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Комментарии • 341

  • @Rocker3829
    @Rocker3829 2 года назад +94

    Mark had a 2,033lb powerlifting TOTAL in HIGH SCHOOL. easily one of the strongest people who have ever lived!

    • @user-dd1bb4tw4r
      @user-dd1bb4tw4r 2 года назад +16

      I think he still holds national high school weightlifting record. He still holds the drug tested world record Olympic weightlifting supertotals of 3324.5lbs. Only person to pass him by 40lbs has been on gear his entire adult life.

    • @threezysworld8089
      @threezysworld8089 6 месяцев назад

      I read an article in Muscle and Fitness 20+ years ago where Bill Kazmier said he believed Henry is the strongest man to ever live. He also said that if Henry focused on strongman he'd be the GOAT strongman.

  • @Krazyk007x2
    @Krazyk007x2 3 года назад +298

    I talked to Henry while leaving a WWE RAW event years & years ago. He actually came out in the street where people were leaving the event, just to interact with us. Signing autographs, joking around & just shooting the shit. Not one other worker did that. Everyone else was seen speeding away in their rental cars or limos. Not Mark. He really enjoyed the fans & was super cool & down to Earth.

    • @dramahawkpromotions9621
      @dramahawkpromotions9621 3 года назад +23

      That's Crazy u and I have the same type of story. I remember attending my first wrestling event Smackdown or Raw at the Garden. Bill Goldberg was the only wrestler who came to sign autographs take pics and talk with the fans. Everyone else were driving by and walking away fast.

    • @Krazyk007x2
      @Krazyk007x2 3 года назад +11

      @@dramahawkpromotions9621 That's awesome. I haven't heard many stories like that with Goldberg.

    • @dramahawkpromotions9621
      @dramahawkpromotions9621 3 года назад +6

      @@Krazyk007x2 Yea Everyone else were acting funnystyle the Dudleys Rosie, Teddy Long RVD. Goldberg was the only one to who showed us love.

    • @Haddley333
      @Haddley333 3 года назад +4

      maybe he wasn't scheduled for the next event? Most don't have time for that have to catch flight for next event if they want to rest before next show

    • @Krazyk007x2
      @Krazyk007x2 3 года назад +5

      @Alan ​ @John You guys make fair points. It just seemed kind of shitty how the other workers came off. They couldn't even wave or smile or anything as they went by. Half of them looked right through us, like we weren't even there & they were driving down an empty street. Granted, they'd already performed & that's what they get paid for - I just don't think a split second of acknowledgement for the people who pay your bills is too much to ask.

  • @tortillasarenotbiceps7622
    @tortillasarenotbiceps7622 3 года назад +94

    As a guy who's lifted weights for 45 years I can tell you Mark Henry is the real deal. He is legit one of the strongest men on the planet.

    • @JB-xh5mc
      @JB-xh5mc 2 года назад +4

      In human history.

    • @johnnytsunami4186
      @johnnytsunami4186 Год назад +2

      As a trans curious bisexual nonbinary LGBTQRSTD black woman, I agree with the OC.

    • @themajesticspaceduck6798
      @themajesticspaceduck6798 Год назад +9

      ​@@johnnytsunami4186 wtf does that have anything to do with this

    • @khamla616
      @khamla616 Год назад

      You can have zero years experience and say that statement

    • @lordoffaiyum9727
      @lordoffaiyum9727 Год назад +2

      @@johnnytsunami4186 your clearly a cauacazoid but you will be ok

  • @FerretJohn
    @FerretJohn Год назад +14

    Let this sink in, Mark set about a dozen World Powerlifting records, verified drug free, in 1995 that ARE STILL UNBROKEN TODAY!

  • @alexbrannon
    @alexbrannon 3 года назад +83

    Makes me respect Mark Henry even more because he cared more about not hurting people than getting over. He was easily in my top 3 favorites and it kills me they didn't push him more because he had great mic skills and his Hall of Pain gimmick is proof he could be a champion. He could have done it face or heel, if they wouldn't have him job out to others.

    • @alanrobinson7891
      @alanrobinson7891 3 года назад +7

      Just another case of vince killing talent

    • @ArcaneAzmadi
      @ArcaneAzmadi 3 года назад +7

      Henry was one of the most-wasted guys WWE ever signed. Back when they first signed him, they gave him a MASSIVE big money contract of over a million a year for 10 years, and when he didn't quite live up to their (perhaps somewhat excessive) expectations Vince regretted it and decided to book him into the ground to try and convince him to ask to be released from his contract, hence things like the "Sexual Chocolate" gimmick and the Mae Young romance. Well, for a million a year, Henry decided he could live with a bit of humiliation (apparently he actually quite enjoyed Sexual Chocolate), stuck out the original contract, resigned to a less-extravagent one, and eventually received the decent booking he should have been getting all along with the Hall of Pain gimmick.

