The Ace of Knaves
Getting Noticed By Management
Mark Henry by far.
Having been an epic fail for 14 years, I don't see Vince's need to push him at 2006. During The Attitude Era, he was involved in Mae Young Giving Birth To A Hand and was a lower mid-carder. Just so u know, three months before Wrestlemania 22, the opponents to face The Undertaker came down to Kurt Angle, Chris Benoit, and the returning Mark Henry. Vince believed, the returning Mark Henry, billed as The World's Strongest Man, would be able to pull out a classic with The Undertaker and creating another big man main eventer after Batista, especially after such main event push. Because as we knew it, Vince has always been keen on pushing big man wrestlers mainly because of his obsession to eclipse his father's success of Andre The Giant. I have even heard that in backstage, before the match, Vince was so sure Undertaker could carry Mark Henry to a legendary match.
But it turned out that, after all the hype the fans didn't buy Henry as a threat at all. To make the matter even worse, Taker vs Henry at WM 22 flopped because Taker was unable to carry Henry throughout the match, mainly because of Henry's deadweight with no charisma and slow-paced work, thus creating another horrible match for The Streak, which is easily one of Taker's worst ever. The match is widely labeled as the worst casket match ever held. The only good thing from this disaster is Vince finally stopped giving The Undertaker mid-carder giants for him to face at Wrestlemania after 14 long years and five failures in 5 different Wrestlemanias (Giant Gonzales at WM 9, King Kong Bundy at WM 11, Big Boss Man at WM 15, A-Train at WM 19, and Mark Henry himself at WM 22), because after 14 long a** years he finally realized Taker couldn't pull out a classic with talentless giants.
That's why I said this is stupid. Because Vince had all the power in this world to book Taker vs Angle or Taker vs Benoit but preferred Taker vs Henry instead. What makes it worse is, the whole push was an epic fail. The crowd didn't give a damn about Mark Henry and later that year in an interview with Henry, he admitted that he didn't care about his Wrestlemania 22 push being successful or not because he was doing it only for money! Heck, even Undertaker vs JBL or Undertaker vs Booker T would have made a better match!
And the feud was reignited back at 2007, leading to one of the worst pay per view main events of all time at Unforgiven 2007.
Let's take a look back at The Undertaker's last ten Wrestlemania victims and compare Henry to them:
Triple H = A legend, still main eventing.
Ric Flair = A legend regardless the whole flotilla.
Big Show = Still main eventing.
Batista = Main eventer during his stay in WWE.
Randy Orton = Still main eventing.
A-Train = An epic fail for life just like Henry.
Edge = Still main eventer.
Shawn Michaels = A legend.
Mark Henry = The most glorified jobber in WWE.
Mark Henry = Epic Fail for life.
Having been an epic fail for 14 years, I don't see Vince's need to push him at 2006. During The Attitude Era, he was involved in Mae Young Giving Birth To A Hand and was a lower mid-carder. Just so u know, three months before Wrestlemania 22, the opponents to face The Undertaker came down to Kurt Angle, Chris Benoit, and the returning Mark Henry. Vince believed, the returning Mark Henry, billed as The World's Strongest Man, would be able to pull out a classic with The Undertaker and creating another big man main eventer after Batista, especially after such main event push. Because as we knew it, Vince has always been keen on pushing big man wrestlers mainly because of his obsession to eclipse his father's success of Andre The Giant. I have even heard that in backstage, before the match, Vince was so sure Undertaker could carry Mark Henry to a legendary match.
But it turned out that, after all the hype the fans didn't buy Henry as a threat at all. To make the matter even worse, Taker vs Henry at WM 22 flopped because Taker was unable to carry Henry throughout the match, mainly because of Henry's deadweight with no charisma and slow-paced work, thus creating another horrible match for The Streak, which is easily one of Taker's worst ever. The match is widely labeled as the worst casket match ever held. The only good thing from this disaster is Vince finally stopped giving The Undertaker mid-carder giants for him to face at Wrestlemania after 14 long years and five failures in 5 different Wrestlemanias (Giant Gonzales at WM 9, King Kong Bundy at WM 11, Big Boss Man at WM 15, A-Train at WM 19, and Mark Henry himself at WM 22), because after 14 long a** years he finally realized Taker couldn't pull out a classic with talentless giants.
That's why I said this is stupid. Because Vince had all the power in this world to book Taker vs Angle or Taker vs Benoit but preferred Taker vs Henry instead. What makes it worse is, the whole push was an epic fail. The crowd didn't give a damn about Mark Henry and later that year in an interview with Henry, he admitted that he didn't care about his Wrestlemania 22 push being successful or not because he was doing it only for money! Heck, even Undertaker vs JBL or Undertaker vs Booker T would have made a better match!
And the feud was reignited back at 2007, leading to one of the worst pay per view main events of all time at Unforgiven 2007.
Let's take a look back at The Undertaker's last ten Wrestlemania victims and compare Henry to them:
Triple H = A legend, still main eventing.
Ric Flair = A legend regardless the whole flotilla.
Big Show = Still main eventing.
Batista = Main eventer during his stay in WWE.
Randy Orton = Still main eventing.
A-Train = An epic fail for life just like Henry.
Edge = Still main eventer.
Shawn Michaels = A legend.
Mark Henry = The most glorified jobber in WWE.
Mark Henry = Epic Fail for life.
