Was Mark Henry Natural?
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Thanks For Watching. After considering the evidence presented in the video what do you believe?
It’s interesting how 19-year-old Hafþór Björnsson, 16-year-old Eddie Hall, and 11-year-old Mark Henry all had similar body weights.
Bruh 🤣🤣🤣
You forgot 9 year old _Lizzo..._
@@adamkane7513LMAOOO
Personally, I think Mark’s just one of those genetically gifted freaks who had the right people around him helping with his training, most the stuff he did was extremely impressive, but not impossible for a man his build who’s been actively competing in multiple strength sports for years
i believe Mark Henry is natural because he is a 400lb strong man still healthy in his 50s and the fact that he's always been a super heavy weight to achieve the feats of strength which most naturals would need to do to be strong, ripped guys being strong and big is more suspect
If mark is natural...Then im curious what would happen if he did a cycle
Basically Eddie Hall
@@nicholasdimedio302stronger than Eddie
Not as much as you'd think
@@Lickmabumbum 10-20% increase in strength with roids. Do your maths now.
Depends entirely on his genetics for how well he responds to gear. I know people who don't take very much and get insane results, and I also know guys that take a bunch of stuff, train harder than you can imagine, and eat about as perfect as you can get... and they're still small, decently strong, but not anything beyond what a decent natural lifter could achieve with hard work and dedication.
after finishing the video, I'd say that there is enough evidence to at lest give him the benfit of the doubt
lol
Mark was and still is one of a kind... 💪💯
Most people have never lifted heavy, so they'll say yes... Do I think he was natural? Yes, but I could be wrong. It doesn't matter to me. Unlike most people, if I see a really strong guy or girl, I don't immediately wonder if they take PEDs, because there is that much more to getting strong af, it's not even funny. I wish we had more participants in strength sports, because nobody would jump to such stupid conclusions.
I actually beleve mark. He talks exactly like I did when clean and disgruntled over people cheating I'm tested strength sports and I also would reach the top In my sport beyond the boarders of my respective country. Also there were no insane peaks or lows and valleys I can think of and no extreme fast transformations. I literally think he had the best genetics for power sports of all strength sports of all time.
This.
The fuck is natty
that i think not
Mark Henry was for sure the most likely to be natty top strength athlete in history. Even for the biggest cynics he was tested so often that even if he was on drug he would have not been able to do them in the quantities that less tested or untested athletes could do. I will roll with.. I think he was natty
He only did pee cup tests, they cant detect anything. Mike Tyson passed every test he took in the 90s despite admitting to being a huge cokehead at the time.
you dont understand most ped's used are undetectable from any test
drug tests were easy to cheat on
@@ur-inannak9565 lol. Coke is not out of your system in 1 day compared to weeks for HGH.
@@eroccha Not true, guys have been caught for coke 3-4 weeks later. Also Tyson specified the common method for beating the test was the whizzinator, a prosthetic penis with a chamber to preload with clean urine from a friend who does not used PEDs or other drugs.
Mark was all natural. He refused to compete in events free of drug testing.
Terry Todd is beyond reproach imho, great video, thank you.
No doubt!
Truth comes out. Being called delusional - worth it.
@@japanesecar1501 When were u called delusional buddy?
@@abhinavkumar547 I was saying why Mark is by far the greatest on every video I watched about Mark that popped up.
I always pointed why he was natural, and his ties to Terry, and left it at that. I did browse a good bit around, and peeps weren't getting it. I've said he was big enough, and that's enough. I had a small thread with reply's exolaining to me why I am delusional to think so, but the I never let it die, as the facts were clear, but I felt like the fact people didn't understand geometry and size had to be adressed, as Ed, Brian, Z and Thor are small compared to Mark.
I just wanted tonput the bug out, that people would be inclined to just believe their eyes. Anyone with common sense could see he was natural, but what's common sense, anyway. I was getting flamed for a good dozen years for it man! 😆
@@abhinavkumar547 I had been training striking for a good time as a child, and had reached elite (for what it was worth) metrics, by 2005 ish when I first saw him it "was owa' !" I had the "eyeballing" down then, and he was bona fide natural hippopotamus. He was obviously way way beyond the pack, and he stuck out like a sore thumb, Pfister was a simliar case, but Mark is what he is. He is a Fat weightclass above Z naturally, and his potential reflected that.
