Professional wrestling legend and WWE Hall of Famer Mark Henry who is a former WWE World Heavyweight Champion recently revealed he hung up on Vince McMahon when he spoke to him for the first time.
Henry started his professional wrestling career through WWE in 1996. He was a member of the famous heel stable Nation of Domination and after that he adopted in new gimmick called the sexual chocolate throughout the attitude era.
Mark Henry Revealed He Hung Up On Vince McMahon Once
During the ruthless aggression era, she played the gimmick of the World’s Strongest man and till his retirement he played this gimmick only. In his long WWE career he won the WWE European championship, ECW championship, and the World Heavyweight championship.
During the AEW pay per view event Double or Nothing, he made his AEW debut. But he did not come to the promotion as a wrestler but as an analyst.
WWE always help valued Mark Henry as a huge deal. He was one of the most favourite wrestlers of the owner of WWE Vince McMahon. He was even scheduled to beat the famous WrestleMania streak of the Undertaker. After Randy Orton he was the first professional wrestler who was scheduled to beat the legendary WrestleMania streak of the Undertaker. But Henry declined to do so.
Mark Henry who is a former WWE World Heavyweight Champion recently spoke to Brandi Rhodes on A Shot Of Brandi where he revealed he hung up on Vince McMahon when he spoke to him for the first time. He said;
“I transitioned from powerlifting to Olympic weight lifting which is the over-head sports and the ones that are in the Olympics. I caught onto it and in 10 months I qualified for the Olympic team. Of course, after that, the pro wrestling world started to notice me because I used to say all the time that I was a big wrestling fan.”
“Jim Ross had a lot to do with it, but he brought me up to Vince McMahon and Vince wanted to know, ‘Well, how is that going to translate to wrestling? You need to see him and meet him because this guy’s kind of colorful,’ which is short for me being a clown.”
“The first conversation, I get this call and I think it’s one of my friends joking with me and it’s Vince. I say, ‘Yeah right, Wes,’ and I hang up on him. I get a call back from my coach and my manager and he’s like, ‘Hey, did you hang up on Vince McMahon?’ I was like, ‘That was him for real?’ He was like, ‘Yeah, how about you take his call.’ I was like, ‘Alright, my bad.’”
H/T to Fightful for the transcript