,488 and he knew where he was getting his from and 177 00:07:32,488 --> 00:07:34,740 felt better about helping us. 178 00:07:34,740 --> 00:07:37,326 That was crazy. 179 00:07:37,326 --> 00:07:39,745 Good times though, good times. 180 00:07:39,745 --> 00:07:41,538 ♪ 181 00:07:41,538 --> 00:07:43,999 As the Bagwell's business struggles, 182 00:07:43,999 --> 00:07:47,169 Judy reveals to her husband that the family's finances 183 00:07:47,169 --> 00:07:49,546 are in serious trouble. 184 00:07:49,546 --> 00:07:52,174 She'd gone out and got three or four loans, 185 00:07:52,174 --> 00:07:54,384 250 grand a piece. 186 00:07:54,384 --> 00:07:56,678 She convinced the bankers that she could pay this back 187 00:07:56,678 --> 00:08:00,516 and it'll all be okay. Well, it all went kaboom. 188 00:08:00,516 --> 00:08:02,142 I had enough money, I thought, 189 00:08:02,142 --> 00:08:05,604 to live the rest of my life, you know, and comfortably. 190 00:08:05,604 --> 00:08:07,105 I never would have dreamed it. 191 00:08:07,105 --> 00:08:08,565 You know, that it could happen. 192 00:08:08,565 --> 00:08:11,777 My father made it very clear that we were going broke, 193 00:08:11,777 --> 00:08:14,822 and the brothers were at their houses at this stage. 194 00:08:14,822 --> 00:08:18,116 So it was just me, my mom, and my dad at the house. 195 00:08:18,116 --> 00:08:20,160 But it was hard, hard times. 196 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:22,287 I mean, they were fighting all the time, and... 197 00:08:22,287 --> 00:08:24,331 it was just, things were, things were, 198 00:08:24,331 --> 00:08:25,916 things were getting ready to explode. 199 00:08:25,916 --> 00:08:29,294 You could just feel it. 200 00:08:29,294 --> 00:08:31,797 Basically, the arguments just got worse and worse. 201 00:08:31,797 --> 00:08:33,882 My wife, Judy, went out the door, 202 00:08:33,882 --> 00:08:36,635 got in one of our vehicles and fixin' to leave, and 203 00:08:36,635 --> 00:08:39,012 I followed her out and I said, "Where are you going"? 204 00:08:39,012 --> 00:08:40,389 She said, "I'm leaving." I said, 205 00:08:40,389 --> 00:08:43,684 "Not in my car you're not." And I said, 206 00:08:43,684 --> 00:08:46,061 "If you try to, I'll shoot the tire." 207 00:08:46,061 --> 00:08:48,730 I'm upstairs and I hear my mom. 208 00:08:48,730 --> 00:08:50,482 "Marc! Marc! Help me! Help me"! 209 00:08:50,482 --> 00:08:53,861 You know? And I go running downstairs, you know. 210 00:08:53,861 --> 00:08:56,280 We've been going through shit, now he's beating up mom, 211 00:08:56,280 --> 00:08:58,156 and I'm trying to solve that problem, 212 00:08:58,156 --> 00:09:01,243 and I'm just flipped as well, you know? 213 00:09:01,243 --> 00:09:04,830 And Marc said, "Dad, back off of Mom." 214 00:09:04,830 --> 00:09:07,457 And I saw a gun in his hand. 215 00:09:07,457 --> 00:09:10,210 I said, "What are you doing with a gun"? 216 00:09:10,210 --> 00:09:13,422 He said, "I just want you to back off Mom." You know? 217 00:09:13,422 --> 00:09:16,174 And I said, "You'd shoot me"? 218 00:09:16,174 --> 00:09:18,969 He said, "No, sir, unless I have to." 219 00:09:18,969 --> 00:09:21,847 And I always kept a handgun 220 00:09:21,847 --> 00:09:24,850 on top of the refrigerator. 221 00:09:24,850 --> 00:09:27,436 He- [exhaling]- he bolted. 222 00:09:27,436 --> 00:09:30,314 Right for the refrigerator. 223 00:09:30,314 --> 00:09:31,940 So, as soon as he got there, 224 00:09:31,940 --> 00:09:34,735 we followed him into the kitchen. 225 00:09:34,735 --> 00:09:36,820 Now he's got a gun on me. 226 00:09:36,820 --> 00:09:38,614 He's like, "Come on, big man. Come on." 227 00:09:38,614 --> 00:09:40,741 I go, "Put the gun down, man." I said, 228 00:09:40,741 --> 00:09:41,909 "You're just gonna end up killing one of us and 229 00:09:41,909 --> 00:09:43,160 going to prison, bro. 230 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:45,287 This ain't gonna do nothing." You know? 231 00:09:45,287 --> 00:09:47,873 Of course I was mad at that time and... 232 00:09:47,873 --> 00:09:50,125 I just kept on and on. 233 00:09:50,125 --> 00:09:53,211 First thing I knew, he was popping caps at me. 234 00:09:53,211 --> 00:09:55,214 [Gunshots] 235 00:09:55,214 --> 00:09:57,674 My plan was to kill my father. 236 00:09:57,674 --> 00:09:59,927 The first shot probably would have killed me, 237 00:09:59,927 --> 00:10:01,845 because it would have hit right there. 238 00:10:01,845 --> 00:10:05,390 But as I could see him fixin' to shoot, 239 00:10:05,390 --> 00:10:06,725 I put my hand right there. 240 00:10:06,725 --> 00:10:08,852 ♪ 241 00:10:08,852 --> 00:10:12,064 And it took an inch and a half of this little bone 242 00:10:12,064 --> 00:10:14,858 right here, seeing two scars there? 243 00:10:14,858 --> 00:10:16,902 And then he shot four more times. 244 00:10:16,902 --> 00:10:20,197 I could hear the bullets zinging by my head. 245 00:10:20,197 --> 00:10:21,949 it was something that I just couldn't believe 246 00:10:21,949 --> 00:10:23,283 was happening, you know? 247 00:10:23,283 --> 00:10:30,290 [Gunshots] 248 00:10:30,290 --> 00:10:32,584 'Cause Marc and I had been so close all our lives 249 00:10:32,584 --> 00:10:36,213 since he was born. 250 00:10:36,213 --> 00:10:38,340 [Gunshot] 251 00:10:38,340 --> 00:10:40,926 But he was tight with his mom, too. You know? 252 00:10:44,930 --> 00:10:46,390 Oh yeah, yeah. 253 00:10:46,390 --> 00:10:49,935 They had to take a, a bone graft off my hip and 254 00:10:49,935 --> 00:10:52,354 put it in my, in here to fill this hand. 255 00:10:52,354 --> 00:10:54,022 And, and they got, I got a silver plate there 256 00:10:54,022 --> 00:10:57,025 that holds it all together. 257 00:10:57,025 --> 00:10:59,319 My mom's like, "Please call your dad. 258 00:10:59,319 --> 00:11:01,238 Please call your dad." And I'm like, 259 00:11:01,238 --> 00:11:03,573 "Mom, I'm not calling him. You know, I don't feel bad. 260 00:11:03,573 --> 00:11:06,410 I'm not wrong. I don't, I got no re- no remorse at all." 261 00:11:09,329 --> 00:11:11,456 It was a little while before we did. 262 00:11:11,456 --> 00:11:13,083 Probably three or four months. 263 00:11:13,083 --> 00:11:14,668 He called me up. Dad calls me, 264 00:11:14,668 --> 00:11:17,212 and he goes, "Just want you to know, 265 00:11:17,212 --> 00:11:19,548 you're 100% right on what you did. 266 00:11:19,548 --> 00:11:20,716 You did nothing wrong. 267 00:11:20,716 --> 00:11:22,968 You're protecting your mom and your, and yourself." 268 00:11:22,968 --> 00:11:25,721 I told him it was all my fault, 100%. 269 00:11:25,721 --> 00:11:27,180 If I'd have backed off the whole thing 270 00:11:27,180 --> 00:11:28,932 wouldn't have happened, you know? 271 00:11:28,932 --> 00:11:30,350 We had a rough couple years, 272 00:11:30,350 --> 00:11:32,269 but we've been best friends ever since. 273 00:11:32,269 --> 00:11:34,938 ♪ 274 00:11:34,938 --> 00:11:37,482 With his parents no longer able to support him, 275 00:11:37,482 --> 00:11:39,735 Marcus moves out of the family home, 276 00:11:39,735 --> 00:11:42,321 marries his high school sweetheart, Tonya, 277 00:11:42,321 --> 00:11:44,990 and finds a whole new way to make a living. 278 00:11:44,990 --> 00:11:48,160 Marc was a male stripper right after high school. 279 00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:49,411 I wasn't ashamed of it all. 280 00:11:49,411 --> 00:11:51,872 I was, I was very happy to show my body off and 281 00:11:51,872 --> 00:11:54,458 make money with showing my body. 282 00:11:54,458 --> 00:11:58,211 We had just moved into Poplar Place Apartments 283 00:11:58,211 --> 00:12:00,672 and that's how he met Missy. 