Mark Henry is the closest thing we might had to a SUPER HUMAN, he was abnormally large and strong even as a kid and looking at his family you can see the genetics, this man was a freak of nature in al the good sense of the word, he was truly BUILD DIFFERENT.
This raises the question of what mark couldve done with Peds. Wonder if you could do a vid based on other athletes natty/enhanced % strength changes, and apply that to mark.
Hii buddy did u read the article given in the link of this video written by Dr. Terry Todd?Read the article of Dr. Terry Todd given in the link of this video, titled Mark Henry's dilemma - reflections on drugs at Olympics. I quote his words of the article, " There are arguments to how much steroids help a lifter, but most experts believe that they provide a 10 to 20% edge. Using this standard , instead of the 529 lbs Mark's practice lift had led us to expect in the clean and jerk , for instance he would have been capable of lifting 582 or 635 - enough to have easily won the gold medal. "
I'm over 400 pounds myself.
I had twenty six inch arms at four hundred And 40 pounds. I look at mark Henry, and hes still a big guy next to me. He will go down as one of the greatest power lifters, strong men, weight lifters, and even wrestlers.
Is this Julius Maddox himself?
@@dummy9517gotta be... 26inch arms are no joke😂😂😂
Lance Armstrong was tested like 300 times during his career. Passing drug tests isn't all that it takes to be drug free.
It is not only about drug tests, there r many other proofs that suggests strongly that he was natural.
@@abhinavkumar547 him having large family members isn't that convincing either. And Terry Todd was a great guy, I respected him a lot and made a trip to his museum the last time I was in Austin. But it's easy to fool people. And it's even easier to blame getting beat in the Olympics on drugs. That's not new in weightlifting.
@@josephbloxham3992 Why would Dr. Todd fool people? What would he have gained by fooling people? He was one of the first man to question Paul Anderson's mythical 6300 lbs backlift and later provided irrefutable proofs that Paul's lift was exaggerated and in fact it didn't even happen.
If anything, he was known for his outspoken nature and honesty. No reason to lie.
It's not just about Mark Henry's family. Look at Mark Henry himself. He was heavier, bulkier and stronger than any of the strength athletes u can think of at the similar age from teenage years to mid 20s until he left competitive lifting for pro wrestling. He was already 400 lbs by the age of 19. The most he weighed during his competitive career was 414 lbs by the age of 25 . Clearly states he was natural. Didn't blow up suddenly in size and strength like every other strength athlete bar Anderson who was himself a natural.
Plus his criticism of iwf president suggest strongly that he was what was claiming to be. U can't slam your top officials like how he did in public as it creates a bad image of your sport its top officials. But Henry didn't care, he was really pissed off that the sports is filled with cheats and that how he as a lifetime drug free athlete was at significant disadvantage competing against these guys who have enhanced their abilities with chemicals. U guys r not realising that Henry was literally threatened by president Ajan to keep his mouth shut or he would end his career.
Also, his open challenge to any powerlifters that would beat him for $ 10,000 wasn't accepted by any man.
@@josephbloxham3992he was 225 at 9 years old dude it’s just in him
@@richerprior5961 there's a lot of big kids out there. Not a lot of thousand pound squatters. I'm not saying it's for sure he was running gear, but saying he was a big kid and had a fat 6'8" uncle doesnt mean he was natural.
he is a monster anyway
He quit the Olympics because most of the athletes were using steroids.
Hey, sir, I was wondering if you could make a video about Hermann Gorner vs. Mark Henry, and I love your work as well
I believe he was natural Dr Terry Todd would have never put his reputation on the line if he thought otherwise
The great mr.todd the commissioner of power....do a video on him.
First things first, Mark is a class and has never shown anyone a reason to question his integrity. His strength has been documented as perdigious since he was a child. There have been no documented peaks and valleys in his strength or lift figures. He also has probably the widest and most diverse body of strength sports achievements of anyone in The world. No one has been teated more, at a more stringent level, and peoduced the kind of results he has.
I think Mark was just a genetic freak and if Dr Terry Todd claimed he was drug free then there's no doubt in my mind he was pure class a legend in strength sports thanks for the video God bless
If he did then it sure didn't show, dude didn't have 1 million veins around the chest, and he didnt have 10-15% bodyfat at 412 pound's.
Undoubtedly natural imo.
