16 Things We Learned From Mark Henry On Talk Is Jericho

Read about the hand, the rib that nearly drove him to quit and that dump in The Rock's food.

Despite having a rocky start to his pro wrestling career, Mark Henry is in the midst of a run that has spanned 19 consecutive years with World Wrestling Entertainment. The World's Strongest Man has come a long way from his early days as a member of The Nation of Domination, being handed several different gimmicks to varying levels of success before someone finally realized that taking a power-lifting monster like Henry and turning his character into a power-lifting monster was the right direction to go. Henry has had to very distinct eras of his career, as comedy mid-carder Sexual Chocolate and as the caretaker of the Hall of Pain. Behind the scenes his colleagues speak highly of him and anyone who can last nearly two straight decades in the cutthroat political atmosphere within the WWE has to be tough and affable at the same time. Mark took some time to speak with Chris Jericho about a myriad of topics from his lengthy career, his friendship with The Rock, complex relationship with The Undertaker and the time he almost attacked Chris Benoit, Eddie Guerrero, Perry Saturn and Dean Malenko. Here's what we learned from The World's Strongest Man...
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