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Post by johnnyk9 on Oct 1, 2010 7:27:34 GMT -5
I was looking forward to his heel turn before WM 13 then he hurt his knee, I recently watched his match with Leif Cassidy from final four and you can see him starting to heel up a bit
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Post by Trent Valentine on Oct 1, 2010 12:40:27 GMT -5
Like many said, he was overshadowed by Sable. While he was rehabbing his knee, Sable's popularity sky rocketed to the top. Soon he went the jealous boyfriend route, only problem was the only person he feuded with was Sable who always got the best of him. When you get powerbombed by your lover..there's no taking you seriously ever again.
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Post by dannyrctv on Oct 2, 2010 20:34:59 GMT -5
I was a fan and thought he's be one of the biggest main eventers ever if he stayed with the "Wildman" gimmick. I could just feel how over he was and how much potential he had for growth. Him & Sable complimented each other it was a good fit. Then he changed his gimmick to a more toned down heel and sabotaged his once promising career to put his untalented wife over.
Sunny definitely overshadowed Candido but Wildman & Sable were like Savage & Elizabeth. but as "Marvelous" and dplaying the jealousy angle in killed his career and I'm sorry Sable had looks but NO personality wrestling talent or mic skills I never understood how she as so over then again, that's what they do with the no talent Divas of today.
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Post by Stu on Oct 3, 2010 1:09:51 GMT -5
I thought he did pretty good with the boxing gimmick but they never really did anything with it. I remember there is this hilarious battle royal match on RAW or something where Mero is the cocky boxing heel and he is punching a guy and after he punches him he raises his arms all cartoonish trying and then punches the guy some more or something like that. Or maybe it was just raising his arms all goofy in the middle of a battle royal. I don't know but it was so funny because the fans started cheering when he did it even though he was heel. LOL Does anyone know the battle royal I'm talking about? I was there when this happened. It was in San Jose in September 1998, and they were filming Shotgun Saturday Night. During the battle royal, he was pounding on someone as you pointed out, and then stopped to do that thing where he runs in plays with his arms raised and a huge grin on his face. He would punch, dance, punch, dance,punch, dance. There had to be like five cycles, and each time, we cheered. On another note, this was the same night The Rock officially turned face. The battle royal took place after Raw was tapped. As the ring filled for the battle royal, it was clear that it was going to be full of jobbers .... until the final entrant - THE ROCK - came out to a huge ovation.
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Post by Paco on Oct 3, 2010 4:47:01 GMT -5
Can't link it but that battle royal is on YouTube.
There's a satellite version with Cornette and Cole (I think) being all "smarky" and telling insider jokes since they were gonna dub it for TV later anyway.
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Oct 3, 2010 8:40:54 GMT -5
I thought Mero did a marvelous job as the chauvinistic foil for Sable, but it's clear that creative did not have much for him afterward, except being Jacqueline's manager. The fact that his knee injury killed his ring skills completely did not help.
If you read Have a Nice Day, there seemed to be some professional jealousy between Austin, HHH, and Foley when it came to Mero's pay and how he seemed to be penciled in as a star in 1996. Since those three guys ended up main-eventing at about the same time as Mero split from Sable, it is doubtful that he could have survived the political landscape in 1999. HHH burns him real bad in his last DVD, where he said that wrestling Mero was a huge challenge because you had to do all the work, and this was a pre-injury Mero.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2010 8:43:13 GMT -5
I was looking forward to his heel turn before WM 13 then he hurt his knee, I recently watched his match with Leif Cassidy from final four and you can see him starting to heel up a bit There was an episode of Shotgun where Mero took on the Sultan around that time. Sultan's managers, MISTER Bob Backlund and the Iron Sheik, both got involved and all three beat "the Wildman" down. Then, they looked their eyes upon Sable, who was cowering in the corner. Rocky Maivia ("The Blue Chipper" and I-C champion, lol) ran to the ring to make the save. Rocky sent all three of the guys fleeing from the ring. He walks over and checks to see if Sable is okay. By this time, Mero had recovered, saw Rocky with Sable, and starts pushing him around. Maivia's trying to explain what happened and Mero wanted to beat him up. I think this was a set-up to Rocky's post-WM feud - as Mero was already scheduled to face Flash Funk (2 Cold Scorpio) at the WM 13 Free-For-All for some unknown reason. Mero's knee injury put him on the shelf at the wrong time, unfortunately. When he returned, he was a forgotten man, and they finished the break-up with Sable. I did like the odd partnership with The Artist Formerly Known As Goldust. But after he hurt his knee, Austin and the Rock just leaped over him on the hierarchy for WWF title successors. If there was no Austin and no Rock, Mero could have been a possible choice for WWF champion. But, unfortunately, I-C title gold was about all his character could really hold in a serious light with the other two around. (The WWF wasn't one for long-term heel champions. Shawn was a tweener, and they had no real other option besides him to legit hold that belt. Mero wasn't really over enough to hold the WWF title on a long-term basis, and if that couldn't happen, then they couldn't pull the trigger.)
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Post by Nomad Soul on Oct 3, 2010 14:26:56 GMT -5
I think he was about at the right level for most of his career. You could argue that he got saddled with the high-camp/ gay Johnny B. Badd gimmick in WCW, which put a cap on what he could achieve - I don't think he ever rose above TV-title level there. And as the last poster said, got overshadowed by Sable in WWF.
However, I don't think he really had the talent to rise above what he did.
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Post by chaimwitz on Oct 3, 2010 16:26:01 GMT -5
looking back on it, vince screwed up. period.
you have someone with a ligament tear basically come back and u do nothing with him but trips tears his quads amongst other injuries and he gets more titles. craziness.
mero coulda been the legit badass role.
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Post by dannyrctv on Oct 3, 2010 17:13:53 GMT -5
I thought he did pretty good with the boxing gimmick but they never really did anything with it. I remember there is this hilarious battle royal match on RAW or something where Mero is the cocky boxing heel and he is punching a guy and after he punches him he raises his arms all cartoonish trying and then punches the guy some more or something like that. Or maybe it was just raising his arms all goofy in the middle of a battle royal. I don't know but it was so funny because the fans started cheering when he did it even though he was heel. LOL Does anyone know the battle royal I'm talking about? I was there when this happened. It was in San Jose in September 1998, and they were filming Shotgun Saturday Night. During the battle royal, he was pounding on someone as you pointed out, and then stopped to do that thing where he runs in plays with his arms raised and a huge grin on his face. He would punch, dance, punch, dance,punch, dance. There had to be like five cycles, and each time, we cheered. On another note, this was the same night The Rock officially turned face. The battle royal took place after Raw was tapped. As the ring filled for the battle royal, it was clear that it was going to be full of jobbers .... until the final entrant - THE ROCK - came out to a huge ovation. I was at that show too. It was the night the Rock truly arrived. What an incredible experience to be a part of. I actyally e-mailed Mark Mero and asked him why diod he sabotage his once promising career to put his no talent wife over and his cop out excuse was that wrestling is a work and you have to do what your told if you want TV time.
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