Mark is a freak n I definitely believe he was natty he is a rare case n just naturally big as well
Wtf he was tested almost every 3 weeks... NO ONE has ever been tested that much... UFC and Olympic athletes get tested like once a year...
Your research and your details are phenomenal, personally I don't think there's a possibility to step in the realm of which Mark rules without abusing drugs.
Thanks buddy although credit to Abhinav, he helped me a lot on this one.
Then you haven't met people that are extremely strong without even training
This makes me wish he had hopped on gear, just to see what would happen
This is a very well done video, with convincing arguments, but I just cant believe that Mark was natural. His feats of strength are legendary, either way!
Look what he did as a teenager. Without supplements and a proper coach. God given talent my friend.
Dr. Todd is as close to UNIMPEACHABLE in strength sports as you can get. Todd has never stuck his neck out for a strength athlete without being 100% sure. You CANNOT fool a guy like Dr. Todd. Too smart. If Dr. Todd (and Bill Kazmaier) say you are clean, you are clean.
Henry is a god amongst strength athletes and WITHIN strength circles he's considered the strongest.
Mark IMO is the STRONGEST human being to ever live.
Fascinating
Mark Henry is true legend and in my opinion together with Big Z shares equal right to claim title of strongest man in history.
The only thing that sets him apart from other lifters who claim natty is how outspoken he is against steroids. It's sad that that is so rare and it means something to me. I want to believe.
That's not the only thing that sets him apart. I find it quite surprising that so many people are commenting something similar to this. All of these guys including u have clearly not understand this video.
No, MARK IS NATURAL. 100%. Name ONE other strength athlete that has EVER been tested once every 3 weeks by SEVEN DIFFERENT FEDERATIONS.
Hes literally been tested more than any supposed natty lifter EVER and never failed a test. He even VOLUNTEERED his blood to WADA after they were created, the ONLY athlete i know to do that (clearly he's trying to prove a point).
Another video for eddie hall if he is natty or not
The thing is Eddie doesn’t claim natty mark will claim natty straight to Eddie’s face
eddie is NOT NATTY and has never claimed to be
He was very often tested randomly and not a trace of PEDs was ever found.
When hafthor 19 he was 205 kg means is far beeter than mark Henry
My favorite natty lifter is Andrew Richard
Mark is probably the strongest person to walk this earth💯
I dont think he is natural, but If theres a genetic type that could lift the weights he lifted naturally, that would definitely be a genetic type like he has
100% NATURAL. He volunteered his blood to Wada! Let think sink in.
@@feynmanschwingere_mc2270 in what year?
Competed in a well known powerlifting fed. I was talking to a older guy there as we were in the warmup area and he suggested some of the guys wear on something. Naively, I said I thought this is a drug free fed. He said drug tested doesn’t mean drug free. One of the guys we were watching hit an 800+ equipped squat. They selected him and he tested negative but later positive at another meet. Not saying Mark was a cheat but the average guy won’t come close to matching his high school strength level without taking something.
I partly agree. It's reasonably easy to use PED's and come off shortly before a comp while still keeping many of the gains and passing the doping test, however being tested 23 times in one year would make this impossible
Mark got tested once every 3 weeks. UNFATHOMABLE that he could take PEDS without detection getting tested that frequently.
Actually, no one will ever know how strong Mark truly is, or what he could have accomplished. Many people have said he very well could be the strongest man on the planet
Imagine this man on duck eggs...
i wonder how strong he will be if he did take it
Strongest ever
Similar tbh
@@LickmabumbumNot similar.
I believe there is a good chance Henry was natural.
lol
I believe that Mark is the second strongest natural powerlifter of all time after Brian Shaw. Mark is an amazing individual, but Brian Shaw was also tested drug-free every time he was tested. Brian Shaw is the strongest natural individual ever, but the only problem is that people envy him and hes hard work, so they choose not to believe him.
Brian has never been a Powerlifter, he's a Strongman and thus has never been tested for Steroids.
Shaw, 1, does NOT claim to be natural. 2. He is NOT a powerlifted so he has never been tested for steroids. 3. Shaw has never voluntarilty submitted to a doping test like Henry has several times.
You are lying.
Henry was also arguably stronger at 23 than Shaw EVER was.
