WWE LEGEND 'UPSET' AFTER ROUTINE MOVE ALMOST TURNED CATASTROPHIC

WWE Hall of Famer Mark Henry was ‘very upset’ with then-rising star Wade Barrett after he nearly injured them both in an almost disastrous mistake.

The Preston-born star, who now serves as a commentator on Friday Night SmackDown after claiming the Intercontinental Championship five times during his in-ring career, admitted he was mortified after the unfortunate mishap shortly after debuting as the Nexus in 2010.

Speaking exclusively to Metro.co.uk via AceOdds, he recalled: ‘Mark Henry, 400 pounds, fantastic human being, great performer, locker room legend, a guy that a lot of people looked up to as a leader and I was the new guy coming in and I had to go and have a match with Mark Henry.

‘Now my old finisher was called The Wasteland and it was a fireman’s carry where I’d kind of flip them off onto their back afterwards. I was used to doing that against guys who were about at most 250, 260 pounds, something like that.

‘Mark Henry was way too big and I didn’t want to do it. But at the time management was insisting, “Here’s how you make a huge impact Wade, we need you to do this”. “I don’t want to do it guys”. “Too bad, you have to do it.”‘

Despite Barrett, Henry and the producer for the match all being against it, the Englishman was forced to hoist the Worlds Strongest Man up on his shoulders during the bout.

‘Very quickly after that conversation happened, I’d say within two or three weeks, the pandemic hit, the world got shut down, NWA shut down for the best part of 12 months,’ he explained.

‘By the time it all kind of fired up again, I’d been picked up by WWE. So very brief conversations, maybe at some point in the future, we’ll see how things turn out.’

He added: ‘I’m fit and healthy, if something came up where, ‘Okay, there’s a match here, would you be interested in doing it?’ If it makes sense to me and I was excited to do it, absolutely, I could.’

WWE SmackDown airs Friday nights at 1am on TNT Sports 1. Money In The Bank airs Saturday, July 6 at 1am on the WWE Network.

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