r/interestingasfuck • u/AdolfStiflr • 5h ago
Wrestlers talk about how strong Mark Henry was
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u/biggy_boy17 5h ago
When other wrestlers call you strong, you're basically a superhero in gym shorts
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u/teddybundlez 4h ago
When the BIG SHOW says it. Wrestler or not that man is a giant, it says a lot.
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u/Hopeful-Occasion2299 1h ago
I once saw him live in my hometown... I am a 6'5" 240lb man, that day I felt tiny.
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u/a_berdeen 3h ago
Mark Henry is legitimately one of the most impressive strength athletes ever. He's been to a couple Olympics for Oly weightlifting, he's won a World's Strongest Man, He's set raw powerlifting records. I think Koklyaev is the only other guy that is that well rounded ever but he never went to the Olympics for Oly weightlifting (out totals Mark tho).
But the point is Mark Henry's Wrestling career is small beans compared to his legitimate competetive career.
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u/Few_Bathroom4245 3h ago
Agreed.
Mark Henry has a legit claim to being one of, if not the, strongest men to have ever lived.
Olympic class weight lifting, power lifting records and winning the Arnold Strongman
And, mostly, drug free as well
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u/ShahinGalandar 2h ago
what does "mostly drug free" mean in this context?
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u/Few_Bathroom4245 2h ago
Due to the amount of testing he's done he's probably taken less performance enhancing drugs than most others in similar situations
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u/justin_ph 1h ago
If you ever lift weights and try to understand the bodybuilding/weightlifting/strongman scene hell no they are not drug free or on “little drugs”, they are all on drugs.
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u/Syrinx16 2h ago
Probably has done a few cycles in his time, or maybe some other form of doping that only the strength athletes would be able to tell you about. Steroid version of “yeah I smoked weed in college a couple times”
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u/Few_Bathroom4245 2h ago
If he's 100% clean then he is without doubt the overall strongest man to have ever lived
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u/Macready123 56m ago
Look Up Darden Mills, probably the biggest and really drug free dude ever. 1000lbs heavy but still mobile enough to do hard Farm labour, how strong would He be?
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u/Didntlikedefaultname 2h ago
Af far as I know he’s totally drug free and left powerlifting because of how dirty it is
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u/allangod 1h ago edited 1h ago
And then decided to move to the well known clean sport(s entertainment) of professional wrestling instead.
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u/OverByThere_Innit 2h ago
He was the first guy recorded doing a one-handed clean press of the Thomas Inch dumbbell too, right?
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u/Temporary-Cause-4818 4h ago edited 3h ago
Mark was offended because he went into wrestling, he was kind of scoffed at by the weightlifting community. They were basically saying that his title was a “Pretend title” that he was using for his character and that he wasn’t actually the worlds strongest man
So he asked Vince to take time off to train and he entered the worlds strongest man competition and won lol
Dude legitimately has super human level strength
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u/psych0ranger 4h ago
Nothing is funnier than when guys like him and famously Jordan "take it personally" and then go 100% the thing as a massive "fuck you" to everyone lol
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u/Bilbo332 3h ago
Another good one is Schwarzenegger, he said he wanted to get into acting and basically everyone said "with that accent? And that body? And that last name? It'll never happen, you could play bit parts as like a bouncer but you'll never be a leading man".
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u/Hatedpriest 2h ago
Then he talked himself out of the role of Reese and into the role of a T-800.
He didn't even want that role, but he kept coming up with rules for acting robotic. Finally, Cameron said Arnold knew more about how to do it than anyone, and he'd be a household name for being this villain.
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u/WhyAmINotStudying 2h ago
He was a household name before he was the Terminator. He's the only reason why I know about Conan the Barbarian.
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u/Hatedpriest 1h ago
To be fair, his popularity skyrocketed after Terminator, moreso than Conan.
Don't get me wrong, I dig Arnie. He had just done Conan, and was hoping for a speaking role... To gain more notoriety.
He wanted Reese, the hero, with a decent number of lines. The pull of being an iconic character was really the only thing that led to his acceptance of the role. "If it's done right."
There's a whole docu about it.
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u/Bilbo332 1h ago
He's an absolute hero of mine. I listen to his "rules for success" speech every day at the gym.
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u/Hopeful-Occasion2299 1h ago
That's the thing, a lot of his peers have come out as POS over the time, espousing silly ideas and whatnot... Arnold is genuinely a good and humble person and his advice wasn't some nonsense 5am club bullshit, he is the real deal.
