Marc Mero Believes Sable Deserves a Spot in the WWE Hall of Fame, Recalls Realizing She Was Getting More Over Than Him

During a recent interview on Insight with Chris Van Vliet, former WWE and WCW star Marc Mero discussed his ex-wife, Sable, potentially joining the WWE Hall of Fame. He also spoke about his career and whether he deserves a WWE Hall of Fame induction. Below are some highlights from Insight:

Marc Mero on Fans Wanting To Cheer Sable More Than Him

“Here’s the thing that a lot of people maybe don’t realize, when you’re married and you’re in love, you’re a team. I’m thinking, I’m getting guaranteed money no matter what. If she gets hurt, she starts building her character up, she’s going to make a lot of money in merchandise and so on, right? And sure enough, you know, the more I did to lower my profile, the more her profile raised. Of course, things like have her come out in a potato sack or something. She ripped it off and have a bikini on, we were doing this over and over again, where she was always one step ahead of me. Until we came down to actually having to wrestle against each other, and she Sable bombed me. I was ready to go into a program with Steve Austin too, which that’s top of the top of the food chain, right there. When she Sable bombed me, now she’s a good athlete, but I basically Sable bombed myself. But it took me out of the program with Steve, because Steve thought, if a girl’s going to do that to him, I’m not going to let him get in the ring with me. Which people would be like, Oh, you blew the opportunity. But remember, now I’m raising her profile. We’re living at home. They’re backing up the Brinks truck to our house at this point. So when you’re a team like that, I’m going to make the same amount of money whether I get really popular or not. So I took that move or that opportunity and did that.”

On How Quickly He Realized Sable Was More Popular Than Him

“Very quickly. But it was fun, because when I became Marvelous Marc Mero, became the heel, it was all perfect. But the Wild Man character, even though I’m going to the ring and they’re basically cheering for her, it’s like, wow, how am I going to get over with this? So we changed it up. It worked out perfectly. And then had to teach her how to wrestle, because now Vince wants to put her into wrestling and bring the women’s title on her.”

On Sable Deserving a Spot in the WWE Hall of Fame

“Oh, absolutely. The woman’s division, they didn’t really have a woman’s division so much back then at all. But she brought eyes to the channels. The ratings and everything were very high because of her.”

If He Thinks He Deserves a Spot in the Hall of Fame

“You know what? If you want to look at my WWF stint, no. But if you want to look at things I’ve done with WCW as Johnny B Badd, they were very entertaining.”

Mero and Sable split up in the mid-2000s. Sable later started a relationship and married Brock Lesnar, who is still part of WWE today.