Mark Henry Finally Wins the World Title

At WWE Night of Champions Pay-Per-View last night, against all odds Mark Henry cleanly pinned Randy Orton to win the World Heavyweight Championship. Shocking I know, as even the greatest gamblers weren't crazy enough to put money on Mark Henry beating Orton for the title. Mark Henry has spent the 15 years in the WWE, and the vast majority of his career he's always been either a jobber or just very mid-card wrestler. At his best, he's only shown mere flashes of dominance... a tease if you will. They would build him up on Smackdown just to feed him to the Undertaker or Batista since Smackdown routinely suffers from a lack of main event heels, but Henry stuck with it. He's been fed to nearly every main eventer that's come down the pike from Cena to Triple H to Orton to Edge and many more.

So, given Mark Henry's history of mid-card purgatory I was one who had just chalked Night of Champions up as a Randy Orton win and didn't even give it a second thought. Mark Henry, I apologize for discounting you. I am proud to say Mark Henry won the World Title. After 15 years, maybe people will finally start taking Mark Henry seriously. Kudos to WWE for finally doing something new and different. It might actually give me a reason to tune into Smackdown this week. The Hall of Pain begins. Congratulations to Mark Henry for finally pulling the sword from the stone.

Mark Henry Has Been Dominating... Who Cares?

Over the last month or so, Mark Henry has been on a path of destruction in the WWE... decimating Kane, the Big Show, and terrorizing WWE Officials. He smashed the Big Show through the side of a steel cage, but man who the heck cares? We all know that it's nothing but a fluke. We all know Mark Henry will never be WWE Champion. He is to this generation what Bam Bam Bigelow was to the '90s and King Kong Bundy was to the '80s... just a big menacing guy that's only there to look threatening but never actually amount to anything. This isn't the first time Mark Henry has been pushed. They pushed him back in 2006 when he was feuding with Undertaker and Batista. WWE only pushes Mark Henry when there is a lack of main event heels on Smackdown. He's just put in every once in awhile basically for filler.. to make it look like there are more main event heels then there really are. Whenever they get another main event heel or two, he'll be back to being VERY mid-card. Does the WWE really think we forgot that Mark Henry spent a decade being a big jobber before he was ever pushed? If you really think we believe Mark Henry as a dominant wrestler... yeah right. Pretty soon he'll be back to losing to dudes like Evan Bourne, with the occasional "King Kong vs Godzilla" confrontation with Kane or Big Show during a battle royal.