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| Mark Jerrold Henry | |
| Born | June 12, 1971 |
| From | Silsbee, Texas, United States |
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Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring Name | Mark Henry |
| Height | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) |
| Weight | 360 lb (160 kg) |
| Billed | Silsbee, Texas |
Mark Jerrold Henry (June 12, 1971) better known by his ring name Mark Henry, a American powerlifter, Olympic weightlifter, strongman, and professional wrestler who performed in WWF/E.
He was a two-time Olympian in 1992 and 1996 and a gold, silver, and bronze medalist at the Pan American Games in 1995. As a powerlifter, he was WDFPF World Champion (1995) and a two-time U.S. National Champion (1995 and 1997) as well as an all-time raw world record holder in the squat and deadlift. Currently, he still holds the WDFPF world records in the squat, deadlift and total and the USAPL American record in the deadlift since 1995. He is credited for the biggest raw squat and raw powerlifting total ever performed by a drug tested athlete, regardless of weight class, as well as the greatest raw deadlift by an American citizen.
In weightlifting, Henry was a three-time U.S. National Weightlifting Champion (1993, 1994, 1996), an American Open winner (1992), a two-time U.S. Olympic Festival Champion (1993 and 1994) and a NACAC champion (1996). He holds all three Senior US American weightlifting records of 1993–1997. In 2002 he won the first annual Arnold Strongman Classic.
Since joining the World Wrestling Federation (now WWE) in 1996, he has become a one-time WWF European Champion and a two-time world champion, having held the ECW Championship in 2008, and WWE's World Heavyweight Championship in 2011.