Mark Henry Recalls Feeling Disrespected After Being Pranked By Vince McMahon

It would never be in everyone’s best interest to prank The World’s Strongest Man, Mark Henry.

All Elite Wrestling‘s Mark Henry was a recent guest on INSIGHT with Chris Van Vliet to discuss a wide variety of subjects. When asked about one specific time he was pranked by Vince McMahon, Henry said he was lucky McMahon got out of the building when he did or they might not be having this conversation right now.

“When I looked at Scott Armstrong. And he said, ‘It’s not me.’ And he had fear in his eyes,” Mark Henry recalled. “And you can smell fear, and you can see it, and he was deathly afraid. And I asked for the microphone. And I started talking, and they turned the microphone off. And I said, ‘Okay, I get it.’

“And like that was one of the maddest times, that was the maddest that I had ever been at that point. And I’m just glad that they had, you know, got in the limo and drove off because the conversation that we’re having right now may not have happened because I’d have whooped all their asses. And I don’t know if I could have controlled myself as mad as I was back then.

“I felt disrespected; I feel trivialized. Out of all the work that I did. Like all of the sacrificing. And you people say oh, you got paid a lot of money. You know what, man, I didn’t get paid enough money to dummy down my pride and my respect as a man. Ain’t no price for that. And when that happened, I felt like okay, I’m expendable, I’m useless to them. They don’t respect me.

“That’s kind of feeling that it was. And you know, I got a lot of counsel after that about how I felt as a man because like, it was troubling. But being that I am a man and that I was able to say my piece to Vince and everybody involved, like, just know who I am, because that won’t ever happen again.

“If it does, like us talking will not be an option, and I quit. And you know what, man, I probably owe my wife more of an apology and thank you because she was the one that got me to come back to wrestling. And go and talk to them again because I didn’t have any interest in coming back, and then none of that, none of the things after would have happened if that was the case.”

When asked why Vince McMahon did the prank in the first place, Henry said simply because McMahon thought it was funny.

“Vince just thought it was funny,” Mark Henry said. “He said that he thought it was funny. And they wanted to get to the cars and get to the airport. And that was gonna give them time to get out of there without any traffic. Not thinking how’s Mark gonna feel after this?”