Mark Henry is an American wrestler, professional wrestler, weightlifter and powerlifter. Two-time Olympic champion (1992 and 1996) in weightlifting (heavyweight). Member of the Pan American Games in 1995, where his US team won first place, and Mark himself won several bronze, silver and gold medals. As a powerlifter, he was the WDFPF world champion in 1995, and also two-time national champion of the United States of America in 1995 and 1997.
The way to wrestling
Mark Henry is the only athlete in the world who has simultaneously held the championship title in such sports disciplines as weightlifting and powerlifting. The athlete is 193 centimeters tall and weighs 191 kilograms. Mark is the owner of an absolute world record in powerlifting (without specialized equipment): squatting with a barbell - 430 kilograms. Henry has inhuman power: his mass of blow can reach up to 800 kilograms. In 1996, the American heavyweight joined WWE, an entertainment public company engaged in wrestling events. In 2011, he became the WWE world heavyweight champion.
Biography of the American "heavyweight"
Mark Henry was born on 06/12/1971 in the city of Silsby (Texas, United States of America). As a child, he was a big fan of wrestling, and Andre Giant was considered his favorite character. As a child, he had the opportunity to touch the idol, when he in Beaumont (Texas) passed the corridor of fans to the wrestling ring. Mark Henry wanted to reach Andre Giant, but tripped over a barricade and fell at the feet of a French wrestler. Andre lifted Mark out of the crowd and threw him back behind the fence.
When Mark was 12 years old, his father Ernst, who had diabetes, died. At age 14, Henry was diagnosed with dyslexia.
Mark comes from a family in which almost all men were of impressive dimensions. His uncle Miracles with the growth of 205 centimeters weighed 226 kilograms. He could never buy normal shoes in ordinary stores. Due to the lack of the right size, I had to do everything to order. Uncle Miracles was known as the most powerful and powerful person in East Texas.
Mark Henry vs Big Show
In 2011, at the wrestling show Revenge (a professional wrestling show hosted by WWE), Henry had to defend his title against Paul Randall White (nickname: Giant, Big Show). The fight was interesting and exciting, the fighters even broke the ring. However, the result of the battle was not announced, and the champion title remained with Mark Henry.
After a while, on the wrestling show “Survivors Series” (November event from WWE), the heavyweights confrontation repeated. This time, Henry again defended the honor of his champion title. During the wrestling show, he was disqualified for a forbidden kick in the groin. Enraged by such an act, the Big Show repeated the trick with Henry, who had experimented on it six months ago: holding his foot on Mark with a stool, the Big Show jumped with all his weight on his opponent, thereby knocking him out. A few minutes later, Mark Henry told everyone that he left after such a shock, and entered the ring again. Seeing the rival on his feet, the Big Show went to the platform and again knocked out the former weightlifter.