2 Cold Scorpio pleads guilty to second-degree assault charges

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2 Cold Scorpio aka Flash Funk | (WWE.com) Professional wrestler Charles Scaggs, best known to fans as 2 Cold Scorpio in ECW/WCW and as Flash Funk in WWE, pleaded guilty to second-degree assault and armed criminal action. The charges stem from a violent incident during which he stabbed a man multiple times in an act he described as self-defense. Scaggs agreed to the charges as part of a plea deal that will prevent him from going to trial, and he will now instead be sentenced on October 9. The stabbing occurred during a scuffle in June 2024 at Love’s Travel Stop in Kansas City, Missouri. Scaggs, who was working as a security guard at the store, asked a customer to extinguish a lit cigarette inside the building. The customer later told TMZ he did not light the cigarette inside the establishment and thought he had put it out before entering, but he added that the cigarette might not have been fully extinguished. TMZ reported the man became confrontational with Scaggs about the cigarette, and the two got into a physical altercation outside the store at around 3:40 a.m. Scaggs told authorities he pulled a pocket knife and stabbed the man in self-defense a few times during the fight. “Cops say when they arrived on the scene, they found the guy who was stabbed lying on the ground … bleeding from his head, chest, buttocks, legs and abdomen,” TMZ wrote. “They added that he was transported to a local hospital … as he was going in and out of consciousness.” When speaking with investigators later at a medical facility, the man who was stabbed claimed Scaggs was the aggressor in the incident, and the wrestler was eventually arrested and initially charged with one count of first-degree assault and one count of armed criminal action. What do you think of 2 Cold Scorpio’s agreement to avoid a trial? Let us know in the comments.

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Former WWE, WCW, and ECW star 2 Cold Scorpio pleads guilty to second degree assault and armed criminal action charges, avoiding going to trial