Professional wrestling legend and WWE Hall of Famer Eric Bischoff who was the first ever General Manager of Monday Night RAW recently talked about the former five times WCW World Tag Team Champion Buff Bagwell and talked about the early success of the wrestler in WCW.
Buff Bagwell started his professional wrestling career back in 1990 and he had been pretty impressive from the very first day of joining the world of professional wrestling. His impressive wrestling skill earned him the biggest call of his career in only one year after starting his career when he got to sign a professional contract with WCW.
Eric Bischoff Looks Back At The Early WCW Career Of Buff Bagwell
He spent over 10 years in WCW and he kept on working in the promotion as long as the promotion was in existence. In only a very short amount of time he became a really big star. He had been a concrete mid carder throughout his WCW career and he flourished even more after joining the nWo later in his career.
He had been a great Tag Team wrestler in WCW as well as he won the WCW world Tag Team Championship five times in total in his WCW career. After the death of WCW, he moved to WWE and he got world title opportunities in his early days but he was not very well received by the WWE fans. On the same year he was released by WWE and since then he is active on the Independent circuit. He has worked in other professional wrestling promotions as well.
Eric Bischoff who was the first ever General Manager of Monday Night RAW recently spoke on his 83 Weeks Podcast where he talked about the former five times WCW World Tag Team Champion Buff Bagwell and talked about the early success of the wrestler in WCW. He said;
“You know and you think back I don’t know I can’t remember how old Buff was when he broke into WCW, but relatively early in his career, right? Only 20 years old maybe whatever he was 19-20. To achieve that much success when you’re that young dare I say immature I can speak from personal experience that I believe men typically mature at a rate about six or seven years behind women.
“When I think back of myself when I was 19 or 20, I was really 15 or 16, you know what I mean? To get to have that much success so early in his career and on top of that it’s such a young age that’s kind of overwhelming and would be interesting for anybody to handle.
“Because, typically you’ve been in the business for five, seven, eight, ten years and kind of have a much better perspective. So, when you walk through the door and bam four months later here you are getting the push of a lifetime and you’re still only 19 or 20 years old it’s a lot of pressure for a young man.”
“It would have been a Dusty call I mean to answer your first question. I had zero input or knowledge of what was going on creatively that just wasn’t my lane and I didn’t try to force myself into it. I don’t know how it came about it was Dusty’s call, but it could have easily been, you know, a Magnum TA or Mike Graham or anybody else that Dusty listened to consistently.”
“I loved it. You know you go back and watch Too Cold Scorpio at that period in time you know he was an innovator. He was doing things in the ring and Scorpio wasn’t a cruiserweight. He might not have been six foot five or six or seven, but he was a solid 240 at least and could fly like a 160 pounder and at that time it was kind of a new thing. With Buff’s looks and his abilities it was a pretty dynamic team.”
Quotes via 411 Mania