I'm watching 1996 wwf for the first time and mark mero is kind of dimes in a weird way. weird he never got big.
>>19466972Getting powerbombed by your female non wrestler manager tends to end being taken seriously, yes anon
>>19466987... I haven't seen that yet. did they really jabrone him like that??
>>19466987Sure but he already dropped down the card in a major way by that point
>>19466991Yeah. He gets treated worse and worse, booking-wise, then they run a program where he's abusing Sable, and she eventually Sablebombs him.
>>19466991Wait til he loses to Gillberg, youre in for a fuckin treat of embarrassment for this guy
>>19466972>weird he never got big.He was going strong, even becoming IC champion until he started losing his feud with Hunter Heartst Helmsley. He then tore his ACL in February and was out for almost all of 1997 - which was a year where Mero saw his peers Austin rise to main event status while Mankind, Rocky and Hunter slowly develop to upper midcard status. Add Ken Shamrock's inclusion and Marc had no chance to rise up the ranks of the WWF anymore.Plus, he got Jannetty'd by his wife/valet and that's never a good thing for any wrestler.
he joined the WWF with sable (person vince and everybody wanted to fuck)he was doomed from the start.
op here, just saw stone cold do a stunner on king of the ring for the first time, did I just witness the birth of the stone cold stunner here?
>>19466991>he actually didn't knowOh OP, I'm sorry... But Marc's entire run starting from 1998 is a humiliation ritual of titanic proportions. Facing Mero became a humilation ritual for wrestlers in the back.Foley - someone who would work with anyone - told Cornette he'd refuse a big WrestleMania XIV paycheck if he had to feud with Mero over Sable. Vince wanted to push Marc as a top heel to face Austin, but Austin refused to have a feud with Mero after Mero got powerbombed by Sable.It was that bad.
>>19467046grim. I guess he would have been kwaboty 1996/1998?
>>19467043Austin debuted the Stunner a week before King of the Ring PPV during his quarterfinal match against Savio Vega on RAW.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NhMG2_4Xpg
just finished his match with stone cold. he moves better than 90% of the wwf guys at the time, I guess because both him and austin are ex-wcw. he has a lot more of a modern style.
>>19467061thanks anon. I guess I should probably pick raw back up now that it's 1996. for a while it was a complete slog to watch in 1993-1995 so I was watching mostly the ppv's
>>19466972Sable is the living embodiment of the meme of boomers being into ugly chicks with disgusting bolt-ons. There were, many, many hot chicks in that era, but Sable fucking never did it for me. And it's fucking crazy to me that Brock hooked up with her past her """peak.""""
>>19466972Everyone on this board Marcs
>>19467073I was always a sunnyfag, but that was before I knew she was the locker room fleshlight.
>>19467066Yeah, the first half of the New Generation era is a genuine slog if you watch RAW along with the PPVs. It was that dire. Luckily, as it seems you're at KOTR, the pace will get better.Don't be too excited thinking Austin will set the world on fire immediately after his promo and RAW will start getting interesting. Between KOTR and IYH: Buried Alive, Austin was kinda sitting on his hands because Vince unironically didn't know what to do with him. Austin spent more time on Superstars than on RAW during that time.It's only in October, when Bret returns and accepts Austin's challenge, when RAW gets more interesting. You also get the start of Shawn vs Sid around that time, which is also a fun feud. Survivor Series 1996 is to me the end of the pure New Generation era and the start of the transition from New Gen to Attitude.
>>19466972He was not nearly as terrible as Mick Foley says. He did the first SSP I have ever seen. I don't think he should have had a bigger career, but I do wonder how things would have gone if he didn't have his major knee injury.
>>19467144>but I do wonder how things would have gone if he didn't have his major knee injury.I think Mero could have been a decent reliable midcard act for the WWF if he didn't get injured. But I think the more important part is how his career would've been if Sable wasn't his valet. Because getting outshined by Sable hurt Mero's stock harder than his injury did.
>>19467131>sidI've also watched wcw up to this point so I know this is going to be based if sid is back in the wwf.
/pw/ would honestly probably have a lot of fun if somebody hosted some sort of weekly watch through of 1996- 2000 and did gamethreads.
>>19466972I stand by the fact that the best part of Marc Mero's career is the time frame where he would punch people in the nuts for no other reason than to punch people in the nuts right before the TKO move that he did, which on its own looks like a good enough finisher to put down any opponent that isn't like the main event of that era but Marc just felt the need to punch you in the dick right before it. And also he never got caught doing it maybe once he did. But for the most part this guy punched like at least 30-40 dicks on TV and never got caught
>>19466987He was already screwed by then.Hell he was screwed the moment he came out with sable
>>19467165Oh yeah, for the PPV after King of the Ring, IYH: International Incident, the main event was supposed to be Shawn, Ahmed and Warrior vs Camp Cornette (Bulldog, Owen and Vader). But Warrior did a Warrior and decided to leave the Fed again. So Sid, who finally healed from an alleged neck injury back in late 1995, was brought back to return as a babyface replacing Warrior in that match.
>>19467180wasn't he a legit boxer too? I think he used the knockout punch in wcw too.
>>19467187Mero is a legit amateur boxer. He's a 3-time New York Golden Glove tournament winner - one of the most prestigeous amateur boxing titles.
>>19467194Was he in the Brawl for All tournament?
