Buff Bagwell Reveals Why He Had Maven Film His Leg Amputation

Buff Bagwell’s leg amputation was filmed by Maven, and Bagwell recently discussed why he asked Maven to do so. Bagwell announced in July of last year that his right leg had to be amputated due to issues stemming from his August 2020 car accident when he was driving under the influence and blacked out, colliding with a free-standing bathroom at the Cobb County Transit bus station in Marietta, Georgia.

Bagwell appeared on Insight With Chris Van Vliet and spoke about allowing Maven to film the amputation to his YouTube channel. He acknowledged that the popularity of Maven’s channel was the big reason and felt it would be the lest way to let people know. You can see highlights below:

On Why He Allowed Maven To Film His Amputation:

“To be honest with you, ratings. I felt like it would be the best way to let people know, and we could get a rub off of the YouTube channel. I like Maven a lot. Funny story about Maven, and this probably is actually the true answer behind what you just said. Chase Brogan, my YouTube producer, called me up and gave me this bill that 1,000 other people have gave me, I said, Brother, there’s no money in that. There’s no money. It’s very hard to make money, if any, it just don’t work. He goes, but you’re sober now, and it hit me. I went, Okay. So I’m listening. So he flies into town and puts a Maven video on. I’m looking, and I’m watching, and I was not impressed at all. He goes, ‘Hey, that guy makes $200,000 a year on YouTube.’ I said, ‘Two things. Number one, I don’t believe he makes $200,000 a year. Number two, if he does make $200,000 a year, we’ll make four. We’ll do it. Because what I’m looking at, if that’s 200 grand, then we’ll do four.’ I was wrong on both. He did make that money, and we’re not going to double him. It’s some kind of crazy magic in the bottle thing that guy has got. He puts a video out about Waffle House, it gets a million views. I put one out that I think, personally, is a little better, and it gets 30,000 views.”

On Reaching Out to Maven:

“I reached out to Maven and said exactly what I just told you. I said, ‘Hey, brother, what do you think about you being the person that breaks the news on me losing my leg and me getting a little rub from you? You help us along the way, build my channel?’ And he goes, absolutely, let’s do it. And that’s what we did.”