Overrated wrestler of the week

Mark Henry

Mark Henry is one of those guys who you can just look at and shrug. He's one of those guys who you might look at and wonder who he knows or what he has done to have been in the WWE for so many years. The worst part is, it's quite difficult to criticize him because he really does seem like a nice guy, but I must look at him and his ability for what it is, and that is, not of a particularly high standard. He is another wrestler who has gone quite far on the gimmick given to him. At first he was just a part of a stable. He was also involved in a very odd and disturbing story line involving Mae Young. Later on they started pushing his strongest man gimmick and have never left it alone since. 

The problem is that being the world's strongest man does not mean you deserve some major push in the wrestling business. Anyway, he never officially was the strongest man in the world [he has a few records in lifting weights but no official world strongest man titles to his name] and even if he had been, you don't get to be the world's strongest man forever as the official world's strongest man takes place on a yearly basis. The amount of TV time and big story lines or matches that he had was enough to raise eyebrows, but to be a former World and ECW Champion goes to far. Why don't they just hire a Hollywood actor and give him the title for winning an Oscar? No they of course they would not do that because one thing has nothing to do with the other. 

A champion needs to have wrestling ability or charisma. Obviously if he has both that is even better. Mark Henry has neither and what's worse, he doesn't look menacing either, he's just fat. It feels like they keep trying to make him meaningful, that's why he is on and off television constantly as they look to bring him back in some fresh way [but yet always as the world's strongest man]. Let's face it, if he did not have this gimmick based on a reality that is heavily skewed by the WWE, there would not be reason for him to be pushed. 

I would probably not have put Mark Henry in the overrated wrestler's section if he was not given a World title but that was the decisive 'bad move' that gets him hear.