Marc Mero On Sable, Stone Cold Refusing To Work With Him, Life After Wrestling, Brawl For All
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How did Dusty Rhodes create the Johnny B Badd persona?
Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Van Vliet!
Mark, we've been talking about doing this for so long. We're finally here. So thank you for making this happen. Oh man, I'm excited. When I heard you were in town, I said, oh man, we got to make this happen. And here we are. Here we are. Congratulations on the book. Oh, thank you. It did really well. And I was, you know, it's finding someone, you know, Ben Veal, who co-wrote the book with me, find someone that can take your words and make them into life and where people are reading and going, oh my gosh, I feel like I'm there. It did really well, but it's still doing really well. Yes. Like people are still talking about it.
What challenges did Marc Mero face transitioning to WWE?
Like your story is so amazing and we're going to dive into it throughout this episode. But I'm curious, do you think that life after wrestling has been more successful for you than when you were in it? By far. It's like in life, you know, it's not like finding your calling, you know, it's like wrestling was entertaining, but what I do now is life changing and there's no greater joy than helping another person. And I found, you know, that joy through so much heartache and loss and brokenness and stories that people can relate to. And I think that's why it's been so successful. Well, that Mother's Day video gets me all the time. A mother's love, which is, it's, you know, full circle that we're sitting here in the Diamond Dallas Page Performance Center here, DDPY's Performance Center.
His team filmed that video. And if someone hasn't seen this, oh my goodness, pause this and go watch it. It's five minutes long. It's just so powerful. Talk to me about that story and how... Dallas and his team filming that and putting it out there, how much that changed things for you?
Why did Steve Austin refuse to work with Marc Mero?
Well, whenever I came to, I was living in Florida at the time. Whenever I came to Georgia, I would stay with DDP, you know, and hang out with him. He said, we've always been great friends. You know, we wrestle each other like 200 times, you know, and he never beat me. But anyways, that's another whole story. Don't look it up. But anyways, I was, I was staying here in Georgia and I was doing local schools. And, uh, Steve, you who works Dallas's partner said, Hey, why don't we come out and film it? And so Dallas had the crew come out and film it. Cause I get photo releases and video releases at the schools I go to. And they came out and filmed it. And a couple of days later, um, DDP calls me up. He goes, Hey bro, you mind if we put this video up on YouTube?
I said, sure. He sends it over to me.
What was life like for Marc Mero after wrestling?
You know, I go, wow, that's really Steve. You just edited this video so beautifully. And next thing you know, he calls me back like a day later, two days later, he goes, bro, the video just hit a hundred thousand. I go, did it really? I go, then send it to me. They put it up on my YouTube channel. Well, anyways, the next thing, you know, this thing just explodes and, and, and celebrities like Charlie Sheen, little Wayne, uh, Damon Wayans, all these celebrities are putting it up on their channels also. Next thing you know, this one's got 200,000, 2 million, 5 million, 10 million. And it just explodes where we looked one day, we just decided to go see how many people have seen this video. And it was over half a billion people.
It's just incredible. Well, it's so easy to relate to it. Yeah. Everybody has a month.
How did Marc Mero negotiate the first guaranteed WWE contract?
There's a little piece of everybody in this video. For sure. How we may treat someone, how someone may have treated us differently. how we take it granted for life. Life is so precious and sometimes we just don't realize how important it is and how we treat each other is really the bottom line of this video. There's a line in that video that it gets me and it's, I no longer live in time, I live in moments.
Yeah.
What does that mean to you? Every moment is precious. We're always thinking about the next day, next year, or living in the past, which could be worse than that. Living with bitterness, resentment, or unforgiveness. And I just live in these moments I have. I'm going to be 66 years old.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
How did Dusty Rhodes create the Johnny B Badd persona?
0:00–0:49
2
What challenges did Marc Mero face transitioning to WWE?
0:49–1:55
3
Why did Steve Austin refuse to work with Marc Mero?
1:55–2:35
4
What was life like for Marc Mero after wrestling?
2:35–3:21
5
How did Marc Mero negotiate the first guaranteed WWE contract?
3:21–4:12
6
What impact did the Mother's Day video have on Marc Mero's career?
4:12–5:01
7
What lessons did Marc Mero learn from his struggles with depression?
5:01–5:44
8
What is Marc Mero's message of gratitude and positivity?
5:44–1:11:46
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