WWE News: Buff Bagwell Thinks nWo Changed The Pro Wrestling Crowd Forever
May 9, 2017 at 4:20 PM
Former WWE and WCW star Buff Bagwell spoke with WETM-TV NBC about a number of exciting topics from his days in WCW. He pointed out the differences between wrestling in those days and nowadays.
He thought wrestling became way easier than it was before because it is more popular worldwide than it is now. He believes this change was actually made by the nWo;
How crowds changed throughout his career:
“Back then, we literally had to beg 500 people to come in to watch us wrestle, for free. Just to get a show taped. All the way to 100,000 people buying tickets to come see us, so I saw the whole roller coaster, and it was really a lot of fun watching it…and the nWo was the entire reason behind that. We painted this picture of a really good storyline, and it really worked.”
Bagwell also pointed out his greatest moment of his career. He thought one of the best time of his career was when he was asked to join nWo. He had a victory over the sixteen times world champion ‘The Nature Boy’ Ric Flair, he thought this was the best achievement of his career;
Greatest moment, which then led to beating Ric Flair:
“My greatest moment of all-time had to be the night they asked me to join the nWo, that was like asking ‘Hey, do you want to join the Dallas Cowboys?’ during their three-year World Championship run. Of course, you want to join them, so it was like joining the best team at the best time. So, joining that led to so many great things. I mean, I beat Ric Flair. Which is really a rare statement, ya know, not many people can say that. I actually beat Ric Flair, which is a huge thing on my list, but that just don’t happen a lot, Ric don’t lay down much.”