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Marc Mero On What Led To Marriage With Sable Getting Strained
Former WWE and WCW star Marc Mero joined the It’s Our House Podcast to talk about his wrestling career. Mero in particular talked about his time in WCW as Johnny B. Badd, which was created by wrestling legend “The American Dream” Dusty Rhodes. Mero talked about how much fun the two had creating the character.
“Johnny B. Badd was Dusty Rhodes creation,” Mero revealed. “As you know I was just Marc Mero back then trying to make it into the business, and when he saw me he said ‘I got this gimmick. Did anybody ever tell you you look like Little Richard?’ Now, I thought he meant a wrestler named Richard which I’d never heard of, you know, so he said, ‘you never heard a little Richard?’ He starts singing like, you know, Little Richard singing. ‘Oh, the singer Little Richard!’ And the next thing I realized was he had this Johnny B. Badd character in mind. And I gotta tell you, it was probably the most f