I am extremely confident that the big man was natty. He was and still is a freak among freaks. I’m average by comparison and have gotten pretty damn strong without drugs.
yes yes he did lots of them
@gregdoucette do u think mark was natural
Awesome lifter
We needed Ajan. Under Ajan we had normal corruption. He kept WLing in the Olympics. Now that he's gone...
That is just straight genetics. There's was no biological meddling. I can only imagine the grocery bill every month. You have to eat alot to get that big and maintain it.
Haftherthor bjosrsion is 21 yrs over 210 kg he was natural
Paul Anderson natty?
Mark Henry was and still is 100% natural
Anyone that can't deal with that is a hater 😂
Mark genuinely was a freak, he never ever looked like he took steroids, and he very healthy even now in his mid 50s
Why would anyone competing at that level choose to be natural? You know at least some of the people you compete against won't be. Even if you were he most honest person in the world there would be no reason to stay natural, as taking PED's as the name states enhances your performance. So to the evidence, there is no reason he couldn't have cycled on and off is there, and even with the greatest genertics in the world it will be heartbreaking to lose to the guy with the second best genetics in the world on PED's. It's a shame gear exists, but it does.
You could even taken them years before and come off and still have the benefits and pass a test. I have a friend who hammered gear for years hasn't done it for years, but is still far far bigger and stronger for having done it had he been life long natty.
Did u watch the full video? Also read the article given in the link, Mark Henry's dilemma - reflections on drugs at Olympics written by Dr. Terry Todd in 1998 . It has a detailed story about how and why Mark remained natural and why did he chose to remain natural. People have different upbringings, sometimes they prefer moral over any thing else. Mark took pride in being drug free more than any of the competitions he won or world records he set.
@@abhinavkumar547 I did, I still see no reason you would enter a sport where you know everyone's cheating without cheating yourself. What if he hadn't done as well? It would have been soul crushing psychologically. I take the same view of people who take gear just to arouse their gym bros why risk your health for something so insignificant. It's the opposite scenario, but same train of thought. Plenty people who were the squeakiest of clean moral people subsequently exposed.
Once over when the Olympics started even training was considered cheating......look ow things have changed.
@@richluke24 People were caught years later who claimed natural, that's how u know they weren't clean. It has been over 25 years since Mark Henry last competed and nothing has been come out to indicate even remotely that he was on peds.
@@abhinavkumar547 other than the fact that he was a world class athlete, competing against and beating other World Class Athletes with amazing genetics and full of gear. I don't believe any top level athlete claiming to be 100% natural. There is no reason to.
@@richluke24 No other human competing in any kind of sports who claim themselves to be lifetime natural has gone to the extent of Mark to openly criticize and slam the higher most authority ( ie., in case of Mark, iwf president) of their respective sports. Over the years many athletes in powerlifting and weightlifting have claimed themselves to be lifetime drug free including the likes of Shane Hamman, Ray Williams, Jezza Uepa, Jesus Olivaires etc but none of them did or could do what Mark did due to 2 reasons :
1. They were themselves not drug free and just claimed/claims to be so because of the image they needed to maintain in front of public as they competed/competes in drug tested federations.
2. It is pretty obvious that criticizing and slamming the top official of your sport is not a smart move and can lead to your suspension or end of your career.
Consider this.
Also, if Mark wasn't natural then why did he laid open challenge to every top powerlifters of his time to compete at 4 drug free meets one after another and pass their tests and he would do it too and then at 5th meet those guys needed to face him and beat him in powerlifting. He offered a $ 10,000 to anyone who got successful in beating him but unsurprisingly none of the guys accepted his challenge. Can u think why? Powerlifting was a niche sport back then and it still is and it doesn't have opportunity to earn great money. If Mark was offering a good money, they why didn't they accept his challenge.
As I stated in my previous comment, his moral value encouraged him to not touch anabolic steroids. He didn't even know what steroids were until 18 years of age and by that time was already the 3 time Texas State powerlifting champion and bench pressed 525 lbs, deadlifted 815 lbs and squatted 832 lbs. It's only when he started lifting these nos. that people started accusing him of taking steroids and that's when he heard the name of it for the first time and its role in strength sports.
Compare his size, bodyweight, bulk and strength to any of the top strength athletes u know whether in powerlifting, weightlifting or strongman, none of them were as strong as him, had as much prodigious bulk as him at the similar young age. What's fascinating is that Mark was stronger than all of them in terms of overall body strength from his teenage years to 25 years of age until he left competitive lifting in favour of his pro wrestling. He had crazy genetics for strength and probably had the most strength potential out of any of the modern strength athletes u can think of.