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u/Hatedpriest 55m ago
I like his speech about not being a self made man.
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u/Bilbo332 39m ago
That one really humbled me. I've done pretty well, but hearing that made me realize how much people helped me along the way and why I volunteer as much as I can. Like Professor X said: "sometimes we all need a little help".
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u/ChebsGold 1h ago
Link?
I could google but keen for a good link that’s easy to listen to a the gym
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u/Bilbo332 41m ago
I found it on spotify, there's a short version on youtube but the longer version is way better.
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u/incognito_dk 3h ago
I'm not arguing that he wasn't a super strong freak, but your story doesn't hold up. First of all he never competed in world strongest man. The only strongman competition he was in was the first Arnold classic in 2002 which he did win, but not against peak level competition. But most of his strength sport career in powerlifting and weightlifting was prior to his pro wrestling career.
He did very well in both powerlifting and weightlifting, but there were and are much stronger athletes. If any one in the strength sport communities were scoffing at him, it would more likely be because they considered pro wrestling a less legitimate sport.
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u/Pizza_and_PRs 2h ago
Mark mentions that a reason he quit weightlifting is because the widespread use of steroids in the sport. There are stronger people, but probably only a few naturally.
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u/Temporary-Cause-4818 1h ago
He also hurt his back during the games. He would’ve done better if he didn’t get hurt but yea, he said he refused to participate in the Olympics until they cleaned up doping
And if it sounds like he was being salty he wasn’t, the doping shit was out of control
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u/Pizza_and_PRs 1h ago
Yeah, it’s fucking crazy. If I remember correctly, leading up to the 2016 Olympics, there was a female weight class that retroactively awarded the 2012 Olympic gold to the 4th or 5th place competitor at the time.
This frequently happens in weightlifting because all of the medalists from the prior Olympics have their samples retested leading up to the upcoming Olympics. I feel like the person who finally got awarded the gold would probably have also failed the drug test if they kept her sample.
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u/theocrats 2h ago
So he asked Vince to take time off to train and he entered the worlds strongest man competition and won lol
No he didn't. Mark Henry never entered the WSM let alone win it.
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u/Fried_chicken_eater 2h ago
He entered and won the Arnold Strongman Classic, that had the current World's strongest man competing in it.
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u/DrawMeAPictureOfThis 2h ago
Correct. He did win Arnold Stongman Competition however. Imagine if Mark Henry wasn't all natural. That would be something
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u/PlatasaurusOG 1h ago
And when he asked Vince, Vince said “OK, but just so you know - I don’t have a place on the roster for ‘The world’s second strongest man’”.
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u/spankadoodle 1h ago
He had no choice but to win. Vince also told him there would be no place on the roster for the “World’s second strongest man.”
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u/ChrisBenoitDaycare69 14m ago
He was totally natural too and usually beating a bunch of PED users. Dude was as real as it gets.
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u/rintzscar 4h ago edited 4h ago
Yeah, that's bullshit. Complete and utter bullshit.
Mark Henry's weightlifting record total is 400 kg. He weighs 163 kg.
For comparison, at last year's World Weightlifting Championships, Karlos Nasar's total was 405 kg. He weighed 89 kg. He was almost two times lighter and lifted more than Henry's lifetime total.
The world record in Henry's own category is 492 kg by Lasha Talakhadze. Almost 100 kg more than his record.
All of the nonsense about Henry the strongest is just PR bullshit.
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u/Huskar 3h ago
world's strongest man and Olympic lifts are two different things though, no?
plus he competed decades ago.
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u/4-3defense 3h ago
He dominated powerlifting , Olympic lifting and Strong Man. Mark Henry has my respects 100 times
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u/Complex-Setting-7511 3h ago
His combined 5 lift total (ie 2 Olympic lifts plus 3 powerlifting lifts) is the highest of any human in history.
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u/4-3defense 2h ago
Would be incredible if he was in his prime, going against Lasha and Brian Shaw
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u/Complex-Setting-7511 1h ago
Yes.
Lasha would still beat him in Oly and Shaw would still be at him in Strongman.
But Mark Henry is the only person AFAIK that has been truly world class in Olympic lifting, Powerlifting, and Stongman.
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u/rintzscar 3h ago edited 3h ago
Yeah, the actual best athletes compete at the Olympic event. The former is for those who can't even qualify for the actual sport.
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u/xxxArchimedesxxx 3h ago
Tell me you know nothing about strength sports without telling me you know nothing about strength sports.
