When reflecting on the 'Attitude Era,' you'd be forgiven for overlooking the story between Marc Mero and Sable, but just barely. In an era of impossible heights, where stars like Stone Cold Steve Austin, Shawn Michaels, Triple H, The Undertaker, Kane, The Rock, Mick Foley and others were reigning supreme, there were other acts in the Attitude Era that were just as entertaining, if not as oft-remembered.
Marc Mero and Sable was one of those acts. The real-life married couple played characters on tv (she a beautiful, blonde bombshell, and he an overbearing, borderline abusive husband), and those characters captured the imagination of viewers just as much as Austin 3:16 did.
Marc Mero recently appeared on Fightful Overbooked's In The Weeds, where he discussed his partnership/feud with Sable with Jeremy Lambert and SP3.
"It was so much fun to do that. Sable and I were married at the time and we would come up with ideas to hate me more and more. I was always putting her over and slipping on a banana peel. Dress her up in a potato sack and she rips it off and has a string bikini on. Vince Russo was so instrumental in that because we would talk to him all the time about things we could do and can’t do. We’d really push the envelope, especially when we did the painted hands on her. I remember Vince Russo coming into the dressing room and we said, ‘Can we do this?’ He goes, ‘I have to run this one by Vince.’ Vince was like, ‘We’re pushing the envelope, but go for it.’ We had a lot of fun doing that. Obviously, the more heat I would get. It was building me up as this heel and I would eventually work with Steve Austin. Getting her over so much and letting her powerbomb me and beating me up, it ruined my chances of working with Stone Cold because he didn’t want the perception of, if a girl can beat this guy up, why would I want to be in the ring with him? I can totally understand that now, but at the time, she’s making more and more money, her merchandise is selling second to Stone Cold. At least one of us was over majorly and I’m getting a guaranteed contract at the time, so I’m making the same money win or lose," Mero said.
Sable was the breakout star of that angle but for anybody who was paying attention, they know that Mero was instrumental in her success as well.
Nowadays, Mero has traded his wrestling tights and boxing gloves for a microphone. He's a motivational speaker and he's just as good in front of a crowd now as he was then. Fans can follow Mero on social media. To read about Mero's first gimmick, Johnny B. Badd, click here.
Check out the full interview with Marc embedded above.
