AEW Name Explains ‘Gratifying’ Backstage Role

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AEW’s Mark Henry has held many roles, including commentator, coach and talent scout since joining the company in 2021.

The Hall of Famer left WWE in early 2021, making his AEW in May of that year at Double or Nothing.

In a recent appearance on the Kurt Angle Show, Henry opened up about his role in AEW as a coach, saying:

“I feel like I’m more of a wrestling counselor than a coach. I don’t teach them how. I want them to already know how.

“I teach them where you do it, when you do it, why you do it and I teach them how to think outside the box because that’s what Stu Hart did for me, and Leo Berke and Tom Prichard and Rip Rogers and Jim Cornette did for me.

“I enjoy the personal one-on-ones [with talent], the people I talk to every week. It’s working, and when you see what you do works, it’s gratifying.

“I sit back sometimes like, ‘Man I did that.’ And the kids, they smile. Action Andretti, every time he walks past me he [smiles], and I know what it means. He’s saying thank you.”

Mark Henry moved into a backstage role in WWE after WrestleMania 33 in 2017 and was inducted into the Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2018.

He last competed in the ring at WWE Greatest Royal Rumble in the match of the same name on April 27, 2018 in Saudi Arabia.

In September 2023, Powerhouse Hobbs revealed that Henry is working on a possible comeback to in-ring action.

Transcript from ewrestlingnews.com.

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