>>19467225Yeah... He got beaten by Steve Blackman in the 1st round by decision, but only advanced because Blackman saw no use competing in the tournament anymore against inexperienced fighters after beating the most experienced boxer of the tournament.Then Mero lost to Bradshaw by decision - Mero was already fucked because Bradshaw was taller than him and outweighed him, despite Mero being clearly the technically better fighter of the two.Don't be too harsh. If it was a traditional boxing match, Mero would have beaten Bradshaw's ass. But the problem is the fact that takedowns were allowed as well, so Bradshaw would just overpower Mero with his size and weight.
>>19467252>but only advanced because Blackman saw no use competing in the tournament anymore against inexperienced fighters after beating the most experienced boxerBlackman got injured training for the next round.
>>19467414Ah, I think I confused Blackman and Severn.
>>19467187No, The knockout punch wasn't like his finisher like it's been awhile since I watched any of that shit. But the TKO is like a spinning cutter if I remember correctly
>>19467554Piggybacking on this somebody really needs to do the TKO as a finisher. I think it kind of sucks that maybe because the RKO exists that they don't do the TKO but the TKO is a dope ass finisher it's just comical that he felt the need to also punch a dude in the dick every time he was about to do that move. It's like dude. All you have to do is to move. You don't have to hit the guy in the dick you're going to win from that move
>>19467416Yeah, Severn competed once and was>this shit's fucking retardedBut he was one of the few guys that had a claim on being the best fighter in the world at the time.
>>19466991Basically Mero tore his ACL which meant having to change his entire style from high flying to a more normal one. While he was out Sable got ridiculously over so he came back and did the asshole boyfriend angle and agreed to go along with getting powerbombed since he's a fairly nice guy and was like "sure, she's getting over so why not". But agreeing to go with it was his downfall because it made him look like a geek to the point where his next feud was supposed to be with Ausin who nixed it because he didn't see a point in working with someone who now looked like a giant pussy. Didn't really matter though because he was fucked up on drugs and his body was wrecked so by the time he left WWF he only wrestled sporadically, including a short TNA run during their Impact Zone days doing a program with a local radio host he's buddies with.
>>19467125Ryan Shamrock was the hottest woman from that era. Or Kat doing her Mini-Chyna thing.
>>19466972Vince only signed him because he legit loved the Johnny B Badd gimmick and was furious he couldn't use it in WWF. Mero's best work was against DDP and Pillman towards the end of his WCW run. Sucked how his career turned out.
>>19467046>Austin ruined Mero by refusing to feud with him>Ruined Storm with the boring shit>Got the piledriver banned by crying about Owen>Beat Debra>OH HELL YEAH
>>19467125Prime Sunny was one of the hottest women to ever be in the business. Her or Stacy.
>>19467558Brinley Reece in NXT/EVOLVE uses it as her finisher.
>>19466991To add on to what other anons said Sable and Mero were dating or even engaged off camera and that storyline ruined their relationship as well. Mero in the late 90's was truly cursed.
>>19467610>Johnny B Baddfor being a fruity gimmick, it was pretty based desu. I always loved watching his matches on the clash of champions episodes and wcw ppvs
>>19466972I enjoyed his Kraven The Hunter gear, better than his Johnny B Badd stuff
>>19466972He was dimes in WCW. He and his manager Teddy Long appeared on a black talk show in kayfabe, anout how important ot was he was a black champion. Long did most of the talking, while Mero stuck to his Little Richard gimmick, and the female host kept laughing because he wouldn't stop smiling.
>>19467669He left WWF with her in 1999. They didn't divorce until around the time she returned a few years later.
>>19467073You are smoking something.Sable was already better looking than the average woman, even though you could find women better looking than her.And I agree about the bolt-ons.
>>19467073Sable was gorgeous, and even more so when she returned in 2003. A little on the skinny side, sure, but ugly? No chance in hell.
janetty'd by his bimbo valet lmao
kwabhttps://youtu.be/HWVDPLctw9g
>>19467612>simpcuck steve bitchin>always bitchin
>>19468367Man you've spent almost a decade pushing this no dimes meme. You desperately need a life, and that's coming from one of the biggest NEETs on the planet.
>>19468322cooked that pig.>11/10 Aryan goddess is le uglymust be an israeli /pw/ user
>>19467073>Sable is the living embodiment of the meme of boomers being into ugly chicksthank god zoomers & millennials know better. now THIS is what a real woman should look like!!
https://youtu.be/VDzA78mv4q8?si=z7N4ABbyCGcQOdsX&t=26Honestly Mero was cool.
>>19468372>Man you've spent almost a decadeget your schizophrenia checked sonI have only been active since 2023 and never used pw before that
>>19468404>Aryan goddesslol>disgusting tits>too skinny>not athletic nor fit>just underweightAnd her face was average as far as chicks in the industry.Her prime was probably around 2003 when she settled more into a MILF look.
>>19468420Anon said there were hot chicks at the time, you insecure retard.
>>19468681No one believes you
>>19468274Her rats nest mom hair made her look older than she was.
>>19468782said everyone when you told them that you are not gay
>>19466972you're watching the only time that marc mero was ever really dimes. that whole "wildman" gimmick was the best gimmick he ever had imo but then they had him get buried by his own wife and turned him into a dimeless boxer gimmick.
>>19467558There was a time when the TKO was part of the indie shitter arsenal. It, shining wizard, slingblade, cutter, superkick...
>>19469448I accept your concession
>>19469559Ì accept that you are a faggot