284 00:12:00,672 --> 00:12:04,384 I was looking for an apartment north of Atlanta, 285 00:12:04,384 --> 00:12:07,637 and we pull up and there's this hot guy in these, like, 286 00:12:07,637 --> 00:12:10,307 short shorts and a little tank top. 287 00:12:10,307 --> 00:12:12,350 And I was like, "Wherever he lives, 288 00:12:12,350 --> 00:12:15,270 I want to live by him." 289 00:12:15,270 --> 00:12:17,272 I'm Missy Hyatt, the First Lady of wrestling, 290 00:12:17,272 --> 00:12:20,233 and I discovered Buff Bagwell. 291 00:12:20,233 --> 00:12:21,693 I was in WCW. 292 00:12:21,693 --> 00:12:23,737 I was a manager for the Steiner brothers, 293 00:12:23,737 --> 00:12:26,823 'Hot Stuff' Eddie Gilbert, and then the Nasty Boys. 294 00:12:26,823 --> 00:12:29,743 But my main part was I was the first female 295 00:12:29,743 --> 00:12:31,328 to be an announcer. 296 00:12:31,328 --> 00:12:33,622 This is Missy Hyatt's second attempt to 297 00:12:33,622 --> 00:12:35,248 get a locker room interview. 298 00:12:35,248 --> 00:12:37,042 Marcus came up to me one day and he's like, 299 00:12:37,042 --> 00:12:39,169 "Hey Missy, my brother wants to be a wrestler." 300 00:12:39,169 --> 00:12:40,545 And I'm like, "Your brother"? 301 00:12:40,545 --> 00:12:41,922 I've never seen his brother. 302 00:12:41,922 --> 00:12:43,799 And I'm like, "Why don't you become a wrestler"? 303 00:12:43,799 --> 00:12:46,676 And I go, "Those guys don't make no money." 304 00:12:46,676 --> 00:12:48,595 And she goes, "Our lowest paid guy makes 305 00:12:48,595 --> 00:12:52,516 $100,000 a year." And I was like, "What"? 306 00:12:52,516 --> 00:12:55,769 So she found a guy named Steve 'The Brawler' Lawler, 307 00:12:55,769 --> 00:12:58,063 and he trained me. 308 00:12:58,063 --> 00:13:01,358 I was working at a club as a dancer, which I hated, 309 00:13:01,358 --> 00:13:05,445 but he couldn't work and still train and 310 00:13:05,445 --> 00:13:06,905 do all that in wrestling. 311 00:13:06,905 --> 00:13:09,741 So the deal was, if you work this short period of time, 312 00:13:09,741 --> 00:13:12,369 get me through, you know, this wrestling school 313 00:13:12,369 --> 00:13:13,829 when I get my first contract, 314 00:13:13,829 --> 00:13:15,956 you'll never have to work again. 315 00:13:15,956 --> 00:13:17,791 She supported me to get me into the business, 316 00:13:17,791 --> 00:13:19,709 and the catch was then I would take care of her 317 00:13:19,709 --> 00:13:21,211 from that point on. 318 00:13:21,211 --> 00:13:23,046 Cried every night coming home from work. 319 00:13:23,046 --> 00:13:25,465 I hated it, I hated it. 320 00:13:25,465 --> 00:13:27,425 I was going to do anything it took. 321 00:13:27,425 --> 00:13:30,387 And I dove into that and dedicated my life toward it, 322 00:13:30,387 --> 00:13:31,930 and it paid off. 323 00:13:39,146 --> 00:13:41,148 Training to become a professional wrestler, 324 00:13:41,148 --> 00:13:43,066 Marcus Bagwell dedicates himself 325 00:13:43,066 --> 00:13:44,860 to becoming a superstar. 326 00:13:44,860 --> 00:13:46,903 [Cheering] 327 00:13:46,903 --> 00:13:49,364 He started working on the indie circuit. 328 00:13:49,364 --> 00:13:51,908 I'm joined by The Handsome Stranger. 329 00:13:51,908 --> 00:13:53,118 And one day he was like, "Missy, 330 00:13:53,118 --> 00:13:54,244 you gotta see one of my matches." 331 00:13:54,244 --> 00:13:57,372 And, I watched his match, and I'm sitting there thinking, 332 00:13:57,372 --> 00:14:01,127 I'm like, "Oh my God, he is really good." 333 00:14:01,127 --> 00:14:03,129 This has only been like three months. 334 00:14:03,129 --> 00:14:06,340 And I'm like, "He's got timing, he looks great, 335 00:14:06,340 --> 00:14:10,511 he's got charisma." I mean, I was really impressed. 336 00:14:10,511 --> 00:14:12,847 Well, the women indeed love him. 337 00:14:12,847 --> 00:14:16,809 So I go to Mr. Jimsy Barnett, and I said, 338 00:14:16,809 --> 00:14:19,645 "Here's a tape." And I sat there, made him watch it. 339 00:14:19,645 --> 00:14:22,815 And he's like, "Oh, Missy, you should be a scout. 340 00:14:22,815 --> 00:14:24,817 This boy is fabboo." 341 00:14:24,817 --> 00:14:27,445 And I want to introduce to everyone out there 342 00:14:27,445 --> 00:14:31,115 the newest rookie sensation in WCW. 343 00:14:31,115 --> 00:14:32,575 Alright! 344 00:14:32,575 --> 00:14:35,494 With a successful two year run as a singles competitor, 345 00:14:35,494 --> 00:14:39,123 Marcus proves his talent to WCW and is put into 346 00:14:39,123 --> 00:14:42,001 a tag team with 2 Cold Scorpio. 347 00:14:42,001 --> 00:14:47,173 And me being more of a highflier with pretty boy... 348 00:14:47,173 --> 00:14:48,799 didn't really know how that was gonna work, 349 00:14:48,799 --> 00:14:51,719 you know, how it was gonna turn out. 350 00:14:51,719 --> 00:14:53,054 This is Charles Scaggs. 351 00:14:53,054 --> 00:14:56,057 Y'all all know me as 2 Cold Scorpio. 352 00:14:56,057 --> 00:14:59,936 I was very surprised how he was able to step up his game 353 00:14:59,936 --> 00:15:02,146 and keep up with me, so, you know. 354 00:15:02,146 --> 00:15:04,023 They put us together and we were Tag Team of the Year 355 00:15:04,023 --> 00:15:06,192 and World Champs that same year. 356 00:15:06,192 --> 00:15:09,111 For the Tag Team Champions of the World! 357 00:15:09,111 --> 00:15:11,239 And the fans loved him. 358 00:15:11,239 --> 00:15:13,407 You know, the women loved him. 359 00:15:13,407 --> 00:15:15,326 I was madly in love with Tonya. 360 00:15:15,326 --> 00:15:18,329 She was a great woman, and we had a great plan. 361 00:15:18,329 --> 00:15:20,957 The only thing we weren't quite ready for was for 362 00:15:20,957 --> 00:15:24,961 a 21 year old man to be, you know, 363 00:15:24,961 --> 00:15:27,380 women throwing theirself at him, I wasn't really ready... 364 00:15:27,380 --> 00:15:31,592 I thought I was ready for that, but I was not. 365 00:15:31,592 --> 00:15:34,220 And so, I cheated on Tonya. 366 00:15:34,220 --> 00:15:35,972 ♪ 367 00:15:35,972 --> 00:15:37,974 Doing all of that I did to just help him get in the 368 00:15:37,974 --> 00:15:40,142 business, and then things were supposed to be 369 00:15:40,142 --> 00:15:44,605 better after this, and now this happens. 370 00:15:44,605 --> 00:15:47,149 You know, I was hurt, extremely hurt. 371 00:15:47,149 --> 00:15:49,026 And, you know, it just... 372 00:15:49,026 --> 00:15:50,778 I just couldn't forgive him. 373 00:15:50,778 --> 00:15:52,738 ♪ 374 00:15:52,738 --> 00:15:54,824 As his marriage to Tonya ends, 375 00:15:54,824 --> 00:15:57,285 Marcus is slotted into a new tag team, 376 00:15:57,285 --> 00:15:59,203 Stars and Stripes. 377 00:15:59,203 --> 00:16:02,498 First, the challengers from Marietta, Georgia. 378 00:16:02,498 --> 00:16:05,126 Determined to reach the top at WCW, 379 00:16:05,126 --> 00:16:08,754 he's convinced that the key is to create the perfect body. 380 00:16:08,754 --> 00:16:10,506 We were living together at the time. 381 00:16:10,506 --> 00:16:12,216 And he said, "Man, I, I work my calves, 382 00:16:12,216 --> 00:16:14,260 I work my calves and they just will not grow." 383 00:16:14,260 --> 00:16:15,344 I said, "Well what are you gonna do about it"? 384 00:16:15,344 --> 00:16:16,721 He said, "I'm getting calf implants." 385 00:16:16,721 --> 00:16:18,264 I says, "I'm sorry, what"? 386 00:16:18,264 --> 00:16:21,100 He got 'em put in and they look fantastic. 387 00:16:21,100 --> 00:16:23,519 I mean, awesome. 388 00:16:23,519 --> 00:16:26,856 And then his leg started hurting. 