Maven Recalls Breaking Gene Snitsky’s Orbital Bone, His Video About Buff Bagwell

That was not Gene Snitsky’s fault. It was Maven’s. Former WWE Superstar Maven recently spoke to Insight With Chris Van Vliet about his career, former WCW and WWE wrestler Buff Bagwell getting his leg amputated, and the instance where Maven accidentally broke the orbital bone of Gene Snitsky when they were wrestling. Below are some highlights from Insight:

Maven on video regarding Buff Bagwell’s leg amputation: “I think for what Buff has went through the last five years. And make no mistake about it, Buff Bagwell put himself in that position. But even still, I mean to go from what he was circa 1990s to the way he is now, I don’t think I could go into it with that attitude. I would be in the biggest depression of my life, and he just wasn’t. He was excited for new opportunities. I was honored that he chose us to tell his story. The job was easy for me. The job was lead Buff where we need him to go on our end and get out of the way, because Buff is going to tell his story.”

On breaking Gene Snitsky’s orbital bone: “Yeah, I was amped, because we’re coming in and pay-per-view. I’ve been in the back selling and they told me, before I went out. They were like, this is your spot to shine in this main event match. They told me they were like, we need you to be a house of fire. And, man, I just overdid it. I had thrown endless number of flying forearms, and that one, I still remember hitting him and feeling the crunch and being like, Oh God. Vince jumped my ass backstage for that too. Soon as I came back through, Vince meets me, he jumps up from the monitor, meets me at gorilla just yelling at me for being dangerous. And he’s like, ‘You better go check on Snitsky now!’ I’m sitting there bleeding, just got took a chair shot. You know, I’m fine. Vince, thanks.”

Snitsky spoke about the incident in another interview with Chris Van Vliet, and some footage from the match with Maven is below: