![]() Henry played football in high school until his senior year, when he strained ligaments in his wrist during the first game of the year and scored below 700 on the SAT. Henry comes from a family in which almost all of the men are larger than average, especially his great uncle Chudd, who was 6 ft 7 in, weighed approximately 500 lb (230 kg), never had a pair of manufactured shoes, and was known as the strongest man in the Piney Woods of East Texas. When he was 14 years old, Henry was diagnosed with dyslexia. When Henry was 12 years old, his father, Ernest, died of complications from diabetes. André picked him up out of the crowd and put him back behind the barricade. While attending a wrestling show in Beaumont, Texas, young Henry tried to touch André as he was walking down the aisle, but tripped over the barricade. As a child, he was a big wrestling fan and André the Giant was his favorite wrestler. Henry was born in the small town of Silsbee in East Texas, 90 miles northeast of Houston. In April 2018, Henry was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame Class of 2018. First winning the ECW Championship, he became only the fourth African-American world champion in WWE history (after The Rock, Booker T, and Bobby Lashley). ![]() Since joining the World Wrestling Federation (now WWE) in 1996, he became a one-time WWF European Champion and a two-time world champion, having held the ECW Championship in 2008, and WWE's World Heavyweight Championship in 2011. In strongman, Henry won the inaugural Arnold Strongman Classic in 2002. He holds all three Senior US American weightlifting records of 1993–1997. Olympic Festival Champion (19) and a NACAC champion (1996). National Weightlifting Champion (1993, 1994, 1996), an American Open winner (1992), a two-time U.S. In weightlifting, Henry was a three-time U.S. 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. Currently, he still holds the WDFPF world records in the squat, deadlift and total and the USAPL American record in the deadlift since 1995. National Champion (19 ) as well as an all-time raw world record holder in the squat and deadlift. As a powerlifter, he was WDFPF World Champion (1995) and a two-time U.S. Henry is a two-time Olympian ( 19) and a gold, silver, and bronze medalist at the Pan American Games in 1995. He is best known for his 25-year career in WWE. Mark Jerrold Henry (born June 12, 1971) is an American former powerlifter, Olympic weightlifter, strongman, and professional wrestler currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) as a commentator/analyst, coach, and talent scout. National Junior Weightlifting Championships USA Weightlifting American Open Championships International Junior Powerlifting Championships USPF National Powerlifting Championships USAPL National Powerlifting Championships
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