8 One-Time WWE Champions Who Deserved A Second Reign

6. Mark Henry

Welcome to the Hall of Pain! Who would have thought that Mark Henry would have been a great World Heavyweight Champion? Henry had signed a ten year, $10m contract in 1996. It was hoped/believed that The World's Strongest Man would become a genuine star and be worth the investment. He wasn't. Proving to have little aptitude for the grap game, Henry was so bad that WWE decided to punish him with a series of demeaning gimmicks. When it did try and push him seriously, such as in 2006, it proved to be a mistake: despite his massive size and legitimate athletic accomplishments, fans just didn't take him seriously. WWE had turned him into a midcard. With the WWE roster paper thin in autumn 2011, WWE tried again. Adopting a super-serious, ass kicking attitude, Henry went on the war path and finally looked the dominating force that he should have been for years. Henry won the World Heavyweight Title from Randy Orton at Hell in a Cell. He dropped the belt two months later at TLC, when Daniel Bryan cashed-in his Money in the Bank contract following Henry's match with Big Show. Mizark never got a run with the belt and, now that his career is winding down, it's doubtful that he ever will.