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Ex-WWE star 2 Cold Scorpio arrested for stabbing man in gas station fight

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Ex-WWE star 2 Cold Scorpio arrested for stabbing man in gas station fight

Charles Scaggs, known for performing as a professional wrestler with the name 2 Cold Scorpio, is claiming self-defense after he was arrested in Missouri for stabbing another man in a gas station fight.

Scaggs, a security guard at the Love’s Travel Stop in Kansas City, told police he observed a man lighting up a cigarette inside the store and confronted him at 3:40 a.m on June 15, according to TMZ.

Scaggs told police the man grew angry and yelled at him, “F you the f–k you gonna do?”

Former wrestling star 2 Cold Scorpio — who won a WCW Tag Team Championship with Buff Bagwell in the early 1990s — was arrested on June 15 for violently stabbing a man during a gas station fight. Flickr / Tabercil
According to court documents, obtained by TMZ Sports, the bloody incident happened at around 3:40 AM at a Love’s Travel Stop in Kansas City, Mo. Google Maps

The alleged victim told TMZ that he did not light the cigarette inside the store, but that “it might not have been fully extinguished” when he walked in.

Scaggs told police that the man threatened him, they took it outside and the man scuffled with him.

The ex-pro wrestler alleged that he took his knife out of his pocket and stabbed the man several times in self-defense.

Police said they found the alleged victim “bleeding from his head, chest, buttocks, legs and abdomen”, according to TMZ.

Authorities say 2 Cold Scorpio — aka Charles Scaggs — told them he was working as a security guard at the store … when he saw a man who had lit up a cigarette inside of the establishment. TMZSports.com

At the hospital, the man told police that it was Scaggs who started the fight.

Scaggs was charged with two felony counts — first-degree assault and armed criminal action — and pled not guilty.

His next court date is in July.

Scaggs stared across multiple pro wresting outfits in the early 90s. WWE

Scaggs was most successful as a pro wrestler in the 1990s, going from WCW to ECW to the then-WWF.

In a short stretch, he and Marcus Alexander Bagwell — later known as “Buff Bagwell” — were WCW’s tag-team champions in 1993.

Scaggs feuded with the biggest names in ECW at the time he was there, including Taz, Sabu and Shane Douglas.

Scaggs claims he was acting in self-defense. WWE

Ron Simmons was a tag-team partner of 2 Cold Scorpio’s in both WCW and WWE.

Scaggs has spent most of the 21st Century performing at Pro Wrestling Noah in Japan and the independent circuit.

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