According to sources, Buff Bagwell suffered a broken neck in two places as well as a crushed nose, broken jaw (which is wired shut) and broken cheekbone. The plan is to do neck surgery once the swelling goes down. As of now, they are keeping him sedated until the most serious of the injuries can be taken care of.
It was notes yesterday by TMZ that Bagwell called his wife, thinking he was about to have a seizure. Bagwell’s wife called 911 stating Buff had recently had a change in medication. He started a new medication to fight off a “bacteria” that was in his system due to another medication. Bagwell’s wife told the 911 operator, “He’s trying to cut back on pain pills, and maybe that’s what’s causing [the seizure]”
No other vehicles were involved in the accident.
Here is our original exclusive report from Tuesday:
We reported earlier that former WCW wrestler Marcus “Buff” Bagwell, 42, was injured in a serious car accident on Tuesday, according to the Twitter account of the Atlanta, Georgia-based independent promotion Universal Championship Wrestling. UCW adds that Bagwell was admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU).
According to a source we spoke with earlier today, Buff has been in rough shape in recent months and had been “detoxing” at the time of today’s accident. Numerous friends of Buff have been worried about his condition for quite some time now. Our source notes that Buff has been doing things to “score pills”, including injuring himself on purpose. One source texted the following: “I wouldn’t be shocked if he did it to get more Rx”. When told that seemed pretty crazy that he’d do something like that, the source, who is very close friends with Buff, replied with: “Uve never met him then ….”.
It should be noted Buff no-showed an indy event several weeks ago and blamed it on a car accident. He was replaced by Raven at that event.
We’re told Buff went through a windshield during the wreck this morning. He’s currently in ICU with multiple face lacerations.
More as we get it.
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