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“#Mark Henry wants to bring commentary ‘you don\u2019t get’<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Mark Henry is ready for his next challenge. The WWE Hall of Famer, now working for All Elite Wrestling as an analyst and coach, will get his first crack as a commentator when \u201cAEW Rampage\u201d debuts on Friday (10 p.m., TNT). He will be joined in the booth by Excalibur, Taz and Chris Jericho for the show that will feature a women\u2019s championship match between Dr. Britt Baker and Red Velvet. Before the debut, Henry took time for some Q&A with The Post\u2019s Joseph Staszewski.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Q: You signed with AEW in late May. Now that we are app<\/a>roaching the debut of \u2018Rampage,\u2019 how are you feeling with it being so close<\/strong>?<\/p>\n

A: I\u2019m excited. I\u2019ve been excited. I don\u2019t think that AEW realizes what\u2019s about to happen. I\u2019ve never been at a loss for words. I\u2019ve loved every microphone I\u2019ve even been in front of and I want to have a good time in pro wrestling. I think it\u2019s needed, it\u2019s wanted. There are enough people on the panel that can explain the Xs and Os, the ins and outs, the names of maneuvers. But explaining why something is happening, giving you a colorful analysis of what that is, is what I\u2019m gonna bring to the table. I\u2019m a really, really country Texas guy and a little colloquialism will come out and I think people are gonna like it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Q: You said during your \u201cAEW: Unrestricted\u201d interview that you would do some commentary backstage when you were wrestling. What did those entail and why did commentary appeal to you so much?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: It was actually something that a lot of us did just to entertain ourselves. It started off me and a couple other guys that are high-level name guys and we would just sit at the monitor and call the matches and entertain everybody, make everybody laugh around us. Every now and then something would be like, (starts commentary voice) \u201cHe\u2019s going to the top. I hope he don\u2019t get a nose bleed out there. We do have issues about blood now. You can\u2019t just bleed all over the place. He hit him with that thing.\u201d Then he goes, \u201cWhat thing?\u201d \u201cThat move, that flying burrito\u201d Just naming stuff that\u2019s not even a real thing, just having a good time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Mark Henry debuts on \u201cAEW Dynamite\u201d in May.<\/figcaption>
All Elite Wrestling<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Q: Did you have any regulars that would be there all the time<\/strong>?<\/p>\n

A: You know I have, but I don\u2019t work with these guys anymore. I\u2019m not gonna mention them.<\/p>\n

Q: You got some practice reps with Tony Schiavone kind of leading into this. How did that go and was there something you identified that, \u2018Hey, I need to work on this\u2019 or was it more polishing some things over?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: It was more polishing some stuff. There was a guy, he has an unbelievable haircut. If you ever tune into AEW, he looks like Goku from \u201cDragon Ball Z.\u201d He\u2019s got his hair and I\u2019m like, there\u2019s that kid Pantene standing there. And Tony just spits his drink out. He was like, \u201cYou called him Pantene?\u201d I said, \u201cLook at that hair. That\u2019s a hair commercial waiting to happen.\u201d We just laughed. We were having fun. Tony was like, \u201cdon\u2019t change.\u201d Nobody does that in wrestling.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Q: Where did the idea for the four-man booth for \u201cRampage\u201d come from and what challenges does that bring for you when you\u2019re doing this for the first time?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: I\u2019m the new guy. They already have a great relationship and they can put on a great show. I think it\u2019s a safety mechanism. I think just in case that I get on there and I\u2019m not good, (AEW president) Tony (Khan) had to put the safety mechanism in place and throw Chris (Jericho) out there just in case we have to save this thing. I don\u2019t think he has that to worry about. I think we\u2019ll start off a four-man booth and I think once they realize that I can handle it we\u2019ll go to a traditional three-man booth.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Mark Henry and Tony Schiavone<\/figcaption>
All Elite Wrestling<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A: How do you make \u201cRampage\u201d not feel like the B show or the lesser show like we\u2019ve seen happen with \u201cThunder\u201d in WCW and at times \u201cSmackDown\u201d was that way in WWE? How do you keep that from happening with this show?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Q: The way you do it is with talent. The better content you have the better things that can be said about it. I\u2019m not gonna dummy it down if I see something that\u2019s not good. This is something that I\u2019ll put my coach\u2019s cap on and I\u2019m gonna have to pull that guy and that girl aside and tell them that, \u201cHey, you got to do better.\u201d That\u2019s a style of analysis that you don\u2019t get on traditional wrestling because nobody\u2019s doing double roles, trip<\/a>le roles. I\u2019m putting my hand in the community area, I\u2019m putting my hand in the coaching area and the physiology-based area and I\u2019m doing commentary.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I want the guys and girls that appear on television to realize that sometimes\u2026I\u2019m gonna be critical because it\u2019s my job to be critical on (SiriusXM\u2019s) \u201cBusted Open\u201d and I feel like that\u2019s what people want. They want to hear our opinion. I will preface it, what I\u2019m saying is my opinion. When I have a hard take, it\u2019s gonna be this is opinion or the facts speak for themselves.<\/p>\n

