Buff Bagwell Talks Backstage Incident Affecting Infamous Booker T Match, WWE Firing Him, More

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On episode 157 of You’re Welcome! With Chael Sonnen, former WCW star Buff Bagwell discussed his WWE departure in depth. During the interview Bagwell said he made peace with being released by WWE about five years ago, though he thought it was strange that his WWE Monday Night RAW debut match against Booker T did not take place in Atlanta, Georgia. Bagwell indicated that he had nearly 30 stitches and a concussion from an altercation with Shane Helms prior to the RAW match with Booker T. Also, Bagwell suggested that even if he mother, Judy, called WWE Talent Relations on her son’s behalf, it would not be a valid reason to release him.

On the subject of his WWE departure, Bagwell said that he made peace with it five years ago. With that said, never knowing why it played out like it had is what really bothered him about it. Bagwell claimed that his RAW main event match versus Booker T was never given a chance because it took place in Tacoma, WA, a city WCW never visited in 11 years.

“I got over it maybe five years ago I would say and it [has] been around 18 or 19 years now, but I would say five years ago, I totally let it go. But I don’t know that answer and that’s what hurts. I’ve got assumptions. I’ve got ideas. But I don’t know. Nobody told me why. I was told I was released. The facts that I have is this, real quick and real simple. Booker T and Buff Bagwell was the first match of the invasion, one of the biggest things that ever happens in pro wrestling history is going to happen and that is WCW is going to wrestle the WWF for the very first time ever. To kick that [angle] off, they pick Buff Bagwell and Booker T. And the problem is, we decide to do it in Tacoma, Washington, which WCW had never wrestled in 11 years there before and the next week was Philips Arena [in Atlanta, Georgia].”

Bagwell continued, “why would these guys not wait one week and put Booker T and Buff Bagwell in the Philips Arena in Atlanta, in Ted Turner’s backyard? So we at least smelled poop out of the gate. We knew something was up. You don’t put Booker T and Buff Bagwell in Tacoma, Washington when all you’ve got to do is wait seven days and you’ve got 100,000 fans coming through the roof for us. Instead we come out and we get booed out of the building.”

According to Bagwell, he had 28 stitches in his head and a concussion from the Shane Helms water bottle incident at the time of the …

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