    • @20money17
      @20money17 Год назад

      Or put him in one of the most hilarious backstage segments being Mae Young baby daddy to a damn glove 😂😂

  • @charlestinsman7256
    @charlestinsman7256 3 года назад +156

    Mark Henry is a legit strongman he won the Arnold Classic before

    • @brianmiller5750
      @brianmiller5750 3 года назад +25

      Men's Health marked him as the 2nd strongest man in history, and only because he never realized his full potential. He walked away from powerlifting without truly reaching his peak.

    • @theteddy1487
      @theteddy1487 3 года назад +3

      The very first one at that when everybody said he didn't have a chance in hell.

    • @theteddy1487
      @theteddy1487 3 года назад +9

      @@brianmiller5750 I wouldn't rank him that high. That's not me trying to downplay his strength, if he had never gone to the WWF/E and had dedicated himself to the pursuit of strength I think he had the genetics to quite possibly the strongest man ever. But he didn't go that route so we never got to see his full potential. I'd comfortably put Big Z, Shaw, Thor (and no I'm not a fanboy he deserves to be amongst the strongest in history for his dominance at Arnolds) and Hall above him.

    • @chrisl471
      @chrisl471 3 года назад +19

      @@theteddy1487 he was the strongest natural everyone else was on roids

    • @theteddy1487
      @theteddy1487 3 года назад

      @@chrisl471 so if he was natural how do you know everyone else was on gear?

  • @GMoneyXL1969
    @GMoneyXL1969 3 года назад +105

    The Hall of Pain menacing big man gimmick was successful for Mark Henry.

    • @nitrologly
      @nitrologly 3 года назад +14

      People think it was a gimmick but he quite possibly was the strongest man too. He was a genetic freak.

    • @nrood3821
      @nrood3821 3 года назад +8

      it was my favorite gimmick he had. he played that asshole role so well. and he was legit tough enough (pun intended) to be able to put everyone into the HALL OF PAIN!

    • @H.P.O.V
      @H.P.O.V 3 года назад +1

      Go Pack Go!

    • @GMoneyXL1969
      @GMoneyXL1969 3 года назад

      @@H.P.O.V
      Damn right 👍🏾

    • @notsoberoveranalyzer8264
      @notsoberoveranalyzer8264 2 года назад +2

      @@nitrologly Yeah, he is unbelievable. Seeing him dunk is insanely strange. That much weight, that size.
      How strong each part of his body was, from grip, arm, back strength. He’s literally one of those people who’d have legends told about them, like King K, ( from Hawaii), Leonids, Lu Bu etc.

  • @JackSatanson
    @JackSatanson 3 года назад +39

    The more you here about mark and the more you hear him talk- he is a mans man and the salt of the earth

  • @joshfuller5076
    @joshfuller5076 3 года назад +44

    Mark was a powerlifter, before being an Olympic style lifter. Tony is misremembering. Mark set records in the bench as a teen. That said, beast.

    • @JD_2597
      @JD_2597 3 года назад +5

      He probably just meant that at the time, he wasn't training bench press at all. Which he wouldn't have been because he just came off the back of competing at the Olympics in weightlifting

    • @darkphq
      @darkphq Год назад +4

      Also Mark playing on the phone? In 1995-96?

    • @davidpressley3451
      @davidpressley3451 Год назад +1

      ​@@darkphq They did have Nokia cell phones at the time.

    • @darkphq
      @darkphq Год назад

      @@davidpressley3451 have you seen those phones? What could he do on that phone while in the gym?

    • @davidpressley3451
      @davidpressley3451 Год назад

      @@darkphq Back in the early 90's I was young at the time so not worried about a gym but people had them.

  • @AbrasionUK
    @AbrasionUK 3 года назад +54

    "Never benched pressed a day in his life" The guy was a renowned powerlifter. Pretty sure he's bench pressed before!

    • @Liberty_Sword
      @Liberty_Sword 2 года назад +7

      Yeah, pretty sure he just meant that bench pressing wasn't something he did all the time in the gym but only practice for competitions, whereas the other lifts are Olympic lifts.

    • @thorgeist
      @thorgeist 2 года назад +1

      There is literal video evidence of Mark Benching lol. This kills me 😑

    • @datacipher
      @datacipher Год назад +2

      @@thorgeistcome on kids… you’re being too literal. Nobody who’s spent a million hours in the gym lifting hasn’t tried a Bench ever.. he just meant that wasn’t somethin he was seriously training in at that time.

  • @Horford73
    @Horford73 3 года назад +139

    Actually I disagree with Tony. As a.Heel character Mark Henry was very good on the Mic. The fake shoot promo against Jim Ross & Jerry Lawler was a classic. Mark's bulky body type would have been better if he wrestled in the 80's.

    • @preacherman9658
      @preacherman9658 3 года назад +3

      I think this interview was before the "Hall of Pain" run.

    • @ericr4677
      @ericr4677 3 года назад +7

      @@preacherman9658 Hall of Pain was Sooo under rated... I still pull it up to see it. Mark Henry best work

    • @HepCatJack
      @HepCatJack 3 года назад +1

      I though he did a decent job as a heel in his run against Matt Hardy in WWE's ECW.

