10 Wrestlers Who Had A Late Career Renaissance
10 wrestlers who enjoyed a late career renaissance
6. Mark Henry
After a successful powerlifting career and competing in the Olympics, the young Mark Henry made the jump over to pro wrestling when he signed with WWE in 1996. This was a 10-year deal, unheard of at the time, and, unfortunately, he needed all those years and then some to actually get good.
Wrestling didn’t come naturally to Henry, whose early matches could be described as “inconsistent” at best. After over a decade of gimmick changes - man in beret, sexual chocolate, friend of Tony Atlas - Henry finally struck gold in 2011, after he started inducting people into the Hall of Pain.
This new, relentless beast of a character clicked with audiences in a big way, and by the end of the year the World’s Strongest Man had reigned as World Heavyweight Champion, his first world title in a 15-year career (not counting the ECW Championship).
