WWE Hall of Famer Lex Luger comforts Buff Bagwell following leg amputation procedure

Former WCW star Buff Bagwell made a decision to have his leg amputated due to complications from a 2020 car accident. After the procedure, Bagwell spoke with WWE Hall of Famer Lex Luger in a video shared by Maven Huffman. Here was the conversation…

Bagwell: “It’s bizarre, bro, looking down and not seeing my leg. It’s a lot. It’s gone, brother. When I first woke up, I looked down and I was like, I didn’t forget, of course, but I was like, ‘Wow, my leg is gone, bro.’ In that five or six second period, I got hit real hard. I got hit hard. Then I went, ‘Bro, your leg looked horrible and you’ve been miserable for five years, bro.’ Instead of losing my leg, I’m gaining a leg from this. I’ve been without a leg for five years, bro. It just was there. A lot of pain. I’ve been taking 12 Advil a day and 6 Tylenol for the last three or four months.”

Luger: “When I had a spinal cord injury, I slowly wasted away. They always showered me in the room there. And so I was never in front of a mirror. One of my roommates in the bathroom when we showered, they took me down the hall to shower me. And they had my lower part of my body covered, but not my upper body. And there was like windows and mirrors along the hallway leading down to the shower area. And I saw this guy going by in a wheelchair, really skated off the corner of my eye. I looked over and that hit me. That was me. I didn’t recognize myself. I realized, though, big picture. If you can’t fly, run. If you can’t run, walk. If you can’t walk, crawl. Whatever you do, keep on moving forward.”