The Massive Present may be one in all skilled wrestling’s most iconic giants, however even he was as soon as made to really feel inferior by Mark Henry.
Standing seven ft tall, there have been few feats of power that he did not showcase throughout a legendary WWE run.
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The seven-time world champion made a profession out of dominating his opponents within the ring, maybe due to his loopy 18,000-calorie each day food plan, however there was one factor that Massive Present could not do — bend 1 / 4.
He did as soon as witness Henry just do that, although, and it left him feeling ‘utterly insignificant as a person.’
Throughout a radio interview again in 2015, he recalled the second he discovered ‘The World’s Strongest Man’ sweating within the locker room, having bent the coin along with his naked arms.
“I got here within the locker room one time and Mark was hunched over, pouring sweat,” Massive Present started.
“He simply had this actual concentrated look on his face. I am like, ‘Ah, one thing occurred.’ So I set my baggage down, I sat subsequent to him, I put my arm round him. I stated, ‘Are you alright man? Is the whole lot cool?’
“He goes, ‘Yeah. I am making an attempt to tear 1 / 4 and all I can do is bend it.’
“And he had bent a freaking quarter along with his fingers. So I simply took my arm, pat him on the shoulder. I stated, ‘Okay, simply checking on you.’
“I went over to the nook and felt utterly insignificant as a person. As a result of there isn’t any manner in hell I might ever bend 1 / 4. I do not suppose I can do it with pliers.”
Whilst a seven-foot WWE celebrity nicknamed ‘The Large’, the locker room may very well be an imposing place, particularly if Henry was current.
In spite of everything, he was famously stated to be able to squatting 1,000lbs in his prime.
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Henry was additionally a two-time Olympian who received gold, silver, and bronze weightlifting medals on the Pan American Video games in 1995.
The 360lb star received the 2002 Arnold Strongman Traditional and an array of different powerlifting championships alongside his profitable WWE profession.
And when he wasn’t intimidating the Massive Present by bending quarters within the locker room, the pair had been inflicting carnage within the ring.
Collectively, they offered an iconic pro-wrestling second, shattering the ring beneath their mixed weight.
At WWE’s Vengeance pay-per-view in 2011, Massive Present uncharacteristically scaled the turnbuckle, however as he stood on the second rope, Henry countered with a crushing superplex.
When the 2 giants got here crashing down, the ring crumpled right into a heap, bringing the shocked San Antonio crowd to their ft.
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Henry, in fact, is not the one intimidating determine the Massive Present confronted throughout his sure-to-be Corridor of Fame profession.
He famously stepped into the ring with Floyd Mayweather at WrestleMania XXIV — and suffered a brutal knockout.
The prizefighter flattened the 441lb big with a brutal proper fist — aided by brass knuckles — at hand Massive Present a memorable defeat on the Grandest Stage of Them All.
Their bout got here weeks after Mayweather’s well-known proper hand broke Massive Present’s nostril for actual in a phase that constructed as much as WrestleMania.
“At the moment the angle was a lot enjoyable as a result of it is actually onerous to do this boxer vs wrestler angle that is been finished,” Massive Present advised talkSPORT, recalling the long-lasting feud.
“It is an attention-grabbing dynamic and attempt to do it in a different way and in addition pull the followers in and make them excited I assumed the best way that entire factor was finished and the story we advised it labored out.”