Wrestling legend Buff Bagwell loses his leg after a car crash in harrowing health update

Wrestling legend Buff Bagwell has had his right leg amputated from above the knee after struggling to recover from a car crash in 2020.

The sad news was broken by his friend Steve Stasiak on Facebook, who shared an update of Bagwell from his hospital bed.

'Yesterday morning, Marcus Bagwell - Buff Bagwell - had his leg amputated above the knee,' Stasiak wrote in a heartfelt post.

'I’ve known Buff a long time. I’ve seen him in the spotlight, I’ve seen him behind the scenes, and I’ve seen him fight through things most people never even hear about. This one… this is hard. For him. For everyone who knows and loves him.'

The 55-year-old had previously said on his YouTube channel that he was having the surgery after a 'five-year battle' not to lose his leg. 

Speaking alongside his fiancee, Bagwell opened up about seemingly blacking out while driving and crashing in August 2020 after medical procedures on his foot and knee.

'I was heading home (from his father's house) and I had just had surgery, ironically this foot had pins in it and I had got this knee scoped for a minor meniscus tear,' he said. 

'I had been drinking, just a few beers but whatever happened, I'm going down the road with a diet coke and I am gone. I am gone. But you don't realize you are gone.

'It was like a dream. I remember hitting cars, seeing faces look at me. I got off at the wrong exit and somehow, I drove through a men's and women's bathroom.' 

Stasiak's statement continued: 'The injuries from his 2020 accident never fully healed. He gave it everything he had to avoid this outcome—but that fight led him here. And now begins a whole new kind of battle.

'Buff was one of the brightest stars of a wild era in wrestling. He made you look. He made you care. But it’s who he is as a person—past the lights, past the persona—that I hope people think about today.

'If you’re reading this, I just ask that you send a little love out into the world for Buff. No grand gestures. Just something real. A thought, a prayer, a moment.'

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