389 00:16:26,856 --> 00:16:29,233 Every time he wanted to poop or piss, 390 00:16:29,233 --> 00:16:32,695 I had to take him to the bathroom on my back. 391 00:16:32,695 --> 00:16:35,323 'Cause he couldn't move his legs. 392 00:16:35,323 --> 00:16:38,242 And I'd have to put him on my back, 393 00:16:38,242 --> 00:16:41,162 I had to go down and sit him on the toilet and let him do 394 00:16:41,162 --> 00:16:46,083 his business, and then he'd wipe his ass, 395 00:16:46,083 --> 00:16:48,836 and then I'd go back, pick him back up, 396 00:16:48,836 --> 00:16:49,962 take him into the living room, 397 00:16:49,962 --> 00:16:50,963 back in his favourite chair. 398 00:16:50,963 --> 00:16:52,590 [Clapping] 399 00:16:52,590 --> 00:16:55,384 This went on for weeks 'cause he couldn't walk. 400 00:16:55,384 --> 00:17:00,097 Sure enough, his body's not accepting them. 401 00:17:00,097 --> 00:17:02,433 He had a fever, I knew we had a problem. 402 00:17:02,433 --> 00:17:04,310 I load him in the car and rushed him 403 00:17:04,310 --> 00:17:06,020 straight to the hospital. 404 00:17:06,020 --> 00:17:07,813 The doctor that came in to see him, said, 405 00:17:07,813 --> 00:17:09,982 "We've got less than 45 minutes to 406 00:17:09,982 --> 00:17:11,359 get those calves out." 407 00:17:11,359 --> 00:17:13,778 I asked him, "Is there any way I can keep 'em"? 408 00:17:13,778 --> 00:17:16,864 And, and he went, "Yeah, we can keep 'em if you want to 409 00:17:16,864 --> 00:17:18,324 cut your legs off." 410 00:17:18,324 --> 00:17:20,951 And I remember thinking, "Hm... 411 00:17:20,951 --> 00:17:23,037 cut my legs off or keep 'em." 412 00:17:23,037 --> 00:17:24,163 I swear I remember thinking, 413 00:17:24,163 --> 00:17:26,415 "How can I fix it where I can keep 'em"? 414 00:17:26,415 --> 00:17:28,292 So he has to have them taken out. 415 00:17:28,292 --> 00:17:30,461 So he still has them at home in the box. 416 00:17:30,461 --> 00:17:32,296 Without exaggerating or sound corny, 417 00:17:32,296 --> 00:17:34,256 it almost cost me my life. 418 00:17:34,256 --> 00:17:36,300 [Cheering] 419 00:17:36,300 --> 00:17:38,844 Even without his dream calf implants, 420 00:17:38,844 --> 00:17:42,056 Marcus' popularity with the female audience lands him in 421 00:17:42,056 --> 00:17:45,351 a new tag team that fully utilizes his good looks and 422 00:17:45,351 --> 00:17:47,395 muscular physique. 423 00:17:47,395 --> 00:17:51,148 It was not easy being that cheesy. 424 00:17:51,148 --> 00:17:53,275 I'm Scotty Riggs, WCW, 425 00:17:53,275 --> 00:17:54,985 ECW, professional wrestler. 426 00:17:54,985 --> 00:17:57,279 One half of the American Males. 427 00:17:57,279 --> 00:18:00,116 And we've got American Males taking it to. 428 00:18:00,116 --> 00:18:02,368 It doesn't get any better than the American Males. 429 00:18:02,368 --> 00:18:07,081 ♪ 430 00:18:07,081 --> 00:18:09,875 American Males, American Males. 431 00:18:09,875 --> 00:18:12,711 ♪ AMERICAN MALES, AMERICAN MALES, ♪ 432 00:18:12,711 --> 00:18:15,756 ♪ AMERICAN MALES, AMERICAN MALES. ♪ 433 00:18:15,756 --> 00:18:17,425 [Singing] American Males! 434 00:18:17,425 --> 00:18:19,093 American Males! 435 00:18:19,093 --> 00:18:21,679 ♪ AMERICAN MALES. ♪ 436 00:18:21,679 --> 00:18:22,972 ♪ 437 00:18:22,972 --> 00:18:25,349 I'm pissed off that you even brought up American Males 438 00:18:25,349 --> 00:18:26,684 'cause now that song is gonna be in my head 439 00:18:26,684 --> 00:18:28,936 'til tomorrow morning. 440 00:18:28,936 --> 00:18:31,147 I'm Eric Bischoff, former president of 441 00:18:31,147 --> 00:18:33,065 World Championship Wrestling. 442 00:18:33,065 --> 00:18:35,985 No I'm the highest ranking executive in WCW. 443 00:18:35,985 --> 00:18:38,237 The look is very, very important and probably 444 00:18:38,237 --> 00:18:40,364 even more so back in the, in the 90s 445 00:18:40,364 --> 00:18:42,032 when Marcus broke in. 446 00:18:42,032 --> 00:18:43,617 You know, Scotty Riggs, another young, 447 00:18:43,617 --> 00:18:46,704 very athletic, attractive, much like Marcus... 448 00:18:46,704 --> 00:18:48,956 we were appealing to a female demo. 449 00:18:48,956 --> 00:18:52,418 We were looking to shore up what was otherwise an 450 00:18:52,418 --> 00:18:54,753 almost completely male dominated audience. 451 00:18:54,753 --> 00:18:56,088 Girls loved it. 452 00:18:56,088 --> 00:18:58,340 [Cheering & screaming] 453 00:18:58,340 --> 00:19:00,593 The guys hated it, which made it even better for us. 454 00:19:02,887 --> 00:19:05,973 That was Erica. It didn't last very long. 455 00:19:05,973 --> 00:19:08,225 Then he had a third wife, that was Judy, 456 00:19:08,225 --> 00:19:09,560 another Judy Bagwell. 457 00:19:09,560 --> 00:19:10,853 I call them Judy Bagwell, the wife, 458 00:19:10,853 --> 00:19:12,438 and Judy Bagwell, the mother. 459 00:19:12,438 --> 00:19:14,190 And at the beginning, it was, 460 00:19:14,190 --> 00:19:17,026 it was, it was awesome. 461 00:19:17,026 --> 00:19:20,654 I'm Judy Bagwell, and I'm Marcus Bagwell's third wife. 462 00:19:20,654 --> 00:19:24,241 I was the top, I mean, he put me on top, right? 463 00:19:24,241 --> 00:19:26,118 Of course, Marc always comes first. 464 00:19:26,118 --> 00:19:27,495 [Laughing] 465 00:19:27,495 --> 00:19:29,038 Tag Team Champions! 466 00:19:29,038 --> 00:19:31,791 Having won multiple Tag Team Championships, 467 00:19:31,791 --> 00:19:34,752 Marcus takes the leap to join one of WCW's 468 00:19:34,752 --> 00:19:36,754 most legendary factions. 469 00:19:36,754 --> 00:19:40,633 Here's the NWO. 470 00:19:40,633 --> 00:19:42,551 Ready or not, here we come! 471 00:19:42,551 --> 00:19:44,595 NWO was already pretty hot. 472 00:19:44,595 --> 00:19:46,805 You know, we created this heel group, 473 00:19:46,805 --> 00:19:49,934 but the heel group was so freaking cool that 474 00:19:49,934 --> 00:19:52,603 people were actually cheering them. 475 00:19:52,603 --> 00:19:54,438 Nash came to me and said, "Look, do you, 476 00:19:54,438 --> 00:19:55,940 do you want to be in the NWO"? 477 00:19:55,940 --> 00:19:58,567 And it wasn't like I had to have a meeting with 478 00:19:58,567 --> 00:19:59,902 Scotty Riggs over this. 479 00:19:59,902 --> 00:20:02,738 I mean, of course I want to be in the NWO. 480 00:20:02,738 --> 00:20:04,406 What is this all about? 481 00:20:04,406 --> 00:20:07,117 I don't know what Bagwell and Riggs is thinking about. 482 00:20:07,117 --> 00:20:09,620 I didn't want to be a dick and go, "Man, this sucks. 483 00:20:09,620 --> 00:20:11,914 I want to go the NWO." You know, that type thing, 484 00:20:11,914 --> 00:20:14,250 and so I just kinda went, "Alright, it's cool. 485 00:20:14,250 --> 00:20:18,212 Let's make it work for you, brother." And we did. 486 00:20:18,212 --> 00:20:20,256 -Hey! -Attacked by Bagwell! 487 00:20:20,256 --> 00:20:23,342 I'm in the ring with all of the superstars. 488 00:20:23,342 --> 00:20:26,262 I mean, it does not get any better than this. 489 00:20:26,262 --> 00:20:27,638 I mean, it's just... 490 00:20:27,638 --> 00:20:30,808 I have made it, man. This is it, man, this is it. 491 00:20:30,808 --> 00:20:34,228 Changed my whole career, money, life, everything. 492 00:20:34,228 --> 00:20:35,896 When he became Buff the Stuff, it's like, 493 00:20:35,896 --> 00:20:38,357 "Who the ---- this mother----er think he is now"? 494 00:20:38,357 --> 00:20:41,277 Buff was Marcus times a million. 495 00:20:41,277 --> 00:20:42,695 He the type of mother----er that I want to fight. 