Mark Henry reveals that he once threatened to “kill” Shawn Michaels at the start of his WWE career
WWE Hall of Famer Mark Henry spoke with Inside The Ropes and shared a story that involved Shawn Michaels from the start of his WWE career. Here is the exchange…
Inside The Ropes: “I do have to ask you, kind of off the back of the hazing thing you were talking about—and you’ve talked about this publicly—that you were sent to Canada because you threatened to kill Shawn Michaels.”
Henry: “I broke my ankle, and like I said, wrestlers always act—in some ways—very childish, and they hid my crutches.
So now I’m sitting there. I can’t go to the bathroom. I can’t go get something to drink. I can’t leave the hazing. Everybody’s just like, ‘Oh man, that’s messed up, man. They took your crutches.’
And then right about that time, the Kliq shows up. It’s Shawn, it’s Razor, Scott Hall, Kevin Nash, and Sid. X-Pac wasn’t there yet. It was like, you know, them guys.
I told Shawn, I said, ‘Hey man, I don’t feel like playing. Enough is enough. I’ve been doing this all day. I’m done.’
And he was like, ‘But how are you going to get home?’ He just kept pushing the button.
And I said, ‘You’re too little to be talking to me, man. I’ll kill you.’
I said, ‘There ain’t enough people standing behind you right now to stop me from taking your life, and you over here playing with your life like that.’
And he’s like, ‘What? Who are you talking to?’
I said, ‘I’m talking to you, and there ain’t nothing you can do about it. If y’all want to do something, now is the time.’
I had a cast on my leg. I said, ‘Go for it. If you don’t kill me, I’m gonna kill every last one of you when I get back.’
And Sid is—I said to him, like, ‘Get out of here, man. He’s gonna be the first one to run like a coward when he sees what I do to one of y’all.’
It’s the guys that talk the most. It’s the guys that get all bent out of shape. They ain’t comfortable with pain.
I grew up with pain. I’ve seen murder as a kid. I’ve seen dead bodies. You think I’m afraid of you?
Shawn was like, ‘Hey, y’all need to do something with this dude. He is nuts.’
I wasn’t nuts. I was real.
And Vince [McMahon] was like, ‘Damn it. You can’t threaten the top guys.’
I said, ‘He wasn’t acting like a top guy. He challenged me. Ain’t no man gonna stand in front of my face and challenge me like that and not be suited for it. At least have a gun in your hand or something.’
I’ve had guns pulled on me before. I’m still here.
So Vince was like, ‘Look, Bret [Hart] has a camp up there in Calgary, and I can’t fire you. I can’t. So you’re going to have to go away and learn how to be more tolerant in this business.’
And so Bret basically was the one that invited me to Canada.”