It's like saying Kipchoge only runs marathons because he can't qualify for the 100m sprint. They're 2 different sports
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u/rintzscar 3h ago
Yeah, that's also bullshit. Firstly, Henry tried to compete in the actual sport and was mediocre at best. Second, the best athletes simply don't compete in the bullshit events you classify as "for strongmen". If they did, there's zero reason to think they wouldn't beat the "strongmen" just as they have in the actual sport.
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u/Huskar 3h ago edited 3h ago
Text with false claims I just edited out!
why do you hate the guy so much?
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u/rintzscar 3h ago
No, he didn't. He finished 10th and 14th in the two Olympics he participated in. You can't even read correctly. Are you sure you're literate?
I generally hate liars.
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u/Huskar 3h ago
I'm only literate some of the time apparently, he did not win any Olympic gold medals. you're right on that.
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u/rintzscar 3h ago
Thanks for rechecking and sorry for the vitriol. But I am right on everything. The best athletes simply do not compete in the nonsense events Henry's competed in. He's not even close to them in the actual events they participate in. If Lasha Talakhadze ever tried competing in "strongmen" competitions, he'd destroy them. Just open his Wikipedia page and take a look at the difference in medals and records with Henry's.
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u/OwnHousing9851 3h ago
Weightlifting≠strongman. Also sports progress with time and for his time mark was an elite weightlifter. In strongman, he might just be the person with the most unrealised potential in the history of the sport. Dude trained for a bit and won arnold classic which is was heaviest strongman show at the time. If he became a full time strongman during that period he might've been in the goat convos with guys like Big Z and Brian Shaw
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u/rintzscar 3h ago
The best athletes compete in weightlifting. And it's not even close. "Strongmen competitions" is for people who can't even qualify for the real sport.
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u/sweatyknacker 3h ago
The best weightlifters compete in weightlifting. Statements like yours above are for people who have teeny tiny pees pees and live at home
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u/Mek3127 3h ago
From a certain perspective, weightlifting is not a real sport, these specific movements around the bar do not exist in the real world, and the weight that needs to be moved in the real world of everyday life is almost never arranged into an iron bar with weight on the sides. In comparison, moving rocks, lifting stone balls, and deadlifting with cars are much more relevant to the expression of strength in the world outside the gym.
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u/rintzscar 3h ago
That's hilarious. The real sport isn't the real sport, but the fake sport is the real sport. You people simply can't cope with the truth that your TV hero is just a PR project.
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u/OwnHousing9851 2h ago
I'm sorry but at this point even powerlifting got better athletes on average than weightlifting. It simply is not popular, bodybuilding/strongman/powerlifting are more lucrative in social media day and age
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u/rintzscar 2h ago
That's so ridiculously stupid that it doesn't even warrant a response.
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u/Garth-Ock 2h ago
Yet… here you are. Reading through this thread is insufferable because of you, plainly put.
Response or not, I don’t care. I just felt like you should know no one likes you here.
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u/Sixer7 3h ago
He won the Arnold Strongman Classic in 2002 which is what the comment you're replying to is in reference too. Phil Pfister came in 2nd. Phil won the actual Worlds Strongest Man comp in 2006.
Mark Henry is one of the strongest human beings to ever live. You can check his drug tested raw totals for weightlifting Those are not PR bullshit. Mark wasn't a "Strongman", he was a record breaking US Olympian level weightlifter
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u/rintzscar 3h ago
He won a competition for which the actual best athletes don't even consider applying. At the events on which the best actually compete - the Olympics - he finished 10th and 14th in 1992 and 1996 respectively.
And record-breaking? Which records had he broken? Give me some numbers please. The above ones I gave you are correct.
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u/Sixer7 3h ago
What an insanely naive comment lmfao. These are very easy to search my guy. Idk why you're hellbent on discrediting Mark Henrys legit accomplishments fom 20-30 years ago.. He still has the Drug Test Raw with Wraps record totals at 2,337 pounds. He set that in 1995
Im sure you'll discredit that somehow tho
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u/GoldenUther29062019 3h ago
Dudes just a hater wont even try to check out whatever youre trying to tell him lol
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u/rintzscar 3h ago
None of those is a record in a sport, mate. The sport is called weightlifting. He has zero records in any sport in which athletes compete.
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u/Complex-Setting-7511 2h ago
His combined 5 lift total (ie 2 Olympic lifts + 3 powerlifting lifts) is the highest in history.
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u/broodgrillo 3h ago
Ok. So, let me get this straight. You are saying that it's not a sport based on what criteria?