496 00:20:42,695 --> 00:20:43,988 That's the type of mother----er I want to fight, 497 00:20:43,988 --> 00:20:45,239 I want to whoop his ass. 498 00:20:45,239 --> 00:20:47,449 So I think that kind of gave him more heat, 499 00:20:47,449 --> 00:20:49,410 but he pulled it off. 500 00:20:49,410 --> 00:20:52,913 I had always thought that Marc and I would 501 00:20:52,913 --> 00:20:54,623 eventually get back together. 502 00:20:54,623 --> 00:20:57,918 And when I saw the NWO I remember 503 00:20:57,918 --> 00:21:00,087 saying to myself, "Now we're over." 504 00:21:00,087 --> 00:21:03,048 That's what that, that is what that says to me. 505 00:21:03,048 --> 00:21:07,636 Now we're over, because I could see him living out 506 00:21:07,636 --> 00:21:10,431 that character and it engulfed him. 507 00:21:10,431 --> 00:21:12,057 It wasn't an every now and then thing. 508 00:21:12,057 --> 00:21:13,434 He was living it out. 509 00:21:16,478 --> 00:21:18,355 My mom came up with the idea, just open up an 510 00:21:18,355 --> 00:21:21,150 incorporation, so we called it 'The Real Buff Inc.' 511 00:21:21,150 --> 00:21:24,236 I hired the whole family and I paid them a salary. 512 00:21:24,236 --> 00:21:26,322 And so out of that, it was, you know, 513 00:21:26,322 --> 00:21:27,823 from taking me to the airport, 514 00:21:27,823 --> 00:21:29,450 to making sure my house was clean, 515 00:21:29,450 --> 00:21:32,828 to paying my bills. 516 00:21:32,828 --> 00:21:36,081 One time I come home, and I see Marc's mom's car 517 00:21:36,081 --> 00:21:38,417 is there, and I walk in his room, 518 00:21:38,417 --> 00:21:40,336 and he's got a big old bathroom and 519 00:21:40,336 --> 00:21:44,715 he's in a big garden tub butt naked, 520 00:21:44,715 --> 00:21:49,428 and his mom is behind him with the skin of his dick 521 00:21:49,428 --> 00:21:52,723 pulled up behind his balls and she's shaving 522 00:21:52,723 --> 00:21:56,393 his balls for him. He's on all fours and goes, 523 00:21:56,393 --> 00:21:58,145 "Oh, hey, bud, what's up"? 524 00:21:58,145 --> 00:22:00,147 Even Judy, as she's shaving his balls she goes, 525 00:22:00,147 --> 00:22:01,690 "Hey, Marc, how you been doing? 526 00:22:01,690 --> 00:22:02,983 Is everything okay"? 527 00:22:02,983 --> 00:22:05,986 I'm like, "No." And I'm going, 528 00:22:05,986 --> 00:22:09,406 Now I've seen it all. You people are sick." 529 00:22:09,406 --> 00:22:11,492 Then I walked right, right out of the room. 530 00:22:11,492 --> 00:22:13,994 [Laughing] They don't care. 531 00:22:13,994 --> 00:22:16,288 She's gonna help Marc out in any way she can. 532 00:22:16,288 --> 00:22:18,207 If she needs to shave his balls, 533 00:22:18,207 --> 00:22:21,794 then she's shaving his balls. 534 00:22:21,794 --> 00:22:24,838 Using his newfound stardom to pursue other avenues 535 00:22:24,838 --> 00:22:27,758 in entertainment, Marcus takes leading roles in a 536 00:22:27,758 --> 00:22:30,302 number of straight to video action movies. 537 00:22:30,302 --> 00:22:32,054 [Gunshots] 538 00:22:33,305 --> 00:22:36,100 [Grunting] 539 00:22:36,100 --> 00:22:39,144 I was familiar with at least one of Marcus' movies. 540 00:22:39,144 --> 00:22:41,939 Marcus needed some time off to, to, to, to do that movie, 541 00:22:41,939 --> 00:22:44,650 and I had to approve that. 542 00:22:44,650 --> 00:22:47,069 [Indistinct shouting] 543 00:22:47,069 --> 00:22:47,903 Ragh! 544 00:22:49,571 --> 00:22:51,824 No, I just, I never did see that movie. 545 00:22:51,824 --> 00:22:53,158 I don't know why I missed it. 546 00:22:53,158 --> 00:22:54,702 [Laughing] 547 00:22:54,702 --> 00:22:58,330 He said you had a certain flair for the absurd. 548 00:22:58,330 --> 00:23:00,541 Bless his heart. 549 00:23:00,541 --> 00:23:02,626 He tried. 550 00:23:02,626 --> 00:23:03,961 NWO, here they come. 551 00:23:03,961 --> 00:23:06,714 Still riding high as a member of the NWO, 552 00:23:06,714 --> 00:23:09,633 in April of 1998, a routine match 553 00:23:09,633 --> 00:23:13,262 on WCW Thunder goes dangerously wrong. 554 00:23:13,262 --> 00:23:14,805 The finish of the match was, you know, 555 00:23:14,805 --> 00:23:17,516 Rick was gonna hit me with a Bulldog, go for the cover, 556 00:23:17,516 --> 00:23:20,102 but when he does, he misses me. 557 00:23:20,102 --> 00:23:22,229 And when he misses me with the Bulldog, 558 00:23:22,229 --> 00:23:26,150 I hit him in his back and my neck goes that way. 559 00:23:26,150 --> 00:23:28,819 And when your neck goes that way, it can't go very far. 560 00:23:28,819 --> 00:23:30,821 So wham, it hit. 561 00:23:30,821 --> 00:23:32,948 -Oh my goodness. -Oh! 562 00:23:32,948 --> 00:23:35,993 And when it did, it bruised my spinal cord and 563 00:23:35,993 --> 00:23:37,911 caused me to be paralyzed. 564 00:23:37,911 --> 00:23:39,747 Buff Bagwell apparently is severely hurt here. 565 00:23:43,041 --> 00:23:46,503 Everything I'd worked for, it's over. 566 00:23:46,503 --> 00:23:49,590 ♪ 567 00:23:53,927 --> 00:23:55,929 At the peak of his wrestling career, 568 00:23:55,929 --> 00:23:58,223 Buff Bagwell suffers an in-ring accident 569 00:23:58,223 --> 00:24:00,350 that leaves him with a broken neck and 570 00:24:00,350 --> 00:24:02,102 an uncertain future. 571 00:24:02,102 --> 00:24:03,979 That, that, that's, that's, that's a horrible scene. 572 00:24:03,979 --> 00:24:05,773 I was at a friend's house, and we were watching 573 00:24:05,773 --> 00:24:08,567 the show, and I saw that happen, 574 00:24:08,567 --> 00:24:09,777 and we all were like, 575 00:24:09,777 --> 00:24:12,070 "Wait, was that part of that act"? 576 00:24:12,070 --> 00:24:14,281 I thought, "Oh my God, something's not right." 577 00:24:14,281 --> 00:24:16,909 I mean, it was yeah, it was brutal. 578 00:24:16,909 --> 00:24:20,287 So the next three and a half hours is CAT scans, 579 00:24:20,287 --> 00:24:22,956 MRI's and all that. 580 00:24:22,956 --> 00:24:25,000 Three hours later, the doctor comes in and goes, 581 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:27,252 "Sit up." I'm like, "What"? 582 00:24:27,252 --> 00:24:29,963 And so I start trying to move a little bit and sitting up, 583 00:24:29,963 --> 00:24:32,049 and I feel totally normal. 584 00:24:32,049 --> 00:24:34,134 I go, "What happened"? 585 00:24:34,134 --> 00:24:36,762 He goes, "When you bruised your spinal cord and the 586 00:24:36,762 --> 00:24:38,722 swelling happens, your body thinks 587 00:24:38,722 --> 00:24:40,432 it's paralyzed, so it don't move. 588 00:24:40,432 --> 00:24:42,434 And then when the swelling goes down, 589 00:24:42,434 --> 00:24:45,312 you can move again." So I got two plates and 590 00:24:45,312 --> 00:24:47,439 eight screws in my neck through here. 591 00:24:49,316 --> 00:24:51,235 Broke my neck. 592 00:24:51,235 --> 00:24:54,655 His mother, I swear, she cried until I didn't think 593 00:24:54,655 --> 00:24:57,032 she could cry anymore, you know? 594 00:24:57,032 --> 00:24:58,450 I went to see him in the hospital. 595 00:24:58,450 --> 00:24:59,993 He looked terrible. 596 00:24:59,993 --> 00:25:02,204 I didn't think that he'd come back from that, honestly. 597 00:25:02,204 --> 00:25:04,540 But he did. 598 00:25:04,540 --> 00:25:06,291 -Oh look at this! -[Shouting] 599 00:25:06,291 --> 00:25:09,878 -Yeah! -It's Buff Bagwell! 600 00:25:09,878 --> 00:25:12,464 It was crazy. And actually, 601 00:25:12,464 --> 00:25:14,675 I was back on TV from breaking my neck 602 00:25:14,675 --> 00:25:16,176 in three months. 603 00:25:16,176 --> 00:25:18,595 To know that these people love me 604 00:25:18,595 --> 00:25:21,223 just as much as I love them. 605 00:25:21,223 --> 00:25:24,893 And God knows I love each and every fan out there. 