Marc Mero is a veteran in the professional wrestling business, and he is a former boxer as well. The former WCW World Television Champion has competed in many promotions such as WWE and TNA. He is also the ex-husband of former WWE Women’s Champion Sable.
Recently, the wrestling veteran took to Twitter to reveal that he once made an attempt to be a bodybuilder apart from the plethora of sports he was into. He participated in the 1989’s Mr. Buffalo Bodybuilding contest.
“I grew up playing a lot of different sports, Hockey, Lacrosse, Football, Boxing, Wrestling. But many didn’t know I tried bodybuilding one year. 1989 Mr. Buffalo, 1st contest. Didn’t win but gave it a heck of a shot! #tbt #tbthursday,” Marc Mero tweeted.
Marc Mero reflects on his wrestling gimmicks
Apart from being Marc Mero, the former WWE Superstar also portrayed two other gimmicks. One of them was Johnny B Badd and the other was Wildman Marc Mero. During an interview with Steve Fall of Wrestling News, he mentioned that he preferred the ‘Johnny B Badd’ character more.
“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.”
Marc Mero on the Wildman Marc Mero 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.”
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