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Post by jason88cubs on Oct 17, 2020 21:38:12 GMT -5
He lost a match against HHH for the IC belt then later that month tore his ACL
When he came back, he came back as a boxer and was never the same
If he had never gotten hurt how do you think his career would have gone?
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Post by drifter on Oct 17, 2020 21:55:44 GMT -5
I don't see his run being really any better had he not had the injury. Maybe, maybe he has another run at some point with the IC title, but no way he ever ends up past the role of a forgettable champion. With those that matter being so behind making Sable a star, and seeing her as the star, Marc really was going to just be an after thought.
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Post by The Brain on Oct 17, 2020 22:37:49 GMT -5
They were teasing a heel turn and feud with Rocky in early 97 so my guess would be instead of Sultan, It wouldve been those two for the IC belt at Mania XIII.I doubt he wouldve won though.
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Post by Thunder Chunky on Oct 17, 2020 23:49:51 GMT -5
He had no chance being married to Sable
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Post by Warriah' on Oct 18, 2020 3:48:23 GMT -5
The writing was on the wall for Marc when Pettingil called him MARC MARO at Wrestlemania 12.
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Post by hbkjason on Oct 18, 2020 4:19:44 GMT -5
I liked him as the Wildman and thought he was pretty cool. I do not see his career being any better in all honesty, he was always going to be overshadowed by Sable.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2020 5:46:23 GMT -5
He was supposed to get a program against Steve Austin until he took the powerbomb from Sable, and Steve didn't want to work with him anymore because he felt his credibility was ruined. Which sounds funny as hell to modern ears, but that's what it was at the time.
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Post by hbkbigdaddycool on Oct 18, 2020 10:50:48 GMT -5
I remember thinking in 1996 that Mero was gonna be the top IC Champion in the WWF for a long time. But apparently not. Looking at June and July, the Wildman character seemed like it was gonna be huge. Then he lost to Austin at KOTR, again to Austin at In Your House, then to Goldust at SummerSlam. So when he finally won the IC Title it was out of no where in that tournament, and then he loses it 28 days later to Triple H.
From what I remember reading, Vince wanted Mero to be Johnny B Badd but couldn't of course because of WCW owning all those rights. They slowly tried to make Marc Mero seem like that as 1996 went on, changing his gear a bit, adding the tassels back to his boots and such. But he seemed doomed after losing the IC Title after a month of holding it.
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Post by stc13 on Oct 18, 2020 11:07:31 GMT -5
If he doesn't tear his ACL, I think his career plays out very differently. He wasn't getting over the same way he had in WCW, and a heel turn made a lot of sense. But once he went out, Sable really became a star and by the time he was back he was nothing more than a background player in he storyline. I think if he was healthy and had been on tv the whole time, she still would have gotten over huge, but he would have at least been able to get a bigger rub from it. Instead he was sort of just...there...and then the powerbomb really killed his career.
It's one of the more interesting career arcs, imo. He had worked his way up through the midcard in WCW, jumped to WWE right into a pretty solid spot, is in one of the biggest storylines in the company, and then within about a year and a half of the injury he's basically irrelevant. He works a handful of matches in XWF and early TNA, but for all intents and purposes his wrestling career died with the Sable angle. He had great charisma, decent talker, very good athlete and solid worker. Not sure how invested in wrestling he was after leaving WWE or what role Rena played in all of it, but I definitely think he could have had a bigger career.
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Post by k5 on Oct 18, 2020 11:31:28 GMT -5
"don't bring your wife on the pirate ship" - kevin nash
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Post by JokerFC on Oct 19, 2020 8:17:03 GMT -5
As said above? Mero jumped into a pretty sweet spot in the WWF & was initially presented VERY well. BUT he was booked really weird for a guy that Vince was crazy about & pursued pretty doggedly.
3 straight PPV losses pretty much killed his momentum stone dead IMHO. Plus it seemed that Vince wanted to go with Ahmed as the face of the IC division..that was another sore blow for him.
But when you hear Cornette & Prichard speak about his signing? Its clear Vince was crazy about him...Cornette says he had to be reminded every 2 days that he couldnt be used like Johnny B Badd because WCW owned that gimmick & indicia. But Vince thought theyd do it anyway.
In a few months Vince would be crying because Hall was acting like Razor on WCW TV...LOL.