    • @maxxxmodelz4061
      @maxxxmodelz4061 3 года назад +4

      I think Tony was right though. If Mark put on a mean, no nonsense "Ron Simmons" style personality, he would have been over bigtime. The big teddybear persona they gave him, and the silly schtick was enough to get him popular, but never really "over".

    • @popeye697
      @popeye697 3 года назад +1

      He was right because Mark was never an over the top character. He was deadly serious as a heel

  • @brownmut5518
    @brownmut5518 3 года назад +59

    I remember seeing Andre in his prime live in the early 80s. Andre with that huge mane of hair and standing tall on that ramp way at the old MLG was something ill never forget , he was a real giant.

    • @punkem733
      @punkem733 3 года назад +12

      Andre in his prime in the 80's?! LMAO, he was breaking down in the late 70's. You should have seen him in the mid to late 60's. He moved like a damn near gymnast.

    • @nikolas_schreck
      @nikolas_schreck 3 года назад +2

      My favorite as a kid in the 80's

    • @nikolas_schreck
      @nikolas_schreck 3 года назад

      @@punkem733 really dang

    • @ji5340
      @ji5340 3 года назад +2

      What Tony said about Mark not benching ever is not true. Mark competed as a powerlifter also while he competed in Olympic weightlifting throughout the early nineties.

    • @MrBilld75
      @MrBilld75 3 года назад +3

      @@punkem733 Yeah, that's pretty much how giantism works too. They are o.k. in their younger years and move like any younger person, but break down fast as they age and rarely live beyond their 50's. Heart just gives out, as did Andre's and he had massive knee problems before he died too. I noticed from those old pictures of him then, he was considerably smaller (although still big), than in his later years. My wife said she watched him as a kid in the 1960's in Quebec, when he was known just as Géant Ferré and he was her favourite and well liked and yeah, he could really move back then.

  • @scottpoulos7661
    @scottpoulos7661 3 года назад +14

    It doesn't matter how bad of a heel Mark Henry ever was, there's no way to look at his face and not want him to try to sell you a fresh-baked pie.

  • @alansmith4540
    @alansmith4540 3 года назад +13

    Love that he could've ruled the world in wrestling with his strangth and talent but was worried about hurting an opponent! Class act all the way!

  • @23aceballer
    @23aceballer 3 года назад +11

    Imagine Mark Henry coming at you on the offensive line 😳

  • @danmarteen8946
    @danmarteen8946 3 года назад +5

    I saw mark Henry in the Austin airport once on the escalator he was coming up I was going down and I yelled “sexual chocolate what’s up?!” Didn’t go over well...

  • @Boss3Nate
    @Boss3Nate 3 года назад +4

    You can tell Tony is telling the truth about drop kicking Andre the Giant....he's still genuinely amazed to this day when he tells the story.. hahahaha

  • @Chronoic
    @Chronoic Год назад +2

    Mark finally got over when he became heel and started the hall of pain, they should of booked him like that from the start.

  • @JA_WILL
    @JA_WILL 3 года назад +27

    Good segment -- Tony is staying on point and did a great job here.

    • @JA_WILL
      @JA_WILL 3 года назад +2

      @@robertr.9419 -- I suspect if that were the case then it would be in main-stream news. They would love something like that.

    • @Skate1968B
      @Skate1968B 3 года назад

      I agree JA WILL. i really do enjoy Tony's interviews. I find it really interesting to hear him talk about the scene in the early 80s and prior. I enjoy him talking about stuff that we fans wouldn't know about.

  • @Colstonewall
    @Colstonewall 3 года назад +4

    Tony is a nice guy too. I could never see him as a heel because it just wouldn't be believable. You can see the humbleness and niceness in him. I'm so happy he's doing well now as I'd heard he was homeless for a while.

  • @rockygreenwood1500
    @rockygreenwood1500 3 года назад +10

    By the time Tony Atlas met Mark Henry he was already the 3 time Texas Powerlifting champ, had qualified for the Olympics and held the National powerlifting record for raw total. . . . . . I think it's unlikely that Tony taught Mark Henry ANYTHING, let alone how to bench press hahaha. Poor old man is losing it as he gets older.

  • @Phillygoat1983
    @Phillygoat1983 3 года назад +36

    If Mark wanted too he could've been a great DT in the NFL

    • @markmcc78
      @markmcc78 3 года назад +5

      Wow, i never thought of that before! Holy shit, coulda been better than Warren Sapp, i reckon. See him palm that basketball?!

    • @herbs275
      @herbs275 3 года назад +3

      @@markmcc78 would he have done the Reggie White Arm move better than RW?

    • @Jman757605
      @Jman757605 3 года назад +3

      It takes a helluva lot more than strength to be an NFL d-lineman. Brock Lesnar couldn’t even make the Vikings practice squad and he was an all-American in REAL wrestling.

    • @elijahechicagobearsboyd5734
      @elijahechicagobearsboyd5734 3 года назад

      @@Jman757605 Mark has literally moved a bus before though...

