Professional wrestling legend and WWE Hall of Famer Mark Henry who is a former WWE World Heavyweight Champion recently talked about the transformation of the WWE Universal Heavyweight Champion Roman Reigns.
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 Talked About The Transformation Of Roman Reigns
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 SiriusXM’s Busted Open Radio where he talked about the transformation of the WWE Universal Heavyweight Champion Roman Reigns. He said;
“Roman Reigns, you talked about this [speaking to co-host Jonathan Hood], his metamorphosis has been one for the ages. From the guy that we first saw that left NXT to the guy that was in The Shield, the guy after The Shield that they force-fed him to us as a babyface.
“They were forcing it and you could tell that he didn’t embrace it. He didn’t embrace it, that’s why it didn’t work.
“He really wanted to be who he is now and he was right but he had to go through all those other phases to be able to make people give a damn and now we have the finished product.”
H/T to SEScoops for the transcript