Marc Mero has a pretty strong opinion on who would win a match between Johnny B Badd and The Wildman.
Former WWE Superstar Marc Mero was a guest on The Ten Count with Steve Fall to discuss a wide variety of subjects. When asked who would win a fight between Wildman Marc Mero and Johnny B Badd, Mero expressed how much more he enjoyed playing B Badd over The Wildman.
“You know, I gotta tell you I enjoyed the Johnny B Badd character so much more,” Marc Mero admitted. “It was actually really difficult when I first came to WWE and in creative, and we’re trying to figure it out because we realized we can’t use the character Johnny B Badd from WCW because they own that character.
“And I remember in creative they came up with drawings and different things that they were presenting to me, and they had this character Wildman Marc Mero and I didn’t really get it in part of not getting it it’s like, Vince saying in the meeting he goes can you do like a Tarzan yell? And I’m like man; I don’t got a very strong voice, you know?
“And it was almost like Ric Flair’s Wooooo!, 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? What am I? So I never connected with it. And unfortunately, I don’t think that the audience connected with it as much as they hoped for and I hoped for.
“But the blessing was having my wife at the time, Sable; we connected in a different way where she really got over, and at the time, it’s like I’m so happy for her because it’s happy for us because we’re a married couple. So it was it was an incredible time in our lives. But also, it was sad and detrimental and everything else that happened along the way.
“But if you look back on life and I think, man 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 happened, I’m just like, thank you. Because through our struggles, we find our strength. And 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 talked about today and understand what other people go through.”
Mero would go on to reveal the hand gesture he would do in front of his face as The Wildman came from John Travolta’s character in the movie Pulp Fiction.
“Yeah, that was from, oh gosh, what was the name of that John Travolta movie he was in? It was a Quentin Tarantino movie. Pulp Fiction, yeah, that’s where that all came from. It was like, what am I trying to do with this character?”
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