WWE Hall Of Famer Mark Henry recently appeared as special guest on Renee Paquette’s Oral Sessions Podcast and discussed about several topics. While speaking, Mark Henry stated that he was on Legends deal but he wanted to be employee off WWE and wanted to do different roles in WWE.
“I’ve been wrestling for 25 years and I had the best people the whole time. I didn’t come up on the indie scene, which is no disrespect to the indie scene, because I scout and watch the indie scene more than I do mainstream wrestling. And we (he and Vince McMahon) had the conversation and he said, ‘Well, write it up. What do you want to do?’ And I was like, ‘I want to do educational programming, I want to do community involvement, I want to be on the writing staff, I want to be an agent.’ He was like, ‘Whoa, that’s like five jobs.’ I said, ‘I’ve been doing all this already for free.’ Nobody paid me. I did it, at least (for) the last 12 years. I had to brag on myself for the first time in my career and I never did that before,” said the WWE Hall of Famer.
Mark Henry also stated that John Laurinaitis called him to discuss about the roles he wanted to do in WWE but Mark Henry made up his mind about leaving WWE.
Mark Henry also revealed that he spoke to Vince McMahon about leaving WWE and hoped that there would be no negative feeling between them. Then, Vince McMahon assured that there wouldn’t be any.
“I told Vince, I was like, ‘Man, I hope you don’t have any ill will or negative feeling. He said, ‘Mark, I know you’re gonna be great at whatever you do. You approach things from a point of not wanting to fail, as opposed to wanting to have success, and those people always do good. I just can’t do it right now.” (H/T: Sportskeeda)
“I am not here to fix AEW. AEW is not broken. What I’m here to do is turn the screws as we say on @bustedopenradio.” – @themarkhenry pic.twitter.com/G092qeFmyI
— All Elite Wrestling on TNT (@AEWonTNT) June 5, 2021
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