    • @johndoughnut9350
      @johndoughnut9350 3 года назад

      Vince Wilfork 2.0

  • @justinhurtado338
    @justinhurtado338 Год назад +2

    People forget, Mark Henry is legitimately one of if not arguably the strongest person to ever live

  • @beatonthedonis
    @beatonthedonis 3 года назад +3

    Mark Henry was 3-time Texas State Champion in bench press (and other powerlifting categories) before switching to Olympic lifting at the age of 19.

  • @notsoberoveranalyzer8264
    @notsoberoveranalyzer8264 2 года назад +2

    People seem to misunderstand. He’s not saying Henry wasn’t successful/good, but that he deserved/should’ve been even more so, and likely could’ve as a face.
    Can’t turn back time, so hard to say. I just know the man was so charismatic, nice that when he’d show up at places to dunk ( which with his body was maddening to see) lift couple hundred pounds with one arm, he really got those who didn’t even know him by name into the show, and was so likable.

  • @jgibson6041
    @jgibson6041 3 года назад +8

    🦅Mr. USA 🇺🇸 Tony is da Man! Still like watching MSG matches from back in the day, 😎🐶🐕 Reading articles and seeing pictures about him in all the cool wrestling magazines! Thanks for shows from Southeast Virginia!👍👍

  • @tonyjones-clark4960
    @tonyjones-clark4960 3 года назад +7

    I love Tony Atlas's stories.

    • @JorgeRojas-ut3wj
      @JorgeRojas-ut3wj 3 года назад +1

      Same. For a guy who says he can't read he's extremely articulate.

    • @tonyjones-clark4960
      @tonyjones-clark4960 3 года назад +1

      @@JorgeRojas-ut3wj Yep, that's true.

  • @omgbreezy4707
    @omgbreezy4707 3 года назад +30

    “What they want to see is a mean nasty big bl..”Tony Atlas

    • @aholmes74ah
      @aholmes74ah 3 года назад +4

      I caught that too.

    • @mrgallagher7072
      @mrgallagher7072 3 года назад +5

      😂. yep

    • @noamto
      @noamto 3 года назад +4

      "Like a Run Summon"

    • @MJ-qb6kt
      @MJ-qb6kt 5 месяцев назад

      😂😂😂…ya’ll terrible!

  • @GeorgeD1965
    @GeorgeD1965 3 года назад +5

    I remember watching Tony and Andre in the late 70's

  • @stoneman472
    @stoneman472 3 года назад +3

    I love hearing about all the giants in wrestling who could snap people in half but are the nicest guys you'd ever wanna meet.

    • @alanrobinson7891
      @alanrobinson7891 3 года назад +2

      That's because they are the guys that don't have to prove themselves

  • @johnmills6153
    @johnmills6153 Год назад +1

    Mark did find that mean streak with hall of pain run

  • @Thejoeordinary1
    @Thejoeordinary1 3 года назад +10

    Got to love Tony! Been watching him since I was a kid. An all time great!

  • @scottsayer6012
    @scottsayer6012 8 месяцев назад +2

    Love these Andre stories

  • @memeshort5515
    @memeshort5515 3 года назад +7

    He got over, took him 20 years but he got over

  • @tortugadave8765
    @tortugadave8765 3 года назад +2

    Had to raise the volume up to hear Tony talk, then 6:35 happened and LORDY I jumped.

  • @bruceleroy8063
    @bruceleroy8063 3 года назад +3

    Drop kicking Andre was like drop kicking... someone twice your mass lol

  • @user-ys1cr3vj9e
    @user-ys1cr3vj9e 3 года назад +2

    Your Awesome Tony!

  • @lazur1
    @lazur1 3 года назад +30

    Mark Henry'd never bench pressed before? Nonsense: He was a champ power-lifter/bench-presser every year of high school, National High School Champ his senior year: Strongest High School Student in America. He didn't do Olympic lifting til after high school.

    • @dj_gflow
      @dj_gflow 3 года назад +10

      That was an exaggeration. I'm sure mark had benched b4. He probably ment it had been a while since he benched bc as an Olympic lifter, bench press isn't an important experience for what you'll be doing

    • @lazur1
      @lazur1 3 года назад +4

      @@dj_gflow It wasn't an exaggeration, it was dead-wrong. Henry has been benching regularly, from his early teens, to this very day, and definitely a few times every week of his wrestling career. His O-lifting was a blip in his career. Tony? We're talking about a guy who was friends with Henry, and was also a very strong weight-trained man.They worked out together. For him to somehow not know about Mark's benching experience is impossible. There's no advantage to Tony lying, so what's up? Perhaps Tony has a form of dementia.

    • @JD_2597
      @JD_2597 3 года назад +3

      @@lazur1 he will have given up benching to help his weightlifting. It doesn't help with upper body flexibility at all. So in a sense he was correct, he probably hadn't benched in quite a while. But he definitely had a lot of pedigree of course, maybe he just worded it wrong.

