When talking to Mark Henry, there are two surefire guarantees: He will wax lyrical about every fighter under his tutelage, and speak nothing but the undiluted truth. Maybe it’s the boxer in him, but pulling punches just isn’t in the New Jersey native’s wheelhouse, while his palpable passion for the fight game – at least its purest version – is a refreshing contrast to the cynicism currently permeating elite MMA. That’s not to say Henry has remained untouched by the UFC’s seeming abandonment of the once unwavering meritocracy that helped distinguish the promotion from not only its contemporaries in MMA, but a boxing landscape increasingly mired by a venal bureaucracy
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