WWE's Mark Henry on what it takes to be a pro wrestler: "You have to be a little bit crazy"

From the peak of WWE, AEW, NJPW, and CMLL, down to the local indies, being a pro wrestler takes a ton of dedication and love for the game. According to WWE Hall of Famer Mark Henry, though, it also helps when you're a few crayons short of a full box.

The World's Strongest Man has been in the ring with some of the absolute greats. Henry's competed against Kurt Angle, The Undertaker, John Cena, Randy Orton, and more in his two-decade-plus career, and has had to trust them all to slam him hard, but protect him on the way down.

Speaking with fellow WWE Hall of Famers The Undertaker and Michelle McCool on the Six Feet Under podcast, Henry stated that you have to be trusting. But more than that, you have to be a little crazy to be a professional wrestler.

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"You have to be a little bit crazy to be in wrestling. Pro wrestling is the most unnatural thing to train in any other sport. Because it's not just sport, it's also a facade. To fall backwards and land flat on your back is one of the most unnatural things you can do. The fall face forward on the ground is unnatural. Allowing somebody to turn you upside down?" -Mark Henry on the Six Feet Under Podcast [45:49-46:38]

McCool asked how it felt for Henry to be picked up for The Deadman's Tombstone, and he said it's terrifying, as your life is no longer in your hands.

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Mark Henry's not shy about his size, and being a bigger man meant he had to put that much more trust into his partners in the ring. That was tough to do, even for some of the strongest men in the business at the time.

"All do respect to Taker and everybody else that ever gave piledrivers. It's... you feel out of control, and my whole life has been about being in control. So for me to get put in the Tombstone, and for me to take Goldberg's finish, and for me to let Kurt Angle give me the Angle Slam, all of those things where your head is pointing down? It was hard for me." [46:45-47:26]

McCool, taking a light jab at her husband, asked if Henry would rather take the Deadman dive from The Undertaker than a Tombstone. The former WWE World Champion didn't hesitate. "Any day. Any day." The Deadman even chalked Tombstoning Henry as one of his greatest feats of strength in the short above on the WWE Vault YouTube channel.

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Edited by Greg Bush