http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dyasfhvZX8 Mark Henry returned to Smackdown at the very end of 2005 and he immediately made his goal known he wanted the World Heavyweight Championship. Tearing the lock off a steel cage door, Henry attacked champion Batista en route to costing him and Rey Mysterio the WWE Tag Team Titles. In a later attack, Henry would inadvertently injure the champ, forcing him to vacate his title. A battle royal for the belt saw Kurt Angle crowned the new champion, but Henry still wanted the belt. The two met at the Royal Rumble in a match that, strangely, closed out the show. We would soon find out why. After Angle scored the victory over Henry, familiar music started to play. For the first time in weeks, The Undertaker came into the arena and he made quite the entrance, riding in a horse-drawn carriage. The Deadman raised his hands and, without warning, the ring collapsed! A shaken Angle, trying to regain his bearings on the slightly off-kilter canvas, clearly had no choice but to give 'Taker a title shot the next month.
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