10 Wrestlers Who Nearly Died In Travelling Incidents

7. Buff Bagwell Breaks His Beautiful Face (And Neck)

Former six time WCW world tag team champion Buff Bagwell, famous for the very first and only WCW championship match on WWF television (the one that fans reacted to so badly that Vince McMahon decided that WCW couldn€™t be run as a separate WWF brand) telephoned his wife from the road at 1.35pm on Tuesday April 23rd 2012, to inform her that he thought he was having a seizure. This would prove to be correct, and Bagwell would then crash his car at speed. Rushed to hospital, Bagwell was admitted to intensive care with several broken bones in his neck, face and jaw. Remaining on breathing and feeding tubes for several days, surgery was only possible when the swelling in his face had subsided. Two weeks after the crash, his jaw wired shut, Bagwell was able to walk again, albeit with tingling in his arms and hands. He had had to have four metal plates inserted into his face to repair the damage caused in the accident. Like most professional wrestlers Buff Bagwell is hard as nails, and picked up his indie wrestling career less than a year after the crash. The last we heard, he was still wrestling sporadically, while moonlighting in a no doubt far more lucrative career as a professional gigolo, capitalising on the €˜buff€™ part of his ring name.