Regarding your question that why didn't he take drugs when everyone was on it knowing it placed him at significant disadvantage compared to people who have enhanced their amazing talent with chemicals, was due to the fact that he came from a very small town of silsbee Texas and had quite different upbringing than most of the other lifters as I said he didn't even know what drugs were as he was shielded from the ugly underbelly of the iron sports having grown up in small town and having trained at his high school with high school athletes. Had he come from a city and trained with older lifters he would most certainly have been told by those lifters to take peds. As it was by the time he really knew what steroids were , he was already stronger than almost anyone who might have recommended their use so he had the psychological strength to just say no.
Lastly, Dr. Terry Todd widely regarded as the most knowledgeable expert in the field of strength sports and himself being the first man to total over 1600,1700,1800, 1900 lbs total and the first man to officially deadlift 700 lbs in competition, has said clearly time and again that Mark was 100% drug free. There was no reason to lie and it wouldn't have benefitted him in any way and he was known for his outspoken nature and complete honesty. When he first met Mark, he made sure whether Mark was completely natural or not by digging up his past and from then point onward Mark throughout his lifting journey trained under his guidance. So he knew Mark personally and would more than any of us. The problem is people find it difficult to grasp that any man can be naturally this strong because since the discovery of anabolic steroids nearly every top athletes were/ are on them and it has dimmed the mind of people to believe that these nos. cannot be achievable with natural strength granted that person should have one of the craziest strength genetics. Paul Anderson was another nattie who was moving these kinds of weights back in the 50s and 60s when anabolic steroids just started to come in full effect in USA.
What even type of question is that, you ok bud ?
drug tested doesn't mean drug free. I don’t believe any of these things can be achieved naturally regardless if genetics and bodyweight, I've been doing this for a long time.
Dr. Todd is as close to UNIMPEACHABLE in strength sports as you can get. Todd has never stuck his neck out for a strength athlete without being 100% sure. You CANNOT fool a guy like Dr. Todd. Too smart. If Dr. Todd (and Bill Kazmaier) say you are clean, you are clean.
Henry is a god amongst strength athletes and WITHIN strength circles he's considered the strongest.
Mark IMO is the STRONGEST human being to ever live. Dr. Todd's opinion > yours.
He would never have staked his entire reputation on one guy unless it was true.
Do your research on Dr. Todd.
All strongaman are natural like mark henry
None of them are natural
Any possibility his parents slipped some hgh or simillar when he was little ?
Mark's dad already passed away when he was a little kid. His mother was very poor, far from affording something like hgh.
Big show was never 7’2 lol
He was billed at 7'2", in reality he was close to 7' at his peak although these days probably nearer 6'10
World's Nattiest Man
They all used steroids I'd be more surprised if there was someone who didn't. Same with 90's baseball players
Proofs suggested other wise that Mark used.
really
I honestly don't care if strength athletes are natty or not.
natty??
It's not an issue for me either but is important when trying to compare athletes
@@StrengthUniverse I don't even think that's true. How much can they lift? That's the ultimate bottom line.
@@ivornworrell Natural: i.e. no PEDs.
eh, proof?@@damiensmith9240
Ofc he was on gear as every other top athlete
Idk… That athlete is willing to test far more than most others. Steroids are still quite a hushed subject in strength sports, like strongman. I think he is natty with just 1 in a billion genetics, but that is just my belief.
He was just a natural monster, he was over 200 lbs at 9 years old.
yes, its highly unlikely to get to the top of ones game without gear, let aole stay there
@@ivornworrellit’s not impossible it’s just rare n genetic
@@warblackjack5565 Yes, and he coincidentally chose to stay natural and marginally weaker than the top competitors in the sports. You people are comical.
Mark absolutely hated PEDs and PEDs users and often openly criticized them.
lol
I believe in my ❤️...that Mark Henry never used gear. He was constantly tested in WWF/WWE, and tested before competition.
Other than the Arnold in 2002/03 (I forget the year) might have done a cycle for that, just considering he put wrestling on the back burner for almost a year.
Being tested in WWF/WWE is a hoax considering numerous wrestlers were on gear…Ultimate Warrior, Hogan, Cena, Triple H, even Vince himself.
