Video: Marc Mero's powerful speech moves entire middle school to tears

Former WWE star Marc Mero

Former professional wrestler Marc Mero’s strong and emotional message about a mother’s love left every middle school student present in the room shedding tears and that video has gone viral on the internet.

The former WWE and WCW champion, who has his own non-profitable organisation called Champions of Choices in Florida, has been spreading around his views on anti-bullying all over the schools in United States.

And in this video, Marc talked about how he ignored his mother and went down on a destructive path in his teenage life even though she was the only person that believed in him. "My mom, she really empowered me to become special in sports," Mero said in the video. "The greatest gift my mother ever gave me was [that] she believed in me."

Marc then went on to describe his life in pro wrestling and how he landed in Japan. While working there, he got a late-night call from his Japanese promoter about his mom passing away back in the States. From revisiting his feelings during the funeral to calling her his “Hero”, take a look at this moving speech from the former wrestler: