Marc Mero

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Marc Mero (2013)

Marc Mero (2013)
Data
Ring name Johnny B. Badd
Marc Mero
Additions to names "Marvelous"
"Wildman"
height 185 cm
Fighting weight 107 kg
birth July 9, 1960
Macon , Georgia
Trained by Ray Rinaldi
debut 1991
retirement 2005
Website web.mac.com

Marc Mero (born July 9, 1960 in Macon , Georgia , or July 19, 1960 in Atlanta , Georgia or July 9, 1960 in Buffalo , New York or July 9, 1963 in Macon , Georgia) is a former US American wrestler who appeared as Johnny B. Badd for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling and World Championship Wrestling and as "Wildman / Marvelous" Marc Mero for the then World Wrestling Federation (now World Wrestling Entertainment) .

Career

Marc Mero found boxing during his college days, where he worked his way up the rankings and won national championships. At the beginning of the 1990s, Mero discovered the sport of wrestling.

WCW

Trained by Ray Rinaldi, he made his debut in 1991 as Marc Mero in the WCW. Although he came from the down-to-earth boxing sport, Mero impressed most of all with acrobatic high spots - a wrestling style that was only known from Mexican leagues at the time. Nevertheless, he was only used as a jobber . Then he got a new gimmick when Johnny B. Badd , which strongly resembled Little Richard, an American singer. His manager at the time was Theodore R. Long . He played his biggest matches against Lord Steven Regal , Arn Anderson and Stunning Steve Austin, among others . He also Kimberly Page of Diamond Dallas Page in a match freed and at the same time secured the WCW Television Title.

However, he refused storylines that were allegedly not worthy of his Christian religion and so he was fired by Eric Bischoff .

WWF

Marc Mero as Intercontinental Champion 1996.

In 1996 Marc Mero switched from WCW to WWE (then still WWF), which used him under his real name. The former boxing champion appeared with Sable (Rena Mero, in real life the two were married at the time) at his side, whom he defended in his first promo against Triple H (Sable played the valet of Triple H that evening, and when he blamed her for his defeat and slapped her, Mero attacked him with a spear tackle).

When the Intercontinental Championship was declared vacant at the end of 1996, a tournament was set in which Wildman Marc Mero prevailed and won the belt. A month later, Mero lost his newly won title again to a loss to Triple H, who had received support from Mr. Perfect . However, the feud with Mr. Perfect Curt Hennig had to be dropped when he left the WWE. Mero's bad luck persisted because shortly afterwards a serious injury forced him to take an 8-month break.

Marc Mero recovered at the end of 1997 and was able to return to the WWE a little later. Together with Sable, he defeated Goldust and Luna Vachon at WrestleMania XIV the following year . Mero didn't seem to like how much Sable had become the focus of attention, so he tried to suppress her. The fans hated him for that, of course; even more so when Marc defeated Mero Sable in a career match, forcing her to disappear from TV shows. It wasn't long, however, that Marc Mero was the one to leave WWE while his current ex-wife later returned.

In 1998 he entered a Brawl For All tournament in which he was eliminated by Steve Blackman in the first round. Mero injured Steve Blackman so badly that he had to replace him in the quarterfinals. However, he lost to Bradshaw there.

After Sable quit the WWF, she sued the company for sexual harassment and unsafe working conditions for a whopping $ 110 million. Marc Mero was then fired, largely thanks to Sable. He stopped professional wrestling and managed his wife, who was hoping for her big break as an actress.

Marc & Rena Mero then divorced in 2003 because Marc is said to have beaten them several times.

TNA

Then Mero played again as Johnny B. Badd some matches for TNA Wrestling . He currently works as a presenter on a radio show promoting TNA's television shows .

title

Amateur boxing

Wrestling

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marc Mero in Wrestlin-Onlina Magazin , accessed on May 11, 2012
  2. ↑ Marc Mero on cagematch.de , accessed on May 11, 2012
  3. ↑ Marc Mero on genickbruch.com , accessed May 11, 2012
  4. ↑ Marc Mero on onlineworldofwrestling.com , accessed on May 11, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Mero, Marc
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Badd, Johnny B. (ring name); Wildman (suffix); Marvelous (name affix)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Macon , Georgia