606 00:25:24,893 --> 00:25:26,687 -[Cheering] -Listen to that. 607 00:25:26,687 --> 00:25:29,940 So for that three month mark to the ten month mark, 608 00:25:29,940 --> 00:25:32,985 I got back into great shape and was 609 00:25:32,985 --> 00:25:35,112 Scott Steiner's manager. 610 00:25:35,112 --> 00:25:37,197 Returning to the spotlight, 611 00:25:37,197 --> 00:25:39,867 Buff turns to drugs to endure the pain 612 00:25:39,867 --> 00:25:43,078 that comes with the wrestling lifestyle. 613 00:25:43,078 --> 00:25:46,582 You take, you know, two Vicodins, two Somas, 614 00:25:46,582 --> 00:25:50,002 and then you come down and drink some beer and then 615 00:25:50,002 --> 00:25:53,297 you take two more kinds of pills that get you up, 616 00:25:53,297 --> 00:25:54,756 to go wrestle. 617 00:25:54,756 --> 00:25:56,717 And then you, you'll take another little combo 618 00:25:56,717 --> 00:25:57,968 to come back down. 619 00:25:57,968 --> 00:25:59,636 Muscle relaxers is what it is. 620 00:25:59,636 --> 00:26:01,221 It relaxes your muscles. 621 00:26:01,221 --> 00:26:03,599 You take too many and you cannot control 622 00:26:03,599 --> 00:26:06,768 walking, talking, nothing. 623 00:26:06,768 --> 00:26:09,104 I didn't like to be around Marc, because 624 00:26:09,104 --> 00:26:11,857 he kinda was not the Marc I grew up with, you know? 625 00:26:11,857 --> 00:26:14,651 I was out partying with all the other wrestlers. 626 00:26:14,651 --> 00:26:17,446 He was in the room with his pills having a good time. 627 00:26:17,446 --> 00:26:20,532 I remember being on a plane, me and Marc flying to Europe 628 00:26:20,532 --> 00:26:24,161 or whatever, and him being, laying beside me and 629 00:26:24,161 --> 00:26:25,954 sleeping, but then he'd start doing 630 00:26:25,954 --> 00:26:27,789 his twitches and all that. 631 00:26:27,789 --> 00:26:29,917 And I remember one time this stewardess says, 632 00:26:29,917 --> 00:26:31,293 "Is he okay? Is he okay"? 633 00:26:31,293 --> 00:26:33,003 I said, "Yes. It's just his medicine. 634 00:26:33,003 --> 00:26:34,254 It's just his medicine." 635 00:26:34,254 --> 00:26:36,715 Ugh... and I almost tried to make it sound like, 636 00:26:36,715 --> 00:26:38,008 "Oh, he was really injured." 637 00:26:38,008 --> 00:26:39,551 And you try to make up excuses, 638 00:26:39,551 --> 00:26:40,677 that's all I ever did, I tried to 639 00:26:40,677 --> 00:26:42,554 make up excuses for him to cover. 640 00:26:42,554 --> 00:26:45,766 It was, it was just... 641 00:26:45,766 --> 00:26:47,225 I didn't like seeing him like that, 642 00:26:47,225 --> 00:26:50,938 'cause that's not Marc, right? 643 00:26:50,938 --> 00:26:53,815 Yeah... 644 00:26:53,815 --> 00:26:55,817 It was tough. 645 00:26:55,817 --> 00:26:59,571 With the success of Buff's return to WCW... 646 00:26:59,571 --> 00:27:01,198 We understand that is his mother 647 00:27:01,198 --> 00:27:03,450 pushing Buff Bagwell in. 648 00:27:03,450 --> 00:27:06,828 ...a new angle is born, as Marcus' mother Judy 649 00:27:06,828 --> 00:27:08,997 becomes a part of the storyline. 650 00:27:08,997 --> 00:27:12,334 Judy Bagwell. We made her a star. 651 00:27:12,334 --> 00:27:14,836 A lot of the stuff that we did with Judy and Marc, 652 00:27:14,836 --> 00:27:17,089 I thought it was pretty good creative, actually. 653 00:27:17,089 --> 00:27:18,382 She loved to perform, too. 654 00:27:18,382 --> 00:27:20,175 I could see where Marcus got it. 655 00:27:20,175 --> 00:27:23,095 Rick Steiner and my mom loved each other. 656 00:27:23,095 --> 00:27:24,388 They were great friends. 657 00:27:24,388 --> 00:27:26,139 And he called me up one day and he goes, 658 00:27:26,139 --> 00:27:27,849 "Look, man, I got this idea. 659 00:27:27,849 --> 00:27:29,768 You being a bad guy and we're gonna bring your mom in 660 00:27:29,768 --> 00:27:31,478 and do the, "What are you doing, Son? 661 00:27:31,478 --> 00:27:33,271 Why are you being a bad guy to all these fans?" 662 00:27:33,271 --> 00:27:35,232 Your typical mother. 663 00:27:35,232 --> 00:27:36,984 And I said, "I love it. Let's do it." 664 00:27:36,984 --> 00:27:38,193 You come to me, and you said, 665 00:27:38,193 --> 00:27:41,071 "Mother, don't you ever slap me again"! 666 00:27:41,071 --> 00:27:43,323 And I believed what you said. 667 00:27:43,323 --> 00:27:45,909 [Cheering] 668 00:27:45,909 --> 00:27:48,537 I enjoyed working with my mom tremendously. 669 00:27:48,537 --> 00:27:49,913 But you know, you're... 670 00:27:49,913 --> 00:27:52,582 your mom is your mom still, so, 671 00:27:52,582 --> 00:27:53,792 working with your family is kind of, 672 00:27:53,792 --> 00:27:55,377 it's kind of hard sometimes. 673 00:27:55,377 --> 00:27:56,837 She's trying to... 674 00:27:56,837 --> 00:27:59,006 she's throwing everything she can to get away from 675 00:27:59,006 --> 00:28:00,465 Positively Kanyon. 676 00:28:00,465 --> 00:28:02,843 No, I don't regret Judy getting involved. 677 00:28:02,843 --> 00:28:05,095 Unfortunately, we leaned on it a little bit too much and 678 00:28:05,095 --> 00:28:07,139 it went a little farther and a little longer than 679 00:28:07,139 --> 00:28:08,932 it should've, but I think initially the things that 680 00:28:08,932 --> 00:28:10,350 we did with Judy were really good. 681 00:28:10,350 --> 00:28:12,477 I couldn't find the pole that would 682 00:28:12,477 --> 00:28:17,315 hold that big fat battle axe. 683 00:28:17,315 --> 00:28:20,152 After Judy's run comes to an end, 684 00:28:20,152 --> 00:28:22,696 WCW is bought by their competition, 685 00:28:22,696 --> 00:28:24,740 the World Wrestling Federation. 686 00:28:24,740 --> 00:28:26,616 As Vince McMahon only brings some 687 00:28:26,616 --> 00:28:28,869 WCW wrestlers on to his roster... 688 00:28:28,869 --> 00:28:32,622 -Buff Bagwell up? -[Cheering] 689 00:28:32,622 --> 00:28:34,875 Buff Bagwell makes the cut. 690 00:28:36,293 --> 00:28:38,378 Before making his debut, 691 00:28:38,378 --> 00:28:40,213 Marcus attends a training session 692 00:28:40,213 --> 00:28:42,340 with fellow wrestler, Shane Helms, 693 00:28:42,340 --> 00:28:45,260 which erupts into a heated confrontation. 694 00:28:45,260 --> 00:28:47,345 Shane says something to me like, 695 00:28:47,345 --> 00:28:49,681 "Yeah, Bagwell happened to be on time today." 696 00:28:49,681 --> 00:28:51,808 Or something, and I go, "Wow." 697 00:28:51,808 --> 00:28:54,102 I go, "You had a great day today, brother." 698 00:28:54,102 --> 00:28:56,938 He goes, "Well, I'm hurt." I go, "Oh, I know, yeah." 699 00:28:56,938 --> 00:28:58,815 I said, "You're always hurt." Or something. 700 00:28:58,815 --> 00:29:02,611 He goes, "Well at least I'm not a drug addict." 701 00:29:02,611 --> 00:29:04,279 And I said, "Look, bro, 702 00:29:04,279 --> 00:29:06,156 we got two ways to go here. 703 00:29:06,156 --> 00:29:08,742 We can just drop this and let it go." I said, "Or, 704 00:29:08,742 --> 00:29:10,952 I can just slap your teeth down your ----ing throat." 705 00:29:10,952 --> 00:29:13,747 ♪ 706 00:29:18,376 --> 00:29:20,420 Following an exchange of insults, 707 00:29:20,420 --> 00:29:22,881 Marcus Bagwell threatens fellow wrestler 708 00:29:22,881 --> 00:29:25,717 Shane Helms with physical violence. 709 00:29:25,717 --> 00:29:27,594 He goes, "Take your best shot." 710 00:29:27,594 --> 00:29:29,554 And he didn't get it shot out of his mouth, 711 00:29:29,554 --> 00:29:31,389 and here come the Bagwell Slap. 712 00:29:31,389 --> 00:29:32,641 Whap! 713 00:29:34,768 --> 00:29:39,731 The Bagwell slap is something my father taught us. 714 00:29:39,731 --> 00:29:43,944 It's just a way to show instant dominance. 