All wrestlers are on drugs lol
@@noncog1 Mark and a few others are exceptions. You can’t say somebody like CM punk was on drugs considering his physique was so shitty.
When he was 9 years old and weighing 225 lbs, what kind of body composition did he have? I cannot find a single picture of him as a kid, no matter how I phrase the search terms. He could've just been obese and not insanely muscular, though likely more muscular than most. I am very skeptical, and two of these things: the "I'm constantly being tested" and "He constantly speaks out against steroids" are often seen in fake natties and certainly do not prove anything.
Being randomly tested more then 23 times in the same year he won the national and world powerlifting championships and set all time record in the squat and deadlift should say it all. There is no way anyone who uses PEDs is passing that amount of random tests by 7 different federations.
Mark didn't just speak out against steroids he openly criticised the Presidient of the IWF who could have ended Marks career. Also consider Marks shear size (350lbs at 16), where he came from and the fact he could bench press 300lbs and squat 600lbs+ at 14.
Why did they not accept his challenge and earn $10,000?
@@Henry-yi4rg Exactly, that would have been the equivalent of $20,000 today
He looked exactly the same as he did at 19, 29, 39, 49 only smaller.
Dr. Todd is the most renown voice in strong man and strength sports.
Todd says Mark Henry (and Kazmaier second, behind Henry) are the two strongest humans of all time.
His youth records STILL have not been broken.
Dr. Todd is as close to UNIMPEACHABLE in strength sports as you can get. Todd has never stuck his neck out for a strength athlete without being 100% sure. You CANNOT fool a guy like Dr. Todd. Too smart. If Dr. Todd (and Bill Kazmaier) say you are clean, you are clean.
Henry is a god amongst strength athletes and WITHIN strength circles he's considered the strongest.
Mark IMO is the STRONGEST human being to ever live. Dr. Todd's opinion > yours.
He would never have staked his entire reputation on one guy unless it was true.
Do your research on Dr. Todd.
Mark Henry is similar to Jesus Olivares and his family who are also all really strong. Jesus's brother Pablo recently did a 400kg squat and I believe they are both natural lifters. Two brothers who both squat 400kg plus
They're all on it ffs.. Henry included ..
The majority are but that's not everyone.
Show proof Henry is on roids. Just one bit of prooof.
Shaw etc wont compete in drug tested meets.
All top strongmen are on gear, all top powerlifters are on gear, all top mma fighters are on gear, all top weightlifters are on gear.
Except that none of them have as strong a case like Mark to be natural and none of them were tested approx. once every 3 weeks in their peak.
What about e.p.o or anything else 😂
Erythropoietin is only of any real benefit for endurance. Please feel free to name anything else you think could have slipped through over 50 random drug tests
Mark without a doubt was national and it’s crazy how people think he wasn’t natural tho he literally was at the top breaking/ setting records (drug tested a lot) and decided to quit because it’s so many fakes.
Is this serious? It's strongman and powerlifting, I thought it was just known that these guys are enhanced. It's not even looked at as "cheating". This is weird.....
All the evidence clearly indicates he was natural
If you really think so.....
@@knobjob2839 Did u watch the whole video? Did u read the article provided in the link? Do u think it is just a matter of opinion when the godfather of strength sports in America and the most knowledgeable expert on the subject Dr. Terry Todd has said clearly that Mark was 100% natural ? When Dr. Todd said that he made sure that he indeed was what he was claiming.
I do not think that Mark Henry used steroids, but bringing up genetics is not always a good point. Look at Ronnie Coleman. He had good genetics and used steroids. You can also look at the Rock, Dwayne Johnson. He and his father, Rocky Johnson, both looked like they used steroids, but they look like they had good genetics too.
But Mark didn't look like he used steroids and even now he don't look like that. He was always a big kid. Mark's genetics was elite 1 in a billion rarer than Ronnie or Dwayne's genetics.
@@abhinavkumar547 Well you could look at powerlifters and people that compete in strongman competitions. They already have good genetics, but they use PEDs to boost their performance. Look at Larry Wheels. He had good genetics to begin with. He used PEDs to boost his performance.
@@abhinavkumar547Let me say again that I do not think that Mark Henry used steroids. I just thought the genetics point was not a good point, because most powerlifters and strongman have good genetics to begin with.
@@RonnieM90 Definitely all have good genetics but Mark's genetics stood out even out of them.
