Marc Mero is convinced that his ex-wife Sable deserves an induction into the WWE Hall of Fame.
Speaking on Chris Van Vliet’s Insight podcast, Mero discussed negotiating his WWE contract with Vince McMahon in the mid-1990s to enable Sable to travel with him. He talked about their divorce while still holding her in high regard and rooting for her to be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame someday, which he also mentioned in his book — “From Badd to Good.”
“Oh, absolutely,” Mero said about Sable deserving an induction. “The women’s division, they didn’t really have a women’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.”
Mero also addressed whether he believes his own career was Hall of Fame worthy.
“You know what? If you want to look at my WWF stint, no,” he said. “But if you want to look at things I’ve done with WCW as Johnny B. Badd, they were very entertaining.”
Van Vliet suggested that Mero — who is now a motivational speaker after overcoming drug addiction — would be a good fit for WWE’s Warrior Award.
“Something like that would be wonderful,” Mero responded. “If I ever did, DDP would be the guy to induct me.”
After his WCW exit in 1996, Mero moved to WWE for a run that included one Intercontinental title reign. His then-wife Sable accompanied him and learned the ropes of the industry. She also won the WWE Women’s Championship in 1998 for a nearly 180-day reign.
Following his WWF tenure, Mero had a stint with TNA before officially retiring from in-ring competition in 2006.
Chris Masters wishes more people got to see the matches he’s been having since exiting WWE.
A new episode of Insight premiered today with Chris Van Vliet interviewing Masters. During the conversation, Van Vliet asked the former WWE wrestler about any regrets he has with his career.
“Hindsight is always 20/20, but there’s a lot of things I can look back on now that I see much clearer now than I did back then. But wrestling, it’s tough,” Masters said. “There’s so much to it and you only learn, really, gradually with time, you know, to master all of it, whether it be the politics or the in-ring stuff or your character and your presentation, all that stuff.
“So there’s a lot of stuff that I would have probably done differently or that I wish I had known back then, but I know that I know now, right? And the part that breaks my heart is, like over the last 10 years, I’ve been, I’m so comfortable in the ring. It’s my place of comfort. And I just know that I’ve had, you know, some of the best matches of my career. And the fact that those aren’t happening on a bigger platform, that breaks my heart sometimes. Because it’s like, it’d be nice for people to be [able to] appreciate my work and see what I can do now and the fact that I can go out here and do everything pretty darn well.”
Masters added that he’s grateful to still be able to wrestle in front of good fans every week on the indies, where he’s having a lot of fun. He previously wrestled for the NWA as well and had two reigns as NWA National Champion.
In the same interview, Masters addressed how close he came to winning gold in WWE and how issues he had with John Cena might have affected that.
Masters had two separate stints with WWE, the first of which ended in 2007 before he was brought back from 2009-2011. He was best known for his “Master Lock Challenge,” a recurring segment where he invited competitors to break out of his full nelson submission hold, which was portrayed to be impossible.
Lilian Garcia loves being back with WWE, even if she’s no longer working as a full-time ring announcer on weekly television.
Garcia made her return to WWE in October 2024 after Samantha Irvin departed the company. Her return has included stints on both Raw and SmackDown, but Garcia revealed earlier this month that her role has changed and she’ll no longer be ring announcing weekly. Instead, she’ll be the ring announcer for Saturday Night’s Main Event, singing at special events, and working with WWE on other new projects.
While appearing on a new episode of Insight with Chris Van Vliet, Garcia discussed how much being back with WWE means to her. Before she got the call to return, she only had one month of income left and didn’t know what her next move would be. Garcia thought her time in wrestling had come to an end but is now back home in WWE.
“I knew, when they offered it to me to come back, they did tell me, ‘Hey, this isn’t like for permanent announcing for Raw or SmackDown. We just really need you right now. You know, this is a new era. We want to be completely upfront with you.’ Which I really appreciated,” Garcia said. “And I said, ‘Look, whatever you guys need.’ Like, I never thought I was going to be back. And whatever you need. I love this business, I love the people I work with. And so I’m like, I’m excited.
“So when they brought me back, I knew that Raw was going to be until the changeover in January 6 for Netflix, that I knew. And they were like, ‘Ok, now we’re going to put you on SmackDown, but we don’t know how long.’ And every week that went by they were like, ‘I’m so sorry we need you another week, is that ok?’ And I’m like, ‘Of course it is. It’s fine. Do whatever you want. I am loving this, totally loving this.’ But what was so beautiful that has evolved from it is that even though I’m not going to be the full-time SmackDown announcer anymore, they said, ‘You know what, we love having you part of this. Like, we want to extend, we want you to do Saturday Night’s Main Event. We think you’re a perfect fit for that.’ And I love it.”
In addition to working on Saturday Night’s Main Event, Garcia said WWE has mentioned they have other new shows in development that she could potentially be part of.
“Getting to be part of that — and then they’re like, ‘Look, we’ve got a lot of other shows that we know that we, you know, we’re in talks with right now on what we can do.’ So I’m like, ‘Whatever you guys need.’ Again, whatever you need,” she said. “Just, ‘Put me in, coach.’ I’m here.”
This is Garcia’s third run with WWE. Her prior stint ended in 2016 when she left to care for her father when he was dying. After the loss of both of her parents, Garcia feels like WWE truly is family.
“Amazing,” Garcia said about being back with the company. “The fans have been incredible — and just the love from that, to the people I’m working with, to the new talent that’s there, the girls in the locker room, absolutely incredible. And they all reached out to me, or they’re like, ‘We’re going to miss you on a weekly basis.’ They know I’m not gone-gone, but they’re like, ‘We’re going to miss you on a weekly basis.’ Working back with Triple H and seeing all of these people that I worked with for so many years, all the agents now that are the producers that are there. It’s my family. I don’t have my parents anymore, I didn’t have kids, and I’m not in a relationship, I’m in Atlanta by myself. So it is my family, and that’s what’s so beautiful, and the fact that they said, ‘Look, we really want to work this out to keep you in some capacity here.’ Man, that’s music to my ears and just to my heart.”
The next episode of Saturday Night’s Main Event will take place in Tampa, Florida on May 24. Airing as a quarterly special, SNME is simulcast live on both NBC and Peacock.
