Retired professional wrestler and a former three times WCW World Television Champion Marc Mero who is also a former WWE Intercontinental Champion recently talked about his three year run in WWE and explained why the promotion never got behind him.
“Marvellous” Marc Mero started his professional wrestling career back in 1990 and worked on a number of independent circuit promotions. In 1991 he got his big call as he signed a professional contract with WCW. He had always been treated as a solid mid card in WCW. He had a number of memorable feuds in the promotion and he also won the WCW World Television Championship three times in total. He spent a total of five years in the promotion.
Marc Mero Explains Why WWE Never Got Behind Him
In 1996, he was approached by WWE for the first time in his career and he started working in the promotion. Once again he was treated as a mid card. His real life wife Sable also made her professional wrestling debut as a valet of her husband. Needless to say, Sable turned out to be a bigger star than her husband in WWE. Mero was a solid mid card in WWE, as mentioned and he did pretty good in the promotion.
He won the WWE Intercontinental Championship one time which was a huge price to have in WWE during the time. He had a total of 3 years in the promotion and in 1999 he departed from WWE. After his WWE departure, he returned to WCW once again but this time for a short amount of time only. In 2004 he worked in TNA Wrestling for one year only and in 2006 he decided to retire from in ring action.
Marc Mero who is also a former WWE Intercontinental Champion recently spoke to WrestlingNews.co where he talked about his three year run in WWE and explained why the promotion never got behind him. He said;
“I gotta tell you, I enjoyed the Johnny B Bad character so much more. It was actually really difficult when I first came to WWE in creative because we realized we can’t use the character Johnny B. Badd from WCW because they own that character. I remember in creative they kept drawing different things that they’re presenting to me and they had this character Wildman Marc Mero.
“I didn’t really get it and part of not getting it is like I remember Vince saying in the meeting, he goes, ‘Can you do like a Tarzan yell?’ I’m like, ‘I don’t have a very strong voice.’ It was almost like Ric Flair‘s woo. Like they wanted me to do this Tarzan yell and I just felt so uncomfortable doing it. It was like, what is a wildman? Am I from a jungle? Am I like Tarzan?”
“So I never connected with it, and unfortunately, I don’t think the audience connected with it as much as they hoped for and I hoped for. But the blessing was, you know, having my my wife at the time, Sable, we connected in a different way where she really got over and, you know, at the time I was so happy for her because it’s happy for us because we’re a married couple, you know, so it was a it was an incredible time in our lives.
“But also, it was sad and detrimental and everything else that happened along the way. But you look back on life and I think, of all the paths I took, good or bad, all led to where I am today. I couldn’t be happier or more blessed. So anything bad that happened, I’m like thank you, because, you know, through our struggles, we find our strength. Your current trial could be your future testimony and I never realized that until later, I look back on my life and go, wow, if I didn’t go through that, I could never talk about what I talk about today and understand what other people go through.”
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