715 00:29:43,944 --> 00:29:46,988 You're able to, you know, slap somebody and 716 00:29:46,988 --> 00:29:51,368 just get a hold of the situation and let everybody 717 00:29:51,368 --> 00:29:53,995 know what's going on and who's in control. 718 00:29:53,995 --> 00:29:56,164 And it rolled him into the corner. 719 00:29:56,164 --> 00:29:58,125 So I go to walk off... 720 00:29:58,125 --> 00:29:59,960 well, I didn't know it, but he had an ice bottle 721 00:29:59,960 --> 00:30:03,380 under his shirt. A brick- a frozen brick- 722 00:30:03,380 --> 00:30:05,841 and goes, wham! 723 00:30:05,841 --> 00:30:08,552 [Bang!] 724 00:30:08,552 --> 00:30:09,553 On the back of my head, 725 00:30:09,553 --> 00:30:11,263 me walking away from behind. 726 00:30:11,263 --> 00:30:14,933 I mean, it was like a sledgehammer. 727 00:30:14,933 --> 00:30:17,018 And, all of a sudden I look and 728 00:30:17,018 --> 00:30:19,855 there's just blood all around me. 729 00:30:19,855 --> 00:30:23,483 I don't tell nobody about it, I go to my own doctor, 730 00:30:23,483 --> 00:30:25,485 I get my own doctor to fix it. 731 00:30:25,485 --> 00:30:27,320 No time off. 732 00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:29,447 I wrestled that night with Booker with 733 00:30:29,447 --> 00:30:31,700 25 staples in my head that night. 734 00:30:31,700 --> 00:30:34,161 Had to get a black Sharpie and cover the 735 00:30:34,161 --> 00:30:36,204 staples in that match. 736 00:30:36,204 --> 00:30:38,707 And that night I was main event with Booker T and 737 00:30:38,707 --> 00:30:41,334 had a decent match, I thought. 738 00:30:41,334 --> 00:30:43,461 [Indistinct commentary] 739 00:30:43,461 --> 00:30:44,838 We're instantly starting to get hit with 740 00:30:44,838 --> 00:30:46,047 how bad our match was. 741 00:30:46,047 --> 00:30:49,050 And I go, "What? What? What happened? 742 00:30:49,050 --> 00:30:50,552 What do you mean, bad match?" 743 00:30:50,552 --> 00:30:53,430 It wasn't a barn burner, but there was no mistakes. 744 00:30:53,430 --> 00:30:55,098 But they really just kept hammering 745 00:30:55,098 --> 00:30:56,683 how bad the match was. 746 00:30:56,683 --> 00:30:58,852 So they called me that week and they're like, "Hey, man. 747 00:30:58,852 --> 00:31:01,354 We got big plans for you on, on Monday. 748 00:31:01,354 --> 00:31:03,565 Rest up." You know, "You're good to go." 749 00:31:03,565 --> 00:31:06,067 And I was fired the next week. 750 00:31:06,067 --> 00:31:08,737 I went from main event one week and 751 00:31:08,737 --> 00:31:10,530 was fired in seven days. 752 00:31:10,530 --> 00:31:13,491 Well, the match wasn't great. 753 00:31:16,161 --> 00:31:18,496 The fact is the crowd can't help you. 754 00:31:18,496 --> 00:31:21,041 What if I had a horrible match? 755 00:31:21,041 --> 00:31:24,419 So what? 756 00:31:24,419 --> 00:31:26,713 I'm Buff Bagwell, man. 757 00:31:26,713 --> 00:31:29,674 I gave 11 years to WCW. 758 00:31:29,674 --> 00:31:31,593 Five-time World Tag Team Champion, 759 00:31:31,593 --> 00:31:33,053 Rookie of the Year. 760 00:31:33,053 --> 00:31:35,972 I'm 31 with that, with 20 years 761 00:31:35,972 --> 00:31:40,060 coming at me of wonderful wrestling. 762 00:31:40,060 --> 00:31:43,980 Why would you get fired over a bad match? 763 00:31:43,980 --> 00:31:45,232 I think it was just, 764 00:31:45,232 --> 00:31:47,192 they were just trying to get rid of me. 765 00:31:47,192 --> 00:31:49,736 But see, Marc, Marc slapped him first. 766 00:31:49,736 --> 00:31:51,571 So, if Shane would have hit him, 767 00:31:51,571 --> 00:31:53,323 Shane would've probably been gone. 768 00:31:53,323 --> 00:31:57,619 The famous Bagwell Slap, cost him a... 769 00:31:57,619 --> 00:32:00,413 hundreds of thousands of dollars. 770 00:32:00,413 --> 00:32:02,916 I was gonna be one of the biggest names 771 00:32:02,916 --> 00:32:04,960 in pro wrestling, man, ever. 772 00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:07,796 And instead I was just, I had a good run, 773 00:32:07,796 --> 00:32:09,297 you know? That's all. 774 00:32:09,297 --> 00:32:11,174 And that's, that's hard to deal with, man. 775 00:32:11,174 --> 00:32:12,550 When, when you're 31 years old. 776 00:32:12,550 --> 00:32:16,513 So I dealt with it with, with pills and alcohol. 777 00:32:16,513 --> 00:32:19,975 So, what was already getting really bad, 778 00:32:19,975 --> 00:32:22,894 it just-[Whistling] It got real bad. 779 00:32:22,894 --> 00:32:24,396 I had no, like I said, I had no, 780 00:32:24,396 --> 00:32:26,022 nobody to answer to no more. 781 00:32:26,022 --> 00:32:27,774 And I, and I was depressed now. 782 00:32:27,774 --> 00:32:31,861 Buff Bagwell! 783 00:32:31,861 --> 00:32:34,906 Fired from the WWF in 2001, 784 00:32:34,906 --> 00:32:37,075 Marcus spends the next 11 years 785 00:32:37,075 --> 00:32:39,619 wrestling in independent promotions. 786 00:32:39,619 --> 00:32:42,497 And there it is! The Block Buster. 787 00:32:42,497 --> 00:32:44,708 Battling his addictions, Marcus makes 788 00:32:44,708 --> 00:32:46,459 multiple attempts to get clean. 789 00:32:46,459 --> 00:32:50,338 But in 2012, while driving home from rehab, 790 00:32:50,338 --> 00:32:52,299 he passes out at the wheel. 791 00:32:52,299 --> 00:32:53,675 And next thing I know, 792 00:32:53,675 --> 00:32:57,220 I wake up and I'm driving my car. 793 00:32:57,220 --> 00:32:59,139 I crank my Jeep. 794 00:32:59,139 --> 00:33:00,890 [Screeching tires] 795 00:33:00,890 --> 00:33:03,226 And roll it four times. 796 00:33:03,226 --> 00:33:04,394 So, I almost killed myself with that, 797 00:33:04,394 --> 00:33:05,979 knocked my teeth out, and... 798 00:33:05,979 --> 00:33:09,190 but they call that a withdrawal seizure. 799 00:33:09,190 --> 00:33:11,985 From being clean, I had a seizure. 800 00:33:11,985 --> 00:33:15,989 They had to put him in a medically induced coma 801 00:33:15,989 --> 00:33:19,284 because his neck was swelling. 802 00:33:19,284 --> 00:33:22,620 And they said had he not had that plate that he had, 803 00:33:22,620 --> 00:33:25,081 from his original broken neck, he would've, 804 00:33:25,081 --> 00:33:26,833 he would've been dead. 805 00:33:26,833 --> 00:33:28,460 When I saw him in the hospital, 806 00:33:28,460 --> 00:33:29,961 I couldn't believe how he looked. 807 00:33:29,961 --> 00:33:31,838 His entire face was swollen. 808 00:33:31,838 --> 00:33:33,381 And of course, when his brothers went there 809 00:33:33,381 --> 00:33:35,467 to see him, they were devastated because, 810 00:33:35,467 --> 00:33:38,261 I mean, you would not have recognized him. 811 00:33:38,261 --> 00:33:40,889 His face was so bad. 812 00:33:40,889 --> 00:33:42,223 He should not be alive. 813 00:33:42,223 --> 00:33:44,267 I'm telling you, he should not be alive right now. 814 00:33:48,646 --> 00:33:52,067 He crawled back up pretty quickly. 815 00:33:52,067 --> 00:33:54,069 My teeth are knocked out of my head, 816 00:33:54,069 --> 00:33:57,113 I have lost 50 pounds, 817 00:33:57,113 --> 00:33:59,282 and there's bills that still are coming in 818 00:33:59,282 --> 00:34:00,867 and I don't know what to do. 819 00:34:00,867 --> 00:34:02,869 We needed money, and so... 820 00:34:02,869 --> 00:34:05,288 we made it make sense that I was going to be on 821 00:34:05,288 --> 00:34:07,999 this show called 'Gigolos' and I was getting paid 822 00:34:07,999 --> 00:34:10,001 $25,000 to do it. 823 00:34:10,001 --> 00:34:12,003 Being a gigolo isn't always easy. 824 00:34:17,801 --> 00:34:20,220 I do. I was like, "What the ----? 825 00:34:20,220 --> 00:34:22,555 Get the ---- out of here. 826 00:34:22,555 --> 00:34:24,224 How to ---- he gon' get onto 'Gigolos' and 827 00:34:24,224 --> 00:34:25,558 he got a dick about this big"? 