Q: You talked about your coaching role. You had a hand in bringing Bianca Belair and Braun Strowman to WWE, and now Jade Cargill in AEW. When you see these athletes who are not wrestlers, what do you look for? What do you see that makes you go, \u201cHey, I think this person can do it?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: Have you ever walked in a room and somebody walks in. You are talking to your buddy, you\u2019re talking to your wife, you\u2019re talking to a friend and somebody walks in and everybody starts turning, going \u201cWho\u2019s that?\u201d Some people just have this, they say je ne sais quoi. I always say they have the star factor and I would rather find somebody with the star factor that\u2019s an athlete and make them a wrestler because that\u2019s what happened with me.<\/p>\n

Q: Why do you think this kind of opportunity just didn\u2019t happen for you in WWE as a full-time coach or producer?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: WWE has been tried and true for so many years because they\u2019re an older company. They have 50 years. It\u2019s experience-based. They hire people who can do the job, usually, and I didn\u2019t have any experience doing that. So, it\u2019s only fitting that I got to a young company that needs somebody who wants to do it and is not afraid, is never gonna crack when they turn the camera on. It was tailor-made. And AEW\u2019s product, I don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve watched the product over the past two months, but it\u2019s a better show. It\u2019s a really exciting show. You look up and you go, \u201cOh man, the show\u2019s going off?\u201d You lose track of time and that\u2019s what wrestling is supposed to do to you, suspend belief, make you laugh, make you mad, make you call your friend and go, \u201cDid you see what he did?\u201d<\/p>\n

Q: When you say that, what has allowed that to happen and what\u2019s been the difference philosophy wise working backstage in AEW to what was going on in WWE in your years there?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: Pro wrestling is the ultimate improvisational business, but it\u2019s also a business where you have to be able to entertain on the fly. It\u2019s the original Broadway, it\u2019s the original high pantomime show. You use your body to express what you say in words, your reactions, your facials, your inflection in your voice, everything. I think that AEW is allowing the talent to do that without micromanaging it and when you have passion and you have an artistic nature and you\u2019re allowed to let that come out, then you get individuals. You don\u2019t get cookie-cutter, stamp, stamp, stamp. And it gets old, and because you have a fresh idea in every match, you don\u2019t get the same thing over and over.<\/p>\n

Q: You have worked with CM Punk and Daniel Bryan. What would adding them to any wrestling company not named WWE do or mean for that company<\/strong>?<\/p>\n

A: I think it would be great for the companies because you have unbelievable talent and two of the more master psychologists that I\u2019ve worked with, guys that you sit down and you think, what\u2019s not being done in pro wrestling? When you have a mindset of, \u201cI want to do something everybody else don\u2019t do,\u201d then automatically you are ahead of the game<\/a>. You already have everybody. They\u2019re gonna be on edge because once they see something they haven\u2019t seen in years and it was really, really cool and you see someone who is well established and it\u2019s gonna get over.<\/p>\n

Q: What\u2019s your mindset about getting back in the ring?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: I got to get in wrestling condition. I walked up two flights of stairs the other day and it felt like somebody had put gasoline in my lungs. It would have to be the right person, one, and the right situation and ultimately what is it gonna add to the business? If it\u2019s gonna be ho-hum like, \u201cOh, Mark Henry is just having his last match,\u201d I don\u2019t want to do that. It\u2019s got to mean something.<\/p>\n

Q: Do you have any AEW talent in general<\/a> that\u2019s caught your eye?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: \u201cAll Ego\u201d Ethan Page, he\u2019s somebody I feel like people will really enjoy seeing me in the ring with. Ricky Starks, people would love that. I think to walk out and shut MJF up would be something people would be really, really excited to see because they know that if I did, there\u2019s Wardlow there. They have a faction that could help protect him, but when I come into play, it don\u2019t matter if you\u2019re a faction or not. I\u2019ll take everybody. It\u2019s gonna have to be the right situation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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