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Post by cordless2016 on Oct 19, 2020 8:25:05 GMT -5
If he doesn't tear his ACL, I think his career plays out very differently. He wasn't getting over the same way he had in WCW, and a heel turn made a lot of sense. But once he went out, Sable really became a star and by the time he was back he was nothing more than a background player in he storyline. I think if he was healthy and had been on tv the whole time, she still would have gotten over huge, but he would have at least been able to get a bigger rub from it. Instead he was sort of just...there...and then the powerbomb really killed his career. It's one of the more interesting career arcs, imo. He had worked his way up through the midcard in WCW, jumped to WWE right into a pretty solid spot, is in one of the biggest storylines in the company, and then within about a year and a half of the injury he's basically irrelevant. He works a handful of matches in XWF and early TNA, but for all intents and purposes his wrestling career died with the Sable angle. He had great charisma, decent talker, very good athlete and solid worker. Not sure how invested in wrestling he was after leaving WWE or what role Rena played in all of it, but I definitely think he could have had a bigger career. I watched a shoot interview Mero did once where he said after he left the WWF that him and Sable decided that he’d be home more to be with their daughter while Sable focused on her modeling career since she had more potential at the time. I always assumed this was why we never saw him back in WCW or last longer than he did in the wrestling business. |
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Post by stc13 on Oct 19, 2020 13:40:18 GMT -5
If he doesn't tear his ACL, I think his career plays out very differently. He wasn't getting over the same way he had in WCW, and a heel turn made a lot of sense. But once he went out, Sable really became a star and by the time he was back he was nothing more than a background player in he storyline. I think if he was healthy and had been on tv the whole time, she still would have gotten over huge, but he would have at least been able to get a bigger rub from it. Instead he was sort of just...there...and then the powerbomb really killed his career. It's one of the more interesting career arcs, imo. He had worked his way up through the midcard in WCW, jumped to WWE right into a pretty solid spot, is in one of the biggest storylines in the company, and then within about a year and a half of the injury he's basically irrelevant. He works a handful of matches in XWF and early TNA, but for all intents and purposes his wrestling career died with the Sable angle. He had great charisma, decent talker, very good athlete and solid worker. Not sure how invested in wrestling he was after leaving WWE or what role Rena played in all of it, but I definitely think he could have had a bigger career. I watched a shoot interview Mero did once where he said after he left the WWF that him and Sable decided that he’d be home more to be with their daughter while Sable focused on her modeling career since she had more potential at the time. I always assumed this was why we never saw him back in WCW or last longer than he did in the wrestling business. I'll have to track down a Mero shoot interview. He was always one of my favorites. He definitely made one or two audience appearances in WCW, but obviously nothing ever came of that. Not sure if there was a non-compete, or if he was out for personal/family reasons. By the time he started wrestling again in 2001, there really wasn't anywhere to work. There were a number of guys who I think got really hurt by the WCW monopoly in 2001. Shane Douglas, Mero, Buff Bagwell. They were established guys who had some decent degree of success. But with their price tag, WWE's bloated roster, and nowhere else to work that had any decent exposure, they pretty much faded into obscurity. |
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Post by Thunder Chunky on Oct 19, 2020 14:38:59 GMT -5
I watched a shoot interview Mero did once where he said after he left the WWF that him and Sable decided that he’d be home more to be with their daughter while Sable focused on her modeling career since she had more potential at the time. I always assumed this was why we never saw him back in WCW or last longer than he did in the wrestling business. I'll have to track down a Mero shoot interview. He was always one of my favorites. He definitely made one or two audience appearances in WCW, but obviously nothing ever came of that. Not sure if there was a non-compete, or if he was out for personal/family reasons. By the time he started wrestling again in 2001, there really wasn't anywhere to work. There were a number of guys who I think got really hurt by the WCW monopoly in 2001. Shane Douglas, Mero, Buff Bagwell. They were established guys who had some decent degree of success. But with their price tag, WWE's bloated roster, and nowhere else to work that had any decent exposure, they pretty much faded into obscurity. I remember reading that when Sable was in the crowd on Nitro, she got sued by the WWF because she had a noncompete clause. I'm guessing Mero had the same. |
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Post by cordless2016 on Oct 19, 2020 14:48:06 GMT -5
Mero has one of the funniest (and sad) stories in the wrestling industry. In one of his shoots he talks about Sable going back to the WWE in 2003. He was fine staying home with their daughter while she was on the road, but when she started ignoring his calls and texts he knew something was up.
When the rumors started going around that she was cheating on him, he wanted to find the guy and beat his face in. As soon as he found out it was Brock he says that he learned the power of forgiveness immediately lol. Sad that Sable put him through that but the guy puts a funny spin on it.
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