828 00:34:25,558 --> 00:34:27,352 -Hey, guys. -Sup, man. 829 00:34:27,352 --> 00:34:28,478 I don't even have to say his name? 830 00:34:28,478 --> 00:34:30,814 -Buff Bagwell. -Buff, man! 831 00:34:30,814 --> 00:34:32,857 They told him he was gonna make an appearance, 832 00:34:32,857 --> 00:34:35,318 and sort of be a "mentor" to the guys. 833 00:34:35,318 --> 00:34:37,737 So, we didn't know what I was doing quite yet. 834 00:34:37,737 --> 00:34:39,906 But I get all the way out there and all of a sudden 835 00:34:39,906 --> 00:34:41,991 I see what I gotta do, and I'm like, 836 00:34:41,991 --> 00:34:45,245 "Wait a second, what? Are you shittin' me"? 837 00:34:52,794 --> 00:34:55,171 Desperate for money, Marcus Bagwell agrees to 838 00:34:55,171 --> 00:34:58,007 appear on the reality TV show 'Gigolos.' 839 00:34:58,007 --> 00:34:59,217 Come on In. 840 00:34:59,217 --> 00:35:01,344 But once on set, it becomes clear that the show 841 00:35:01,344 --> 00:35:04,681 expects more from Marcus than he anticipated. 842 00:35:04,681 --> 00:35:06,224 -Hi, I'm Bradly. -Hi Bradly. 843 00:35:06,224 --> 00:35:10,145 He calls me the next day, and he said, 844 00:35:10,145 --> 00:35:12,522 "I kinda got some... bad news?" 845 00:35:12,522 --> 00:35:13,565 I go, "What do you mean"? 846 00:35:13,565 --> 00:35:15,316 He goes, "Well, it wasn't what I, 847 00:35:15,316 --> 00:35:16,818 what they told me it was gonna be. 848 00:35:16,818 --> 00:35:18,862 I did more than an appearance." 849 00:35:18,862 --> 00:35:20,196 And I said, "What are you talking about"? 850 00:35:20,196 --> 00:35:22,323 I couldn't choose just one. [Laughing] 851 00:35:22,323 --> 00:35:25,785 -Or two or three. -Exactly. [Laughing] 852 00:35:25,785 --> 00:35:29,372 He said, "Well..." [Sighing] 853 00:35:29,372 --> 00:35:31,583 "It's almost like soft porn." 854 00:35:31,583 --> 00:35:34,461 And I was about to die when he told me that. 855 00:35:34,461 --> 00:35:37,505 And when he told me what he had to do, 856 00:35:37,505 --> 00:35:39,299 it broke my heart, it really did. 857 00:35:39,299 --> 00:35:42,969 'Cause I was like, "This is, this is bad." 858 00:35:42,969 --> 00:35:45,013 In my scene, I do remember, 859 00:35:45,013 --> 00:35:49,976 I had zero blood in my, in my penis. 860 00:35:49,976 --> 00:35:53,021 Zero blood. So I'm like, "What do I do"? 861 00:35:53,021 --> 00:35:55,398 So I got real close up to her and 862 00:35:55,398 --> 00:35:57,192 act like we were having sex. 863 00:35:57,192 --> 00:35:59,527 Well, when the whole thing got done shooting, 864 00:35:59,527 --> 00:36:02,197 I'm down at the bar in Vegas with the guy that's paying us 865 00:36:02,197 --> 00:36:04,532 and I said, "Bro." I go, "I'm so sorry. 866 00:36:04,532 --> 00:36:06,993 I couldn't, I couldn't have sex with the lady." He goes, 867 00:36:06,993 --> 00:36:09,913 "You're not supposed to." And I go, "What"? 868 00:36:09,913 --> 00:36:12,790 I go, "Well nobody told me, bro." 869 00:36:12,790 --> 00:36:15,835 It's sad what a human will do when 870 00:36:15,835 --> 00:36:18,880 you're in such a situation of losing your house, 871 00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:20,715 not having food to go in your mouth. 872 00:36:20,715 --> 00:36:22,884 And we were, we were broke, man. 873 00:36:22,884 --> 00:36:24,511 But this was a show. 874 00:36:24,511 --> 00:36:28,389 I didn't know it was gonna be real later. 875 00:36:32,435 --> 00:36:36,314 Cowboys For Angels. It was a website, um... 876 00:36:36,314 --> 00:36:39,692 that you could hire a gigolo for a date, 877 00:36:39,692 --> 00:36:42,237 for a weekend, for a week. 878 00:36:42,237 --> 00:36:46,199 And it was like 10, 15, $20,000 to, 879 00:36:46,199 --> 00:36:47,575 to do this. 880 00:36:47,575 --> 00:36:50,119 We're trying to pay the bills and the same time, 881 00:36:50,119 --> 00:36:51,579 keep a marriage. 882 00:36:51,579 --> 00:36:54,624 And it sounds ludicrous saying it now, 883 00:36:54,624 --> 00:36:58,920 but when you're in it, it all happens so fast. 884 00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:00,630 [Sighing] I hate talking about this 'cause 885 00:37:00,630 --> 00:37:02,465 it's just weird, but... 886 00:37:02,465 --> 00:37:06,135 whenever he did get called to go on a "date", 887 00:37:06,135 --> 00:37:09,472 it turned out that this woman actually 888 00:37:09,472 --> 00:37:11,307 fell in love with Marc. 889 00:37:11,307 --> 00:37:14,310 Very first one out of the gate fell in love, and... 890 00:37:14,310 --> 00:37:17,981 it was crazy, and I would live there for a week, 891 00:37:17,981 --> 00:37:19,357 paying our bills, 892 00:37:19,357 --> 00:37:21,859 and I'd come home for a week. 893 00:37:21,859 --> 00:37:25,238 He ended up seeing her 894 00:37:25,238 --> 00:37:26,489 without my knowledge. 895 00:37:26,489 --> 00:37:28,366 Judy had a job. 896 00:37:28,366 --> 00:37:30,159 She's got a great job she really likes. 897 00:37:30,159 --> 00:37:31,619 And at this time it was, I mean, 898 00:37:31,619 --> 00:37:32,912 she was always gone. 899 00:37:32,912 --> 00:37:34,205 And then I was gone on the weekend, 900 00:37:34,205 --> 00:37:36,374 so we never saw each other. 901 00:37:36,374 --> 00:37:39,502 So the transition from Judy to 902 00:37:39,502 --> 00:37:41,462 this person that had money, 903 00:37:41,462 --> 00:37:44,048 it was, it seemed more logical. 904 00:37:44,048 --> 00:37:46,009 And... 905 00:37:46,009 --> 00:37:48,636 they, he called me at work one day. 906 00:37:48,636 --> 00:37:53,099 This is a really bad time, and said, 907 00:37:53,099 --> 00:37:57,020 "I think I have fallen in love and I'm going to leave." 908 00:37:57,020 --> 00:37:58,605 ♪ 909 00:37:58,605 --> 00:38:00,189 Yeah. 910 00:38:00,189 --> 00:38:01,733 No. 911 00:38:01,733 --> 00:38:03,568 Absolutely I would've stayed with Judy 912 00:38:03,568 --> 00:38:05,695 if I had to do it over, but I don't. 913 00:38:05,695 --> 00:38:10,283 And, and things happened, and it went on. 914 00:38:10,283 --> 00:38:13,494 Dealing with relationship and financial problems, 915 00:38:13,494 --> 00:38:16,789 Marcus' drug use spirals out of control, 916 00:38:16,789 --> 00:38:19,000 resulting in multiple DUIs and 917 00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:22,462 eventually another car wreck. 918 00:38:22,462 --> 00:38:24,797 And this last one was devastating. 919 00:38:24,797 --> 00:38:28,134 This last one was, you know, August of 2020. 920 00:38:28,134 --> 00:38:31,179 I, you know, I went through the back of a building 921 00:38:31,179 --> 00:38:32,597 behind Cumberland Mall. 922 00:38:32,597 --> 00:38:34,641 ♪ 923 00:38:34,641 --> 00:38:36,934 And just, you know, I wasn't there. 924 00:38:36,934 --> 00:38:39,270 I just completely blacked out. 925 00:38:39,270 --> 00:38:42,273 Went through a bus station bathroom. 926 00:38:42,273 --> 00:38:45,610 And how I got out and not killing somebody on 927 00:38:45,610 --> 00:38:47,945 this one, man, is just... 928 00:38:47,945 --> 00:38:49,280 I got no idea. 929 00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:52,325 I mean, but I'm very lucky that I'm not dead. 930 00:38:52,325 --> 00:38:54,410 And, and really honest to God I mean this, 931 00:38:54,410 --> 00:38:57,246 more that somebody else ain't dead. 932 00:38:57,246 --> 00:38:58,581 After these wrecks you're just like, 933 00:38:58,581 --> 00:39:01,084 when's it gonna stop? You know, when's it... 934 00:39:01,084 --> 00:39:04,212 it's, it's, it's just never ending. 