    • @lazur1
      @lazur1 3 года назад +1

      @@JD_2597Yeah, Tony "worded it" REALLY "wrong" Mark was powerlifting/benching before, during, & after his O-lifting career,

    • @JD_2597
      @JD_2597 3 года назад

      @@lazur1 he won't have been benching during his time weightlifting.

  • @jimmyfarrow6486
    @jimmyfarrow6486 3 года назад +3

    I hear Tony Atlas. Put Ron Simmons in Mark Henry's body-- LAWD have mercy...

  • @dtogo4286
    @dtogo4286 3 года назад +14

    Mark Henry could dunk a bball?!

    • @DastardlyDer
      @DastardlyDer 3 года назад +9

      He was in a couple Foot Locker Dunk contests.

    • @dtogo4286
      @dtogo4286 3 года назад +5

      @@DastardlyDer incredible

    • @Lala-uz5nt
      @Lala-uz5nt 3 года назад +7

      Yes it's on RUclips

    • @tkong35
      @tkong35 3 года назад +4

      Holyshit thats like a 🚛 jumpin in the air!!!

    • @donovanredmond8050
      @donovanredmond8050 3 года назад

      @@tkong35
      Lol. That freaking kill me!!!

  • @HashBandicoot356
    @HashBandicoot356 3 года назад +4

    "LOOKS LIKE YOU GOT TWO BROKEN ARMMMMMSSSSS!"

  • @npcwill283
    @npcwill283 3 года назад +6

    Mark Henry is an astounding example of a great man that simple case closed ! Unless he has some metoo skeletons or something we do not know about his character is superb !

  • @kendariusbentley231
    @kendariusbentley231 3 года назад +4

    Hall of pain mark Henry was my favorite one 💪🏾

    • @TheNightOwl11683
      @TheNightOwl11683 3 года назад

      I think that was what they wanted from the start with Henry. If he had that Hall Of Pain run earlier in his career, he would have been over massively.

  • @freedomworks3976
    @freedomworks3976 3 года назад +3

    Andre and Mark Henry would make the best bodyguards

    • @abhinavkumar547
      @abhinavkumar547 2 года назад

      Who do u think was stronger between the two?

    • @freedomworks3976
      @freedomworks3976 2 года назад

      @@abhinavkumar547 Mark Henry. He trained in powerlifting.

  • @MrBilld75
    @MrBilld75 3 года назад +1

    Undertaker said much the same things about Henry. The man moved a bus, lol. Only a few inches at a time, but he moved a bus enough to get it and them back on the road. He really is that strong. Andre flipping cars sure. He did it to a bunch of guys who were messing with him in a bar one night. They thought they could take him but when he took the bait, they ran and hid in a car and locked the doors. Andre, just flipped the car, and laughed as he calmly walked away, while 4 grown men trembled in shock inside. The legendary stories of Andre really are that amazing.
    Drink a magnum and a case of beer, and just have a buzz on, absolutely, he could drink anyone under the table. In his huge hands beer cans looked small and were only a few sips for him, lol. They say, you could never appreciate his size, till you had his hand covering your entire head, or saw his Banana size fingers coming at you to do so. I know a person whose family knew him (and had pics to prove it) and he'd go there for dinner sometimes. The table was full of food, of which, Andre ate at least 50% if not more. His appetite was as legendary as his drinking.

  • @wesleygainey2611
    @wesleygainey2611 3 года назад +1

    Mark Henry has the record for the combo Olympic & Powerlift totals. Won the first Arnold classic strongman he entered. He's probably strength sports biggest 'what if?' As he retired really before he even got started.

  • @williammercer7122
    @williammercer7122 3 года назад +2

    Mark Henry is from Silsbee Texas he was a three time state champion in powerlifting then went on to the
    Olympic powerlifting team and won the Arnold classic. I believe Tony is confused because I know how to bench . I saw him bench 550 in high school I was so glad I was in his weight class.

    • @55cleon
      @55cleon 7 месяцев назад

      I'm From East Texas Myself. My Head Coach (Mike Howell) Left Silsbee And Coached Us In '91.

  • @mikenordrum3454
    @mikenordrum3454 3 года назад +1

    MR TONY ATLAS WHAT A CLASS ACT

  • @CAVERUNLAKE
    @CAVERUNLAKE 3 года назад +8

    Tony has talked like he has a piece of hard candy in his mouth for 30 years, I always wondered if he did

  • @MarioMartinez-ii9jz
    @MarioMartinez-ii9jz 3 года назад +3

    Back in The Day...there was No One As Buff!!!

  • @herbs275
    @herbs275 3 года назад +1

    2:20 ... Thee best laugh i've had in sometime. I like listening to Tony talk a story. TURN VOLUME DOWN AT 6:25

  • @CJCrump
    @CJCrump Год назад +1

    Mark Henry is humble.

