8 Puzzling Things About The Original WWE Draft
5. Mark Henry Picked 17th Overall
Before 2011, Henry was one of the most baffling cases on the WWE roster. He signed a ten year contract(?!) in 1996 on the sole merit of his Olympic power-lifting fame, and was mostly a wash with injuries for that decade, save for his amusing (yet disturbing) run as "Sexual Chocolate" in the Attitude Era.
When McMahon picked Henry for Smackdown, it was at a time when Henry may have been at his most irrelevant. He also missed a year of action from 2002 to late 2003 with further injury. Leave it to McMahon to be the one to choose two guys based on size and not much else.
Henry's 2011-12 run as the curator of the "Hall of Pain" was brilliant and it fit the mammoth Henry like a glove, but damn it took a staggering fifteen years to get there.