Buff Bagwell Is Sober Thanks To DDP & He Has A Hilarious New Gimmick "Mr. Bagwell's Neighborhood"

Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Chris Van Vliet

Entrepreneurship, Mental Health, Business, Health & Fitness, Sports, Wrestling

4.9 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Marcus Bagwell (@marcusbuffbagwell) is a professional wrestler better known as Buff Bagwell from his time in WCW and WWE. He joins Chris Van Vliet from Diamond Dallas Page's house in Atlanta, GA to talk about his recovery from an addiction to alcohol and prescription pills and the gratitude he has to DDP and Steve Yu for helping him get sober. He also discusses the docuseries he is part of with Butterbean called "Change Or Die", his career in WCW, why he only had one match in WWE, what he thinks lead to him being fired by WWE, the infamous Cameo that he sent to a fan, the recent passing of his mother Judy Bagwell and much more! For more information on Diamond Dallas Page visit: https://www.diamonddallaspage.com/ If you enjoyed this episode, could I ask you to please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcast/iTunes? It takes less than a minute and makes a huge difference in helping to spread the word about the show and also to convince some hard-to-get guests. For more information about Chris Van Vliet and INSIGHT go to: https://podcast.chrisvanvliet.com Follow CVV on social media: Instagram: instagram.com/ChrisVanVliet Twitter: twitter.com/ChrisVanVliet Facebook: facebook.com/ChrisVanVliet YouTube: youtube.com/ChrisVanVliet TikTok: tiktok.com/@Chris.VanVliet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	All systems are going.
0:01.3	Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Van Blea.
0:08.2	And here we go.
0:10.8	Welcome back, my friends, to another audio adventure on Insight.
0:14.8	I'm CBV, Chris Van Pleet.
0:16.4	Thanks for being with us and for listening to the show on whatever platform that you're on right now.
0:22.0	If it's Spotify or Apple, it would be amazing if you could take a second out of your day to leave a rating or review on there.
0:29.1	On Spotify, we're so close to a thousand ratings.
0:32.7	So if this is open on Spotify or if you have Spotify, it means so much to me if you could go in
0:38.4	and click those stars on there. All right, where do we begin with this one? This is such a deeply
0:45.1	personal and deeply honest conversation with Buff Bagwell. He struggled with addiction for decades
0:52.6	and with the help of Diamond Dallas Page and his team,
0:55.9	Buff, or I guess I should call him Marcus,
0:58.1	because he's such a very different man.
1:01.0	Marcus has now been clean and sober since August 27th.
1:05.2	And the person that you hear during this interview
1:07.1	is a very different Buff Bagwell
1:09.6	than the one that we've seen over the last
1:12.0	30 years. It's amazing seeing his progress. And a lot of it, so much of it is because of
1:20.1	his DDP. His heart is so big and his mission in life is to help people. It's well documented
1:27.1	how much he helped Jake the Snake Roberts and the late great Scott
1:31.3	Hall.
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