  • @TrumpDesantis-zm3kg
    @TrumpDesantis-zm3kg 3 года назад +1

    Atlas talks of Andre like he's King Kong

  • @elcid8889
    @elcid8889 2 года назад +1

    Everybody has seen Andre turn over a car full of people. 😲

  • @MRTLEW01
    @MRTLEW01 3 года назад +22

    Yea Mark Henry also broke all kind of Power lifting and Bench Pressing records in Highschool so he cant say he never bench press he did all sorts of things at Silsbee Highschool in Tx i know i watched him and he is a Nice guy its just in Him. " Big Mark" is the type of guy if your on a flat he will hold your car up so you want have to pull your jack out. Lol

    • @bradthomas7431
      @bradthomas7431 3 года назад +2

      Yea from Silsbee Tx aka Smoketown Tx

    • @datacipher
      @datacipher Год назад

      Do you kids take everything literally? If he never benched at all, how did he even know 405 was a good starting weight for him. He’s making a figurative point kids…

  • @shikat2371
    @shikat2371 3 года назад +8

    Bobby Heenan, Andre the Giant's manager, once said that the only guys Andre won't mess with were Haku and Harley Race.

    • @kingartison
      @kingartison 3 года назад +1

      So many of the same stories out about haku

  • @CarnalKid
    @CarnalKid 3 года назад +6

    Mark competed in powerlifting many times prior to switching to weightlifting (and was really a better PL/strongman than a Weightlifter). That was by no means his first time bench pressing-he'd even done it in competition before.

  • @michaeltaylor8835
    @michaeltaylor8835 3 года назад +8

    Huge respect for Mark

  • @ta3_unknownn3250
    @ta3_unknownn3250 3 года назад +2

    Mark Henry vs Andre The Giant would've been the greatest big man battle of all time. Hulk Hogan did a bodyslam, but imagine Mark lifting Andre for the World's Strongest slam sheesh

    • @abhinavkumar547
      @abhinavkumar547 2 года назад

      Who do u think was stronger in his prime? Mark Henry or Andre the giant?

    • @datacipher
      @datacipher Год назад

      @@abhinavkumar547mark would have been stronger in every way in a gym - though the great ken Patera (also had a claim to worlds strongest man) said in sports illustrated that he had no doubt that if Andre took a year to train as a powerlifter and took steroids that the World records in deadlift and squat would fall. He said he had seen Andre pick up 250lb men like normal people pick up a coat. But even though Henry could put lift Andre by a huge margin, Andre was still powerful and much bigger than henry. Sheer mass and size mean something too. Even mark Henry couldn’t manhandle Andre.

    • @abhinavkumar547
      @abhinavkumar547 Год назад

      @@datacipher Right. Ken patera told in his interview with Dr. Terry Todd in si that Andre had the potential to break the world record in squat and dl. I really wish that Andre should had done workout. The problem with many pro wrestling fans is that they don't know much about real world lifting and think that Andre was stronger than Henry in his prime. He had the potential to become stronger but then again by that logic Henry also didn't reach his strength peak as he quit lifting by the age of 26 to focus on pro wrestling. Mark had the potential to be the strongest man that ever lived had he continued lifting in his prime.

  • @mprice6683
    @mprice6683 3 года назад +8

    Tony talked about the strength of Andre. What does that say about Haku (Meng) that Andre was afraid of him. Also, listen to the stories Arnold says about Andre and Wilt Chamberlain on the set of Conan the Barbarian. Wilt was almost as strong a Andre and Andre cold flip cars. People talk about the strength of Shaq but if Wilt played in his era, Wilt would have just picked Shaq up and move him like a paper bag.

    • @mikewatkins3533
      @mikewatkins3533 3 года назад +2

      I agree. Wilt was superhuman strong😎🎸

  • @michaelhawkins1174
    @michaelhawkins1174 Год назад

    Have always loved mark

  • @backcrackingvideosamigo765
    @backcrackingvideosamigo765 3 года назад +7

    6:29 = heart attack time.

  • @donjuan2621
    @donjuan2621 3 года назад +1

    Mark Henry seems to be a wonderful human being

  • @kingofqueens777
    @kingofqueens777 3 года назад +1

    Hulk Hogan and superstar Billy Graham had big arms and Scott Steiner.Tony you had one of the nicest physiques in wrestling. Mark Henry is one of the nicest guys out there and he’s very strong and he’s a real Olympic wrestler

  • @scottsayer6012
    @scottsayer6012 8 месяцев назад +1

    Andre, the giant is in a class or league of his own.

  • @Tron76
    @Tron76 Год назад

    We had the 1000 pound club at my high school. Never made it. 2000 + is insane

    • @threezysworld8089
      @threezysworld8089 6 месяцев назад

      Definitely because you know he's having to DL somewhere in the neighborhood of 1000 lbs 👀

  • @palabrajot505
    @palabrajot505 3 года назад +4

    I've always heard conflicting stories about Andre, some people talking about what a sweet gentle giant he was who built huge walls around his home so deer could be safe from hunters.... In contrast, others talking about how he liked to take liberties with other wrestlers' bodies. I even heard a story about Kamala bringing a gun to the ring, in case Andre was overly stiff in a match.

