Ex-pro wrestling star Buff Bagwell gets right leg amputated: 'This is hard'

"The injuries from his 2020 accident never fully healed. He gave it everything he had to avoid this outcome-but that fight led him here. And now begins a whole new kind of battle.

"Buff was one of the brightest stars of a wild era in wrestling. He made you look. He made you care. But it's who he is as a person-past the lights, past the persona-that I hope people think about today."

The pro wrestling world offered their thoughts and prayers for Bagwell on social media as word reached X that he had had the surgery.

He was a five-time WCW tag-team champion and was ranked No. 66 in Pro Wrestling Illustrated's Top 500 wrestlers of 1999.