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Marcus "Buff" Bagwell

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Real Name:  Marcus Alexander Bagwell

Birthday:  January 10, 1970

Hometown:  Marietta, Georgia

Height:  6'1

Weight:  245

Titles: 4 Tag team championships in WCW.

Finishing Move:  Buff Blockbuster

        Buff Bagwell, the wrestler formally known as Marcus Bagwell has seen many different looks since his WCW debut in 1991. He wrestled under the name "The Handsome Stranger".

    He then switched to tag teams. Bagwell is a four-time former WCW World Tag Team Champion with three separate partners, and is the only man who can claim such a feat. First teamed with Too Cold Scorpio, and soonafter teamed up with the masked Patriot to form the team "Stars and Stripes".

    After the Patriot left WCW.  Bagwell teamed with Scotty Riggs and changed his look to that of a sex symbol.

    The two were called the "American Males," and  won the WCW World Tag Team titles. Bagwell turned against Riggs after the NWO demanded that WCW wrestlers convert their contracts to NWO contracts.   Soon after, Bagwell began calling himself "Buff".  Since he claimed he was much more muscular than his former partner Riggs. Bagwell defeated Riggs at NWO Souled Out.

    Aside from wrestling in singles competition, Bagwell is currently teaming with Scott Norton as a new tag team called "Vicious and Delicious,"   Today, Bagwell has continued to show a cocky and arrogant attitude, and is primed for the big time as many feel he is better than ever.

Here are some "Did You Knows"

Before wrestling, Marcus Bagwell made his living as a male dancer.

Bagwell earned all-state prep honors in football and baseball.

Bagwell (Who was trained by Steve "The Brawler" Lawler) began his wrestling career with Global Wrestling, a new organization that didn’t work.

Bagwell was only 20 at the start of his WCW career (the youngest wrestler at the time), and was only supposed to train there.

Bagwell was voted WCW Rookie of the Year in 1991.

Bagwell's tattoo around his left arm is real. 

Favorite TV Show: Cheers

Favorite Band: Aerosmith

Favorite Matches: With 2 Cold Scorpio against The Nasty Boys, with Scotty Riggs against Harlem Heat, solo against Diamond Dallas Page.

Favorite Movie: Red Dawn starring Patrick Swayze

Taking cues from "Hollywood" Hulk Hogan, "Buff" Bagwell has starred in two movies The Day of the Warrior and Return to Savage Beach.