David Draiman
WWE Hall of Famer and AEW Star Mark Henry appeared on Chris Van Vliet’s Insight, where he discussed a variety of topics such as how he threatened to quit WWE after he felt disrespected and trivialized by the prank WWE Chairman Vince McMahon pulled on him in 2011 when Vince sent him to the ring at the end of a show to wrestle Sin Cara, but just left him hanging and never came to the ring.
Mark Henry said:
”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.’”
”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.’”
”He [Vince McMahon] 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?’”
You can check out Mark Henry’s full comments at this link. H/T to Sportskeeda for transcribing the above quotes.
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