    • @chrischar9428
      @chrischar9428 2 года назад

      Yeah gun in loincloth

    • @datacipher
      @datacipher Год назад

      I’m 50.. knew wrestlers…‘never met or saw Andre in person. I’m sure the both sides were true. Like all people in real life, it’s not black and white… given all the countless first hand accounts, Andre was likely a generally jovial and good hearted person, who would also get cranky, was in a lot of pain later in life, was recognized and harassed all the time, dealt with a world not his size, and… like many of us… just had people that rubbed him the wrong way that he’d then bully.

  • @ratgodmetalsupertvshow9718
    @ratgodmetalsupertvshow9718 3 года назад +2

    Amazing upload but jeez that outro music just hit so obnoxiously louder than the interview

  • @toomuchmarquanes24
    @toomuchmarquanes24 3 года назад +5

    Thats one person I could never ever train with. The day I lift with someone and 400 pounds is a warm up. Smh I'm out 🤣😂🤣 and I'm not a small guy I'm 6"4 265 pounds 😂😂😂 Big E can go hard to with benching

  • @TheBigChad
    @TheBigChad 3 года назад +3

    I followed mark way before wwe and to say he didn’t bench is stupid. They tally your bench, squat, and deadlift at meets. He would always destroy us man, I was part of the LSU weightlifting team in the day and he was just an absolute beast

    • @datacipher
      @datacipher Год назад

      Take everything literally do you?

  • @Frankiarmz
    @Frankiarmz 2 года назад

    Great interview !

  • @rhigh100
    @rhigh100 3 года назад

    I saw Tony Atlas in Wadesboro NC. Junk Yard Dogs hometown. He was supposed to wrestle a local guy named Dean Ragland. Dean was a big deal around here. They got into the ring and Tony pointed at Dean and told him. Boy i'm gonna kick your ass. And Dean said. Hell no you ain't i quit.

  • @johnny5805
    @johnny5805 3 года назад +13

    PLEASE sort that super loud logo out !!!!!! Or raise the volume of your interview to match it ! I'm scared to watch any more of your videos !!

  • @CatsClaw44
    @CatsClaw44 3 года назад +4

    This interviewer is brutal

  • @tonymctony4551
    @tonymctony4551 3 года назад +4

    How much you gotta eat to stay physically massive like Henry?

    • @kchop4tehwpn
      @kchop4tehwpn 3 года назад

      8-10k calories a day. Look at all the great strong men, and almost none of them had Henry's build at his age. Him at 20 looked like he does now, all the stongmen at 20 looked like shells just starting to amp up. Eddie hall was a great swimmer and thor and shaw were basketball players so that kinda tracks, but Mark Henry if you believe he was never on the juice and he stayed in strongman and got on the juice, you could think he'd be quite possibly the strongest man ever to walk the earth.
      **as it stands Big Z holds that regard.

  • @kathysingh1510
    @kathysingh1510 Год назад

    Love Tony’s stories. ❤❤❤❤

  • @albino5995
    @albino5995 3 года назад +4

    Interviewer: ‘Tony....how much cocaine did you take before this interview?’
    Tony Atlas: ‘Yes’

  • @bigal724
    @bigal724 3 года назад +2

    Tony looks like DMX

  • @kaneparker6594
    @kaneparker6594 3 года назад +1

    OOH YEAH MY PARENTS KANE KEKE AND OUR FAMILIES AND FRIENDS REMEMBER HIM AND HE CAME TO OUR FAMILIES THANKSGIVING BACK IN DAYS

  • @jakehanson216
    @jakehanson216 3 года назад +24

    He was a powerlifter before he was an olympic lifter. You gotta take what these old guys say with a grain of salt

    • @CatsClaw44
      @CatsClaw44 3 года назад +6

      His point was, Mark Henry had developed into an Olympic Lifter because it was his bread and butter for years

    • @jonalgoulbourne
      @jonalgoulbourne 3 года назад +5

      Right and playing on his phone back in what 95?? 😂

    • @JGD185
      @JGD185 3 года назад +1

      @@jonalgoulbourne that's right Mark was also a time traveler lol

    • @Righteousone18
      @Righteousone18 Год назад

      @@jonalgoulbourne it’s possible. Mobile phones were out in the 90’s. Of course people in the entertainment industry would have them first

    • @datacipher
      @datacipher Год назад

      Do you kids take everything literally? If he never benched at all, how did he even know 405 was a good starting weight for him. He’s making a figurative point kids…

  • @lockedinnn
    @lockedinnn 3 года назад +4

    Did Atlas miss the Hall of Pain era???

  • @llong3316
    @llong3316 3 года назад

    Mark Henry was a freak of nature

  • @exclamationpointman3852
    @exclamationpointman3852 3 года назад

    AWWW I WANTED TO HEAR THE REST!!!

  • @molly0000000s
    @molly0000000s 3 года назад

    Who’s on the poster on the far left with demon on it? Looks like a 80s horror film VHS.