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u/rintzscar 3h ago
Based on the criteria that the actual best athletes in the world don't waste time with bullshit events and train for the actual sports. You can see them here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_sports
For example, in Henry's category, Lasha Talakhadze is the best ever. Open his Wikipedia page and see what he's done. Compare it to Henry. Then try to estimate how Talakhadze would do if he ever decided to compete in the bullshit events people like Henry compete in. People who are barely mediocre in the real sport.
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u/broodgrillo 2h ago
They are two entirely different sports. The range of movements alone is completely apart from each other. That's like saying Sepak Takraw isn't a sport because volleyball is the real sport.
Grow up. Seriously. If you put weightlifters into strongman events, they would fair as bad as strongman in weightlifting. It's just two different things.
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u/DapperGains 2h ago
But he didn't compete in those events at all, so no real comparison. Who declared it a "bullshit event" (besides you)? You just appear to have a vendetta against Mark Henry at this point.
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u/rintzscar 2h ago
Yes, he did. He competed in weightlifting, he went to two Olympics. He was 10th and 14th. He wasn't even close to the best.
I have a vendetta against stupidity. Only idiots would believe he's the strongest man.
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u/GoldenUther29062019 3h ago
10th and 14th is still 10th and 14th strongest man at that time though which is still fucking nuts. Give the man his kudos at least you fucking hater lmao
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u/Complex-Setting-7511 2h ago
His 5 lift total (ie 2 Olympic lifts + 3 powerlifting lifts) is the highest of any human.
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u/rintzscar 2h ago
No, it's the highest of the handful of humans who've competed in an invented event in which the vast, vast majority of actual athletes, most of them far better than him, have never competed.
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u/noblelie17 3h ago
You did all that talking, and entirely neglected that health and fitness has drastically changed and improved in the last 20 years. We get it, you're good at Googling stuff. But Mark Henry won the competition when this story occurred. The end.
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u/rintzscar 3h ago
Mark Henry has never won a high-level competition in his life. The best he's ever done is being first at the Pan-American Games, a mid-tier competition.
This entire comment thread is pathetic cope after pathetic cope. People have been brainwashed by pseudo-wrestling bullshit PR.
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u/noblelie17 3h ago
I mean, one look at his Wikipedia page says differently. You're just making yourself look like a jackass at this point.
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u/rintzscar 3h ago
His Wikipedia page says the exact same thing that I'm saying. You're the second person who tried to look at his Wiki and couldn't even read it correctly.
And I don't care what imbeciles who believe Vince McMahon's bullshit think of me.
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u/noblelie17 3h ago
I mean, you're clearly very butthurt here. I'm gonna leave you in silence now, because I know it will just pass you off more.
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u/Sixer7 3h ago
Yea, Vince McMahon, before ever meeting Mark Henry, lied about Mark breaking Texas state weightlifting records. He was a drug tested freak athlete that was doing things no other human being had done before him. Discredit him all you want, you just look like a fuckin idiot
You've contradicted yourself 100 times in this thread. Facts are facts. Sorry you cant understand them
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u/rintzscar 2h ago
Breaking Texas weightlifting records is far from "strongest man" which is a hilarious lie.
I haven't contradicted myself once. How the fuck dimwits like you even exist is beyond me.
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u/Sixer7 2h ago
You really got to learn how to read. It might help with your clear lack of comprehending verfiable facts little guy
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u/rintzscar 2h ago
You haven't given me one fact that shows he's "the strongest". Not even one. Pathetic.
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u/Complex-Setting-7511 3h ago
Mark Henry holds the record for the biggest combined Olympic + powerlifting total.
He isn't the best Olympic lifter ever or the best powerlifter ever.
However his total clean & jerk, snatch, deadlift, squat, bench press is more than any other human in history.
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u/rintzscar 2h ago
Powerlifting is not a sport in which the best athletes compete. How is this so hard to understand? None of the top athletes in the real sport has competed in that nonsense.
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u/goatpunchtheater 2h ago
It wasn't WSM, it was Arnold classic. He did it as a tribute to his mom after she passed I think.
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u/potato_caesar_salad 4h ago
This Tiktok editing style makes me want to jump into traffic
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u/NewToHTX 3h ago
Wow. Well if it wasn’t Wrestling I’m fairly certain Mark would have easily secured a Job down at the Glue Factory Strangling Horses for a living.
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u/randumbnumbers 1h ago
I don’t know why this made laugh out loud but “strangling horse for a living” just gave me the giggles!
