11 Off-Air WWE Moments You Weren't Supposed To See

9. Mark Henry Can't Get The Cage Door Open

This was mysteriously uploaded online the day after it happened back in 2006. It's believed to have been an internal leak since WWE was using secure fiber optic connections instead of open satellite feeds for sending most SmackDown tapings back to Connecticut.

You've probably seen it a million times and know how it's commonly been described: The door or lock is gimmicked, but Mark Henry is too dumb to figure out how to break it open and takes forever, grinding the match to a halt. But that's not what actually happened.

Someone forgot to properly gimmick the door to come off its hinges and they were using a real chain. Not to be deterred, Mark Henry did everything he could to break the chain and got into the cage. On TV, with the magic of editing, it looked seamless.

WWE was very lucky that night for two reasons:

It wasn't on a live Raw, where the wrestlers in the ring couldn't just stand around looking confused. The guy breaking into the cage was Mark Henry, the actual world's strongest man, and not someone like Kane who plays a monster heel but is not freakishly strong by any stretch of the imagination.
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Formerly the site manager of Cageside Seats and the WWE Team Leader at Bleacher Report, David Bixenspan has been writing professionally about WWE, UFC, and other pop culture since 2009. He's currently WhatCulture's U.S. Editor and also serves as the lead writer of Figure Four Weekly and a monthly contributor to Fighting Spirit Magazine.