10 WWE Superstars and what happened when they first met Vince McMahon

#2 Mark Henry

Mark Henry was inducted into the 2018 Hall of Fame

After competing in the 1994 Olympics, Mark Henry revealed in an interview that he was a big WWE fan. Word quickly got back to Vince McMahon, who called “The World’s Strongest Man” himself to see if he was interested in joining the wrestling business.

From that moment, as Henry recalled to WWE.com, things went a little sour.

“I picked up the phone and he said, ‘I heard you like wrestling. This is Vince McMahon’. I hung up on him because I thought it was one of my wrestling buddies playing a joke on me. I got another call from Terry Todd [Henry’s manager] and he asked me, ‘Did you hang up on Vince McMahon?’ And I said, ‘That was Vince McMahon for real?’. Vince called me back and we got a laugh out of it.”