Buff Bagwell recently appeared as a guest on the Who The Fook Are These Guys? podcast for an in-depth interview covering all things pro wrestling.
During the appearance, "The Stuff" spoke about the WCW departure of Steve Austin, his belief that Vince McMahon enjoyed taking talent from WCW and turning them into bigger stars in WWE.
Featured below are some of the highlights from the interview where he touches on these topics with his thoughts.
On the WCW departure of Steve Austin and why he thinks it was because he was injury-prone: “Steve was hurt for us a lot. He really was. He tore his bicep. And when you’re hurt with pro wrestling, the deal is, we’re live TV. This is live. So if you got hurt, it’s kind of hard to put you in the thing and keep you going, because you’re doing us no good. The main thing that made me successful and a lot of guys’ success was, besides my broken neck, I wasn’t hurt for 11 years. I never missed a match in 11 years. But still, that was his thing. Injuries, they happen. But Eric felt like that was a problem.”
Buff thinks Vince McMahon liked taking WCW talent and turning them into big stars. Austin is one of the biggest stars in the history of the business.
On how he thinks Vince McMahon enjoyed taking talent from WCW and turning them into big stars, with Austin being the best example: “Here’s the thing, McMahon loved taking guys like Steve Austin and showing WCW, ‘look, I took one of your guys and look what I’ve fu**ing done with him. He’s a fu**ing star. You let him go, I turned him into Stone Cold. You let Vinnie Vegas go, Kevin Nash, and now he’s Diesel, making millions.’ He got off on taking talent we’d give up and turn them into big talent, to show us what we had fu**ed up on. He loved doing that, he loved it. So if you ever came from us, you went to him and he became the man to push you through the roof.”
Check out the complete interview at Spotify.com. H/T to Wrestling Inc for transcribing the above quotes.
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