  • @larrythomas6543
    @larrythomas6543 3 года назад

    Tony spends 3 min putting The GIANT OVER!!!! Classy guy

  • @jamescowan3651
    @jamescowan3651 3 года назад +8

    Never benched? He was a powerlifter in silsbee texas. JS

    • @Clubber-Slang
      @Clubber-Slang 3 года назад +2

      Did you listen to Tony explain their workouts?

    • @asthecrowflies1201
      @asthecrowflies1201 2 года назад

      @@Clubber-Slang why do you think that would mean anything? He said he had never benched before and that was simply untrue.

    • @datacipher
      @datacipher Год назад

      @@asthecrowflies1201 Do you kids take everything literally? If he never benched at all, how did he even know 405 was a good starting weight for him. He’s making a figurative point kids…

    • @datacipher
      @datacipher Год назад

      @@Clubber-Slangnope… they have no listening comprehension.

  • @palabrajot505
    @palabrajot505 3 года назад +11

    "Never bench pressed a day in his life"? Mark Henry competed in powerlifting from high school, until about six months before deciding he he wanted to try out for the Olympics.

    • @nathan_the_barbarian7974
      @nathan_the_barbarian7974 3 года назад +5

      Caught that too. He was a well accomplished powerlifter before training in the Olympic style. Either Mark was just messing with him or the years of wrestling is catching up to Tony’s head.

    • @palabrajot505
      @palabrajot505 3 года назад +3

      @@nathan_the_barbarian7974
      Rocky Johnson knew Tony better than just about anyone, and he did a couple of shoot interviews during his final years, where he was quite blunt about Tony Atlas being a complete moron.

    • @robbrooks3418
      @robbrooks3418 3 года назад

      @@nathan_the_barbarian7974 bench press is not part of Olympic lifting so he could be right

    • @robbrooks3418
      @robbrooks3418 3 года назад

      @@palabrajot505 yup you’re both way off after watching the interview atlas knows exactly what he’s talking about. Bench presses are more of a body building thing. Powerlifting and Olympic lifting has zero bench pressing....

    • @nathan_the_barbarian7974
      @nathan_the_barbarian7974 3 года назад

      @@robbrooks3418 alright then

  • @focussparring.
    @focussparring. 3 года назад

    Mr USA Tony Atlas #1 Baby.

  • @edgarhendricks366
    @edgarhendricks366 Год назад

    Just wondering how big or small were babas arms..he and pak song both had smallish arms and sunken chests .but did rely a lot on chops and judo

  • @MarkJones-fn7kf
    @MarkJones-fn7kf 3 года назад

    jyd was HUGE holy shit

  • @julesjacobs8931
    @julesjacobs8931 3 года назад +1

    This is a great segment

  • @iClone316
    @iClone316 3 года назад

    God damn the audio....warning at the end of the video.

  • @jc6087
    @jc6087 2 года назад

    Mark Henry slam dunking at 400lbs.

  • @johnnyfryar
    @johnnyfryar 3 года назад

    Atlas got tricked or his confused about thinking he taught Mark Henry how to PL. Mark was a world champion PLer, he was know for being a dive squatter. He would just drop down and come right back up just as fast. It was his quick squat style that got him recruited into OL. Mark could have been considered the greatest PLer of all time if he stayed into it, but he left it for Olympic Lifting. He was very average as an International OLer.

  • @tevintyler7684
    @tevintyler7684 3 года назад

    Someone gives this man some Vick's rub and some Campbell Chicken Noodles Soup. Nose all stuffed up.

  • @ezzz42
    @ezzz42 3 года назад

    He's a nice guy!

  • @michaeltaylor8835
    @michaeltaylor8835 3 года назад +1

    Interview cut

  • @Supervillain725
    @Supervillain725 3 года назад +10

    What does he mean Mark Henry wasn't "over?" Maybe earlier in his career, but when he turned full monster heel, he was over like nobody's business.

    • @ParadiseDB7
      @ParadiseDB7 3 года назад +6

      "His biggest problem WAS getting over" ... listening is a virtue 👀 How long was he in WWE before he got over? Many, many, MANY years. So Tony's comment is valid.

    • @Supervillain725
      @Supervillain725 3 года назад +2

      @@ParadiseDB7 "listening is a virtue..." So is NOT being an ass.

    • @ParadiseDB7
      @ParadiseDB7 3 года назад +2

      @@Supervillain725 yes exactly, so stop being a massive asshole and reply to my comment like a normal adult...

    • @Supervillain725
      @Supervillain725 3 года назад

      @@ParadiseDB7 don't say stupid stuff and I won't come after you.

    • @ParadiseDB7
      @ParadiseDB7 3 года назад +2

      @@Supervillain725 boy, sit down

  • @IsoscelesKramer1
    @IsoscelesKramer1 3 года назад

    who the hell is in charge of the lighting???? holy shit

  • @pedinoway2
    @pedinoway2 2 года назад

    beware of the ending of the video. its loud at f