Mark Henry was recently a guest on the Steve Austin Show podcast. During the podcast, he spoke on a wide variety of topics.
One of these topics was about the time when Shawn Michaels stole Henry’s crutches after he broke his ankle. This led to Henry threatening Michaels backstage.
Here is what Henry said about the incident and Vince McMahon’s reaction (h/t to 411 mania for the quote below):
“Well, it took me getting banished to Canada, because I threatened to kill Shawn Michaels. Like, they hid my crutches when I broke my ankle, and I just was like, ‘Okay this is it. Like, It’s over. I don’t want to do this.’ Aw, man, so I was like, ‘Man, you 180 pounds, man. I’d kill you man. It’d be unfair for me to whip you.’ And he was like ‘You threatening me?’ I was like, ‘I don’t think it’s really a threat. I’m just telling you like it is. Y’all need to leave me alone.’
And he told Vince, and Vince said, ‘Hey man, you can’t threaten our top guys! What’s wrong with you?’ And I was like, ‘Look man, I just ain’t used to nobody trying me. Like if they wanna try me they gotta be able to accept the consequences,’ [Vince said] ‘No, dammit! You can’t just be beating people up! It’s not gonna fix it. They’re trying to bring you in, but you’re pushing them back.’”
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On a related note, check some more backstage stories about Shawn Michaels here.