Absolutely natural. Mass moves mass
Definitely natty he’s not stroking out like others
Overall Mark Henry is a natural and one of the gifted persons out there. The reason most people citicize him for not been natural because they did not expect a small boy, from a small town to come out to be one of the greatest of all time and it was also evident that in his family most of them especially the males were huge so obviously the genetics will be passed down. Person are just quick to judge others as persons are naturally gifted, some had it pass down through genetics and some work their asses off to reach where they are in life.
If he really didn’t then it’s sad what we could have had.
I definitely believe him, I wish he would’ve kept going.
Personally I don't believe he has been natty throughout his entire career. No doubt he was gifted with natural strength but at some point he had to take PEDs.
In one of the interview he gave he claimed that he had no idea what steroids were and what they did untill he got involved into wrestling... The problem is that in other interview he said that he left olimpic lifting because others were on gear.
This two statements contradict each other.
No. THE ACTUAL quote is he didnt know what steroids were until he turned 18.
Name another athlete to be drug tested by 7 different federations.
You cant.
Bro its not natural beacuse is never possible in this world
Hard to say, in my opinion, but one way or another. He was a Beast big guy, i'd like to guy. I like to measure wtwitter but I don't feel that he was the strongest man of all time. His bench press wasn't that good. To make that claim be in the world stronger man. I believe Dan bell was the strongest man in the world. Power lifting total. 26 0 6 raw.
He won the Arnold classic beating the wsm at the time so I think there's a reasonable claim to it, although obviously not the strongest ever
@@bruuhhhhDr. Todd is the most renown voice in strong man and strength sports.
Todd says Mark Henry (and Kazmaier second, behind Henry) are the two strongest humans of all time.
His youth records STILL have not been broken.
Dr. Todd is as close to UNIMPEACHABLE in strength sports as you can get. Todd has never stuck his neck out for a strength athlete without being 100% sure. You CANNOT fool a guy like Dr. Todd. Too smart. If Dr. Todd (and Bill Kazmaier) say you are clean, you are clean.
Henry is a god amongst strength athletes and WITHIN strength circles he's considered the strongest.
Mark IMO is the STRONGEST human being to ever live. Dr. Todd's opinion > yours.
He would never have staked his entire reputation on one guy unless it was true.
Do your research on Dr. Todd.
mark henry is a hero and the world's actual strongest man of all time
Larry Wheels is the only man I know of who may be stronger than Mark pound for pound, but there were other greats tho, like Ron Coleman, Nasser rip, Kovacs rip, Paul big pauly Dillett, Lou big lou Ferrigno, not forgetting the fine ladies, Bev, Tracy, Amazonka, Lisa, Blaze etc
The problem is every person you mentioned uses Steroids, Mark was natural
There have been many strength athletes who were pound for pound stronger than Mark and it doesn't mean anything. When we talk about strongest we mean absolute strength.
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This feels like an April Fools video, I'm surprised anyone who runs a channel about lifting would believe this bullshit haha.
Then by your logic Dr. Terry Todd was a fool who said time and again very clearly that Mark was natural.
Actually lol. He was, for sure, 100 on gear.
However, probably on minimal of substances and on top of that had 1 in a Billion genetics
@@dummy9517 He wasn't on gears that's for sure. Points provided by strength universe strongly suggests he was not.
The biggest sign imo when it comes to steroid use is the tightness of the skin and Mark seemed pretty normal. Even fat strongmen you can see the structure of their muscles and tightness of their skin cannot be achieved naturally. Mark Henry is built more like a sumo wrestler which is what a natural 400lb+ guy should look like not like Eddie Hall or Big Z who, despite having giant bellies, have proportional arms, shoulders and legs plus abs and tight skin.
100 percent natty.
100% natural
..I've never juiced, yet have been lifting weights off n on my whole life..subsqntly, have been around them and it's pretty obvious when someone is.. acromegaly, zits, wrists n hands widen..several concerning factors w overlapping aspects...most notably rapid strength gains...
..not to mention, various health problems..including cancer, liver/kidney problems.. diverticulitis..among others..
..steroids to me are far worse then some recreational drugs..except booze..once you start blacking out..forget about it..
..and mark Henry never exhibited none of these..in fact, I would bet my life he is natural..I followed and paid close attention to him my whole life..
..cheers everyone n good luck..