4 WWE Superstars Vince McMahon personally fired and 4 he hired

#5 Vince McMahon hired Marc Mero (and Sable)

Anybody who listens to Bruce Prichard’s Something to Wrestle With podcast will know that Vince McMahon was a huge fan of a particular WCW performer – Johnny B. Badd – in the 1990s.

The WWE Chairman enjoyed the three-time World Television Champion’s work so much that he agreed to every demand that was thrown at him during contract negotiations in 1996, including a big signing bonus.

Unfortunately for Vince McMahon, the Johnny B. Badd character was unable to be used on WWE programming due to a rights issue with WCW, so his new Superstar was renamed Marc Mero and given a ‘Wildman’ character.

Speaking on Steve Austin’s podcast in 2019, Mero revealed that he also wanted Vince McMahon to pay for his wife to travel around the world with him while he performed for WWE.

Although Vince McMahon agreed to that request, he rejected Mero’s pitch to have his wife support him at ringside as a valet – until, that is, the WWE Chairman realized that his wife was Sable.

“We fly in, and we walk into Vince's office, and he sees her. He goes, 'I've got to put her on television.' And that's how it started.”

Sable, who is now married to Brock Lesnar, went on to have two spells with WWE over the course of five years between 1996 and 2004.