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Personal life

In July 2000, it was said that Bigelow alledgedly received second degree burns over 40% of his body (and was hospitalized for two weeks as a result) while rescuing children from a forest fire. This proved to be false by Bigelow in an interview, as it was a kayfabe story to allow Bigelow to take time off from WCW.

Upon his retirement, Bigelow moved to Allenhurst, Pennsylvania and opened the eponymous Bam Bam Bigelow restaurant, located in nearby Hamlin Township along State Route 590, which later closed down. He then relocated to Florida, with even his close friend Shane Douglas unaware of his whereabouts.

On October 2, 2005, Bigelow was hospitalised with a broken nose and several lacerations after crashing his Harley-Davidson motorcycle in Spring Hill, Florida. His passenger at the time, Janis Remiesiewicz (Bigelow's girlfriend), suffered severe injuries and was declared to be in "critical" condition. Larry Coggins, a spokesman for the Florida Highway Patrol, stated that Bigelow would be the focus of a homicide investigation should Remiesiewicz expire, and intimated that Bigelow would likely face charges based on "the factors...that led to this crash". Remiesiewicz eventually made a complete recovery, and is still in a relationship with Bigelow.

For much of his career, Bigelow was addicted to the drug Oxycodone.

On July 31, 2006, Bigelow was arrested in Brooksville, Florida for crashing his motorcycle, thereby injuring himself and his girlfriend.