What bothered him more was that Edgar was left to languish while McGregor … He later tried unsuccessfully to bag the vacant Intercontinental Championship at Elimination Chamber but was eliminated by Sheamus. Before becoming a professional wrestler, Henry was a successful powerlifter as well as weightlifter. Subsequently, he took a hiatus from wrestling due to an unspecified injury. In 1999 WWF Intercontinental and WWF European Championships, he helped Jarrett win both the match and the title. However, a back injury dampened his game. At the recent Royal Rumble of 2017, Henry finished at the sixth spot eliminated by Braun Strowman. Edgar (23-6-1 … Though injuries have played a spoilsport for Mark Henry, his established persona of a ruthless and powerful man terrifies his opponents till date. Labelled as the World’s Strongest Teenager and later as the World’s Strongest Man, Henry is a two time Olympian and a gold, silver and bronze medallist at Pan American Games. At the 1995 Pan American Games, Henry won 3 medals in the super heavyweight division — a silver medal in the weightlifting total as well as a gold medal in the snatch and a bronze medal in the clean and jerk. In August 2003, Henry returned to WWE television on the Raw roster. Labelled as the World’s Strongest Teenager and later as the World’s Strongest Man, Henry is a two time Olympian and a gold, silver and bronze medallist at Pan American Games. He is credited for the biggest raw squat and raw powerlifting total ever performed by a drug tested athlete. Powerhouse Pro Wrestler Mark Henry also known as The World's Strongest Man is a wrestler in WWE. Following this, he suffered from hyperextended knee that kept him away from the ring. It was due to his speech that he was granted a WWE Championship match against Cena at Money in the Bank for the only title that he never held. It looks like third time’s the charm for coach Mark Henry in preparing Frankie Edgar for a long-awaited matchup with Max Holloway. He was two times an Olympian in 1992 and 1996 and a Silver, Gold and Bronze Medalist at the Pan American Games in 1995. In 1996, he joined WWE. The following year, he became a North America, Central America, Caribbean Islands (NACACI) champion. Two years later, he was diagnosed with dyslexia. https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/mark-henry-11759.php, Celebrities Who Look Beautiful Even Without Makeup, Celebrities Who Are Not In The Limelight Anymore. In 1990, he won the National High School Powerlifting Championships. The following year, he became a North America, Central America, Caribbean. In weightlifting, Henry was a three-time U.S. National Weightlifting Champion (1993, 1994, 1996), an American Open winner (1992), a two-time U.S. Olympic Festival Champion (1993 and 1994) and aNACAC champion (1996). Later, he teamed with R-Truth and Goldust in a feud against Titus O'Neil and The Shining Stars, which they convincingly won. He defeated Kane and Big Show in a Triple Threat match to capture the ECW Championship. https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Mark_Henry?oldid=3916352. Starting it off as an underdog in the event amongst the strongest of men, Henry surprisingly won all the four events thus claiming the title of ‘World’s Strongest Man’. Three years later, at the 1995 Pan American Games, Henry won a silver medal in the super heavyweight division. Mark Henry and Frankie Edgar Henry’s career training fighters didn’t begin until about ten years ago when he met Frankie Edgar. Mark Henry’s record breaking achievements and feats in powerlifting and weightlifting made him immensely popular. More determined than ever to focus on Olympic weightlifting, he began competing in earnest everywhere in the world. Beginning his weightlifting training in 1990, Mark moved to Austin and won The National Junior Weightlifting Championships in 1991. He became the youngest man in history to squat more than 900 pounds without a squat suit, the youngest to total more than 2,300 pounds raw and the only person to accomplish these feats under 25 years of age. After a nine-month hiatus from wrestling, Henry returned to the ring on February, 2013 brutally attacking Daniel Bryan, Rey Mysterio and Sin Cara. He was traded to the Raw brand in June 2009. Fandom may earn an affiliate commission on sales made from links on this page. He is credited for the biggest raw squat and raw powerlifting total ever performed by a drug tested athlete, regardless of weight class as well as the greatest raw deadlift by an American citizen. Mark Henry began his pugilistic career as a boxer at 12 years old, boxed for the US Army and continuously trained and conditioned all his adult life. In 2012, At Night of Champions, he defeated Orton to become World Heavyweight Champion for the first time in his 15 years of career with WWE. Since an early age, Mark Henry was fond of wrestling. Mark Henry is married to Jana. In June 2009, Mark Henry was traded to Raw brand. Unperturbed by the loss, he faced Rey Mysterio in the ring in a non-title match which he won convincingly. In 2011, a technical snag during his match against Randy Orton outraged Mark Henry so much so that he became violent in the ring. Most of Henry’s frustration goes back to things McGregor’s coach, John Kavanagh, said about his fighters. He made his television wrestling debut match in September 1996. After it healed, he continued to feud with The Undertaker, before being moved to the ECW brand in June 2008, where he had Tony Atlas as a manager.