WWE icon predicts 19-year-old son will be ‘the next Kurt Angle’
WWE icon predicts 19-year-old son will be ‘the next Kurt Angle’
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To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video. Up Next. WWE Hall of Famer Mark Henry has high hopes for his son Jacob as he embarks on his own wrestling career. The World’s Strongest Man, who will be part of the For The Love of Wrestling convention at the BEC in Manchester on February 15 and 16, is proud to see his boy looking to follow in his footsteps after signing a deal with WWE.
![[Jacob Henry, son of WWE Hall of Famer Mark Henry, poses with Paul 'Triple H' Levesque backstage]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SEI_237568263-20af.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
Mark, 53, exclusively told Metro: ‘I think he could be really, really good, not just because he’s my son or because he’s a big guy, but because he’s brilliant and understands wrestling like I’ve taught him. ‘He understands wrestling at a level that a lot of people that are wrestling there today don’t know.’.
![[Kurt Angle puts the ankle lock on The Rock - Dwayne Johnson - during a WWE show]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SEI_237566721-a875.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
Current WWE Champion Cody Rhodes recently said Jacob, 19, could be the next Brock Lesnar, and while Mark agrees, the former weightlifter thinks comparisons to Kurt Angle are also apt after the former Olympian took pro wrestling by storm in the late 1990s.
![[WWE Hall of Famer Kurt Angle kneels in the ring]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SEI_237566703-3d6e.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
‘He’s going to get his opportunity, but he’s 19. When I was 19, I got thrown to the wolves. I had to face a lot of things that I shouldn’t had to face. He’s not going to be that way,’ he explained. ‘I’m not going to allow him to be thrown to the wolves. He’ll be well versed and well respected when he comes in and when he decides to wrestle, people will go, “Whoa, man”.
![[WWE Hall of Famer Mark Henry celebrates with the World Heavyweight Championship inside a steel cage]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SEI_215430322-0382.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
