Marc Mero

It had to be as Johnny B. Badd, okay?

First of all, here I am, a boxer from New York, right?

That, you know, my boxing career was over 10 years of drug addiction.

And then next thing you know, I get off the drugs.

I get a, I, I, I, um, I had a bunch of friends over my apartment and one of my buddies had the remote control for the television and he's flipping through the TV channels and he lands on professional wrestling.

I go, whoa, whoa, whoa, stop it there.

Let me see this.

I'm looking at the television and I get this aha moment.

You know, some people, some people call it the aha moment.

Like, and I go, guys, I can do that.

My buddies who are still my buddies today, they bust out laughing.

They go, my goodness.

the size of those guys i think it was like the road warriors were on tv they had traps from their ears coming down you know they go look at the size of those guys they're gonna pick you up and just throw you right out of that ring i said no man i'm telling you i can do that because i was always a good athlete you know and uh another friend of mine go mark you're 30 years old what do you do start a pro career now and i remember and i use this to this day and i said two words i go

I believe in that those two words changed my life, man.

So, and it's always about taking action towards a dream or goal.

And the action I had to take back then, I had to find out whether there's a wrestling school.

I didn't know how to wrestle.

I was living in Venice, Florida, and there was a wrestling school in Tampa.

Boris Malenko, Dean and Joe Malenko's father had a wrestling school.

So I drive there after working on weekends.