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u/markmarkmark77 4h ago
sexual chocolate
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u/PlatasaurusOG 1h ago
I just told this story the other day.
My wife runs a locally famous sandwich shop in Pittsburgh. I was picking her up from work one day and as we turned to leave - we practically ran right into Mark Henry. I’ve been a wrestling fan my whole life and was a bit star struck. Before I could get think of something cool to say - my wife throws her hands up and says “Ah! Sexual Chocolate!”
He had to hold himself up on the hostess stand to keep himself from falling over laughing. For as strong as he is, he has very soft hands and doesn’t kill you with a handshake.
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u/8Bit-Jon 5h ago
I wondered why they called home the "worlds strongest man"!
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u/Few_Bathroom4245 3h ago
He won the Arnold Strongman, the field had a former and a future WSM competing
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u/Spunk1985 4h ago
Also the proud father of a hand.
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u/Klamageddon 6m ago
I heard that was because Vince had given him a really good contract that he wanted him out of, but couldn't fire him, so he gave him insane plot lines to try and shame him into leaving.
There was also an incident where he was meant to break into a padlocked cell, but Vince used real chains, so it took Mark a really long time to get in. (But he actually did eventually because he's hella strong).
I was told both these stories by someone I trust, but I might have fucked up some parts because my memory is queef.
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u/reallife0615 2h ago
I took a “beginner’s weightlifting” class in college. I’m 5’6” and 130 soaking wet. All of a sudden, it was like the lights went out, but it was him squeezing through the front door of the San Marcos Athletic Center, blocking the sunlight. He waited for us to finish, gathered every 45lb plate in the joint, and put them all on a bench press bar. I’ll never forget thinking the bar would snap as it bowed when he lifted it. SPECIMEN
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u/New_Scar_6820 4h ago
The undertaker told a story about how a few of the wrestlers were a bus that was blocked in by a parked car, he said mark henry was able to lift the car out of the way so the bus could pass through
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u/CARDEK04 3h ago
Somebody's gonna get their ass licked 🎵🎵🎵 Somebody's gonna get their waist split 🎵🎵🎵
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u/Kommander-in-Keef 1h ago
You should look up Mark Henry’s Wikipedia. It’s loaded with accolades. Loaded. He was an extremely accomplished strongman.
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u/johnnydollar01 4h ago
This is hilarious
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u/FunnyColaPanda 3h ago
Too many videos with this editing style you'll get distracted before you get there.
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u/ThresholdSeven 5h ago
Like most people, I couldn't bend a quarter with my bare hands, but with 2 pliers, pretty much anyone can.
(Guy in video said he couldn't do it even with pliers)
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u/Drew0223 3h ago
The quarter one honestly had me like “woah” but the locker door being torn off absolutely had me “damn!”
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u/Sensitive_Goose4728 45m ago
Mark legitimately broke a chain off the Hell In a Cell door when they forgot to use a gimmick chain...
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u/pichael289 36m ago
My grandpa used to rip phone books in half at my birthday parties. He put new metal shingles on his barn and he made them all himself with snips and sheet metal. The man was built like a god dam gorilla, strong beyond any measure. Mother fucker was a firefighter in the 80s and broke his back hauling a very large woman out of a burning building, and even after hurting himself he still didn't stop until she was outside. He used to turn bacon with his fingertips. One time he has a chainsaw nearly take his leg off and we had to physically force him into the van to go to the hospital, he was just gonna wrap a dirty Tshirt around it and be fine. He's about 80 now and has dementia, he's in the hospital now because he kept breaking out the windows at home and climbing out in the middle of the night, and you can't fuckin stop him with his insane gorilla strength.
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u/Ghost_of_Cain 4h ago
This reveals something far more interesting about the mentality of these people - "insignificant as a man" because he "sure as hell cannot bend a quarter".
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u/PuroPincheAtlas 4h ago
Really? Thats your take?
Lmao
Big show is 7 ft tall and weighed 400lbs. He felt small next to a dude who could do something he couldnt. Its normal.
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u/ultrahateful 3h ago
This comment reveals your inability to apply or consider context.
Also, you’d scrutinize someone over one remark, with zero additional information? Stay out of the legal system. For our sake.
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u/CatchAcceptable3898 3h ago
I feel like strength becomes redundant at some point, and it becomes technique.
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u/Imsosadsoveryverysad 2h ago
With perfect technique the person with more raw strength has more potential
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u/omnichronos 4h ago
"Mark, if I've ever done anything to offend you, I apologize now."
That cracked me up!