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Mark Henry Explains How Owen Hart Was A Mentor To Him, Says He’d Want To Be Inducted Into The WWE Hall Of Fame With His Brother

Mark Henry recently spoke about his relationship with Owen Hart on this week’s co-hosting gig on Busted Open Radio with Dave LaGreca. You can read a few highlights (transcription credit to Bill Pritchard for Wrestlezone.com) and watch the clip below:

Mark Henry on his relationship with Owen Hart: 

Owen Hart was council, he was a teacher first, and then like a brother to me. He took care of me and taught me how to relate to the locker room. Nobody ever talked about locker room etiquette; Owen was that guy. We also talked about psychology, we traveled the world together, and Owen didn’t like to drive. [laughs] I liked to drive, so it was like a match made in heaven, like OK I’ll jump out and get some food and jump back in. We just had a really good relationship, especially after I came from Canada in 1998-99, and he just helped me along, just how to handle situations. There [were] some issues about me always wanting to fight rather than talk, and he was like ‘you can’t beat up everybody. That’s not going to solve problems.’ And I just listened.

Like Jeff [Jarrett] was saying, Owen had a way of lightening a serious moment like nobody in the world. It was like he was just something random, and make the rest of it up. Everybody – all parties, both angry parties – would be laughing and shaking hands in a matter of minutes, so he was a really good peacemaker. I was saying to you, if I’m ever blessed to go into the [WWE] Hall of Fame, I would want to go in with my brother. I would want to at least be able to tell [Owen’s wife] Martha that whatever the business did to hurt her and the family — I want to apologize, because Owen would do it for me. He deserves to be in his rightful place, and that’s in the Hall Of Fame.

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