10 Wrestling Careers That Bombed After Their Biggest Match
1. Buff Bagwell
What a strange career Buff Bagwell had. Buff got his big break as Marcus Alexander Bagwell, a fresh-faced babyface tagging with Scotty Riggs in the American Males, two handsome young dudes who looked exactly like what you imagine early '90s guys called 'The American Males' to look like. Buff was always there, but Buff was lurking below the surface. It took the nWo to bring him out.
Buff Bagwell was an immovable part of WCW during the Attitude Era without ever being that important. He was always there, hanging around the coattails of the nWo, but he never really found himself in a position of any prominence. He never held a singles title and never really came close, bouncing around tag teams while maintaining a bizarrely high profile.
Buff was one of the first WCW talents to accept a contract from WWE, and he soon found himself challenging Booker T for the WCW Heavyweight Championship on an episode of WWE RAW. It was an awfully strange situation and the match itself was ten times worse, proving that WCW may have had it right when deciding against a singles push for Buff. He was released by WWE soon after.