Buff Bagwell Thought He’d Never Walk Again After WCW Thunder Injury

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Buff Bagwell suffered a brutal neck injury during a botched bulldog spot on WCW Thunder that left him temporarily paralyzed in the ring, with the wrestler telling colleagues "I'm paralyzed" when they tried to move him. Bagwell broke his neck at the C3-C4 level, bruising his spinal cord, and described feeling returning to his body like "hot water pouring down his limbs" when trainer Danny Young noticed his left hand moving. He eventually regained full movement once the swelling in his spinal cord went down, crediting both medical factors and his faith for his recovery.