The Many Faces Of Mark Henry - Ranked From Worst To Best
9. The Twilight Years
Mark Henry remains under full-time WWE contract in 2017, but he’s rarely used as a featured performer. Including C-shows like Main Event and Superstars, Henry wrestled just 21 televised matches in 2015, and 16 the following year. His appearance in the 2017 Royal Rumble was only the third time he’d shown his face since last August, and Henry, for all intents and purposes, has become a part-timer.
Every ageing wrestler has to wind their career down sooner or later, and Henry has never been as irrelevant to WWE programming as he is today. He is used sparingly at best, and his in-ring abilities have declined significantly since his Hall of Pain heyday. Sure, Henry was never a super-worker in the first place, but his lengthy injury record has taken a major clear toll on what he can do between the ropes, and his retirement can’t be too far away.
Henry wrestled for the Intercontinental Champion at Elimination Chamber 2015, then spent the rest of the year losing to the likes of Big Show and Sheamus, flip-flopping between alignments on a show-by-show basis. He lasted just 47 seconds in the 2016 Royal Rumble and was drafted to Raw later in the year, but he only ever shows up every couple of months.
It was inevitable that Mark Henry would eventually reach this stage of his career, but his utter listlessness makes this one of the worst points of his career.