935 00:39:04,212 --> 00:39:06,839 Already at rock bottom with his addiction, 936 00:39:06,839 --> 00:39:09,384 Marcus receives life shattering news 937 00:39:09,384 --> 00:39:11,386 about his mother, Judy. 938 00:39:11,386 --> 00:39:13,304 She was suffering for a while, man. 939 00:39:13,304 --> 00:39:14,639 She, um... 940 00:39:14,639 --> 00:39:19,018 she had got dementia and just, was just horribly bad. 941 00:39:19,018 --> 00:39:22,855 I saw the most powerful woman in the world 942 00:39:22,855 --> 00:39:24,816 really going down in flames, bro. 943 00:39:24,816 --> 00:39:26,567 I mean, like, like bad. 944 00:39:26,567 --> 00:39:29,570 ♪ 945 00:39:33,825 --> 00:39:36,202 Marcus Bagwell and his family now face their 946 00:39:36,202 --> 00:39:39,163 biggest challenge yet, as his mother, Judy, 947 00:39:39,163 --> 00:39:42,041 is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. 948 00:39:42,041 --> 00:39:45,336 She was at a rehabilitation place. 949 00:39:45,336 --> 00:39:48,673 She had kind of slipped into a situation 950 00:39:48,673 --> 00:39:51,676 where she couldn't wake up. 951 00:39:51,676 --> 00:39:55,179 And I had hurt myself, and I was in the hospital, 952 00:39:55,179 --> 00:39:58,391 and they called me to see if could get her woke up. 953 00:39:58,391 --> 00:40:01,227 And for over an hour, I, you know, I kept digging, 954 00:40:01,227 --> 00:40:04,439 trying to get her woke up, begging her to 955 00:40:04,439 --> 00:40:09,277 open her eyes and, and talk to us. 956 00:40:09,277 --> 00:40:12,655 Didn't work out at all. 957 00:40:12,655 --> 00:40:17,368 And at some point I got a call and said, 958 00:40:17,368 --> 00:40:18,995 "Hate to tell you, Mr. Bagwell, 959 00:40:18,995 --> 00:40:22,623 but your wife died." 960 00:40:22,623 --> 00:40:25,001 One of the greatest women I ever knew 961 00:40:25,001 --> 00:40:28,588 or anybody else ever knew. 962 00:40:28,588 --> 00:40:31,424 I mean, everybody says their mom's the best, 963 00:40:31,424 --> 00:40:34,302 but my mom was the best. 964 00:40:34,302 --> 00:40:36,304 It was a lot of dysfunction. 965 00:40:36,304 --> 00:40:38,556 But they loved their kids, they really did. 966 00:40:44,771 --> 00:40:47,899 I think it woke him up more than anything. 967 00:40:47,899 --> 00:40:51,611 His niece came into the picture because 968 00:40:51,611 --> 00:40:53,321 Marc needed a place to live. 969 00:40:53,321 --> 00:40:55,740 And so she said, "You can stay here, 970 00:40:55,740 --> 00:40:58,201 but you're gonna have to get clean." 971 00:40:58,201 --> 00:41:01,496 Then they said, "Look, if you don't get sober today, 972 00:41:01,496 --> 00:41:04,665 you don't go today, we're, we're out of your life." 973 00:41:04,665 --> 00:41:06,459 And I said, "Let's do it." 974 00:41:06,459 --> 00:41:08,294 And then we brought Dallas Page in, 975 00:41:08,294 --> 00:41:10,713 and that's how it all started. 976 00:41:13,090 --> 00:41:15,593 Yeah, absolutely. 977 00:41:15,593 --> 00:41:16,761 I do believe it. 978 00:41:16,761 --> 00:41:18,304 I've talked to him several times. 979 00:41:18,304 --> 00:41:20,181 It's just like the old Marc. 980 00:41:20,181 --> 00:41:24,143 I can barely see hardly any, you know, Buff in there. 981 00:41:24,143 --> 00:41:26,020 It was a lot of Marc, now. 982 00:41:26,020 --> 00:41:28,689 So, I do believe him. I do. 983 00:41:31,776 --> 00:41:33,569 Yeah, I can. 984 00:41:33,569 --> 00:41:35,863 'Dark Side of the Ring' called me, and they said, 985 00:41:35,863 --> 00:41:37,949 "Hey man, we're gonna, we're gonna do your story." 986 00:41:37,949 --> 00:41:40,993 And they told me some people they were gonna reach out to. 987 00:41:40,993 --> 00:41:42,912 And one of them was, was Scotty Riggs. 988 00:41:42,912 --> 00:41:45,331 And I said, "Cool, great." I thought, 989 00:41:45,331 --> 00:41:46,541 "You know, I owe him a call anyway. 990 00:41:46,541 --> 00:41:48,543 I'm gonna call and just touch base with him." 991 00:41:48,543 --> 00:41:50,378 And he texted me back and said, 992 00:41:50,378 --> 00:41:53,881 "I'm living in my car the last six or eight weeks." 993 00:41:53,881 --> 00:41:57,219 My mom got ill and passed away in 2020, 994 00:41:57,219 --> 00:41:59,263 and went through a 995 00:41:59,263 --> 00:42:01,640 couple years there paying the bills, 996 00:42:01,640 --> 00:42:03,892 everything else, trying to keep the house, 997 00:42:03,892 --> 00:42:05,686 the whole nine yards... 998 00:42:05,686 --> 00:42:08,647 ended up losing the house that I was living in, 999 00:42:08,647 --> 00:42:10,440 and was sleeping in my car. 1000 00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:13,610 And I was in a really depressed place, 1001 00:42:13,610 --> 00:42:17,698 dark state, and was pretty much... 1002 00:42:17,698 --> 00:42:20,492 maybe a half a day away of putting a gun to my chest 1003 00:42:20,492 --> 00:42:22,035 and taking my life. 1004 00:42:22,035 --> 00:42:25,163 And Marcus called me up and just basically 1005 00:42:25,163 --> 00:42:29,668 browbeat me to come to Atlanta. 1006 00:42:29,668 --> 00:42:32,462 And he's like, "Dude, I'm at Diamond Dallas' house. 1007 00:42:32,462 --> 00:42:35,257 Get up here." I said, "Man I, I'm... 1008 00:42:35,257 --> 00:42:37,759 content with not being here anymore." 1009 00:42:37,759 --> 00:42:39,678 And he did not give up. 1010 00:42:39,678 --> 00:42:42,931 "I love you man, get up here, get up here." 1011 00:42:42,931 --> 00:42:45,726 And that next morning I drove up here. 1012 00:42:45,726 --> 00:42:47,144 And if it wasn't for him, 1013 00:42:47,144 --> 00:42:48,937 I probably wouldn't be here today. 1014 00:42:51,607 --> 00:42:54,651 I do. I'll always love, I'll always love Marc. 1015 00:42:54,651 --> 00:42:58,405 I think he's just really, genuinely this good guy. 1016 00:42:58,405 --> 00:43:01,575 And for so long, people have, 1017 00:43:01,575 --> 00:43:03,702 you know, misjudged him. 1018 00:43:03,702 --> 00:43:08,582 I think that he has some good people supporting him, 1019 00:43:08,582 --> 00:43:11,752 and he has a wonderful girl in his life now. 1020 00:43:11,752 --> 00:43:13,420 I hope that works out for him. 1021 00:43:13,420 --> 00:43:14,922 I want him to be happy. 1022 00:43:14,922 --> 00:43:17,090 I truly want him to be happy. 1023 00:43:17,090 --> 00:43:18,383 Marcus Bagwell is a lovable guy. 1024 00:43:18,383 --> 00:43:20,177 It's why his ex-wives still love him. 1025 00:43:20,177 --> 00:43:22,012 It's why friends still love him. 1026 00:43:22,012 --> 00:43:23,555 It's why I still love him. 1027 00:43:23,555 --> 00:43:25,641 Despite his faults and his flaws. 1028 00:43:25,641 --> 00:43:27,935 But at Marc's core, he's a very giving, 1029 00:43:27,935 --> 00:43:29,686 generous, loving person. 1030 00:43:32,189 --> 00:43:35,067 I think the same drive that made him a superstar in 1031 00:43:35,067 --> 00:43:37,653 a year, the fortitude, the gumption, 1032 00:43:37,653 --> 00:43:41,740 the want, you know, the smartness. 1033 00:43:41,740 --> 00:43:43,408 He's done a lot of things in his life that 1034 00:43:43,408 --> 00:43:45,035 I was very, very proud of. 1035 00:43:45,035 --> 00:43:48,747 But I think getting sober and staying sober 1036 00:43:48,747 --> 00:43:50,958 is above all of 'em. 1037 00:43:50,958 --> 00:43:55,504 The future for me is sobriety and my recovery. 1038 00:43:55,504 --> 00:43:57,089 And no doubt about it, 1039 00:43:57,089 --> 00:43:58,298 I wanna be back in the business. 1040 00:43:58,298 --> 00:43:59,967 I wanna be back in the ring. 1041 00:43:59,967 --> 00:44:03,303 Look, if anybody can pull it off, Marcus Bagwell can. 1042 00:44:03,303 --> 00:44:05,347 I'm rootin' for you, baby. 1043 00:44:05,347 --> 00:44:07,557 I'm rootin' for ya. [Laughing]