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Mark Jerrold Henry [ 17 ] born June 12, [ 4 ] is an American former powerlifter , Olympic weightlifter , strongman , and retired professional wrestler. He is best known for his year career in WWE. Henry is a two-time Olympian and [ 2 ] [ 18 ] and a gold, silver, and bronze medalist at the Pan American Games in National Champion [ 9 ] and [ 8 ] and once held an American record in the deadlift.

In weightlifting , Henry was a three-time U. National Weightlifting Champion , , , [ 11 ] an American Open winner , [ 14 ] a two-time U. In strongman , Henry won the inaugural Arnold Strongman Classic in Henry was born in the small town of Silsbee in East Texas, 90 miles northeast of Houston. Henry comes from a family in which almost all of the men are larger than average, especially his great uncle Chudd, who was 6 ft 7 in, weighed approximately lb kg , never had a pair of manufactured shoes, and was known as the strongest man in the Piney Woods of East Texas.

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Henry played football in high school until his senior year, when he strained ligaments in his wrist during the first game of the year and scored below on the SAT. By the time Mark Henry was in the fourth grade, he was 5 ft 5 in 1. At the Texas High School Powerlifting Championships in April , Terry Todd , a professor of kinesiology at the University of Texas at Austin and former weightlifter, spotted Henry and persuaded him to go to Austin after he graduated to train in the Olympic style of weightlifting.

Mastering the technique of weightlifting usually takes many years of practice, but Henry broke four national junior records in weightlifting after only eight months of training. At the age of 19, [ 1 ] Henry had already managed to qualify for the weightlifting competition at the Summer Olympics , where he finished tenth in the Super- Heavyweight class.

In late he took the win at the USA Weightlifting American Open [ 14 ] and further proved his dominance on American soil by winning not only the U.