
Mark Canterbury
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1964-03-16 (61 years old)
Place of Birth
Fairmont, West Virginia, USA
Mark Canterbury
Biography
Marcus Canterbury is an American retired professional wrestler. He is best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation in the mid to late 1990s under the ring name Henry O. Godwinn. He is also known for his appearances with World Championship Wrestling in the early 1990s as Shanghai Pierce. In 1996, Canterbury was reunited with Knight, who had been renamed Phineas I. Godwinn. The duo were portrayed as being cousins and were collectively known as "The Godwinns". The two were faces and were managed by Hillbilly Jim. They began to feud with the Body Donnas with Phineas having a crush on Sunny and signed her as their manager. They would beat the Body Donnas for the WWF Tag Team Championships. Eventually Sunny turned on them costing them their titles. The Godwinns feuded with the now heel Smoking Gunns, in losing efforts. In 1997, the Godwinns began a heel turn dropping Hillbilly Jim as a manager and picking up Uncle Cletus. The Godwinns quickly won the tag titles a second time from The Headbangers and began a heated feud with the Legion of Doom, which saw the team attempt to break Road Warrior Hawk's neck. They eventually dropped the titles to LOD in a match on WWF Monday Night Raw that had LOD's career on the line. Soon after that match they attacked and fired Cletus.
In April 1997, in a rematch between The Godwinns and the Legion of Doom, Canterbury cracked his C7 vertebra when he fell on his head after taking the Doomsday Device. He was advised by doctors to rest for fifteen weeks, but returned to the ring in less than eight weeks.
In 1998, Canterbury entered the Brawl for All, a shoot-fighting tournament held by the WWF. He lost in the first round to Bradshaw.
Later that year, the Godwinns dropped their pig farmer gimmicks, now going by their real names and wearing sharp suits under the name "Southern Justice", the bodyguards of Tennessee Lee. Six months later, Canterbury herniated his C7 vertebra and pinched a spinal nerve, necessitating spinal fusion surgery. This came as a result of him returning to the ring too early after his neck injury. He eventually left the WWF and retired, due to the neck injury suffered in 1997.
In September 2006, Canterbury wrestled several tryout matches with World Wrestling Entertainment. On September 15, 2006, WWE announced that he had been signed to a contract.[3] He debuted in Deep South Wrestling on November 30 as a tag partner for Ray Gordy. Gordy was known as Cousin Ray and they both reformed The Godwinns. Since both Gordy and Drew Hankinson went to the SmackDown brand, however, Godwinn's role remained uncertain.
On May 19, 2007, the Wrestling Observer reported that Canterbury had been released from his Personal life
Canterbury has two sons, named Shane and Jordan. Jordan was accidentally shot by a high school friend and died on October 31, 2003 in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. On November 9, 2011, Mark suffered two punctured lungs, thirteen broken ribs and a broken leg in a car accident.
In July 2016, Canterbury was named part of a class action lawsuit filed against WWE which alleged that wrestlers incurred traumatic brain injuries during their tenure and that the company concealed the risks of injury. The suit is litigated by attorney Konstantine Kyros, who has been involved in a number of other lawsuits against WWE.
Known For
Acting
(2020)
WWE Survivor Series 2020
as Henry O. Godwinn (Appearance)
(2013)
WWE: The Best Of In Your House
as Henry O. Godwin
(2008)
WWE: Triple H: The King of Kings - There is Only One
as Henry O. Godwin
(1998)
WWE No Way Out of Texas: In Your House
as Henry O. Godwinn
(1998)
WWE WrestleMania XIV
as Henry O. Godwinn
(1998)
WWE Royal Rumble 1998
as Henry O. Godwinn
(1998)
WWE SummerSlam 1998
as Mark Canterbury (Ringside)
(1998)
WWE Fully Loaded: In Your House
as Mark Canterbury (Appearance)
(1998)
Hitman Hart: Wrestling With Shadows
as Henry O. Godwinn
(1998)
WWE Breakdown: In Your House
as Mark Canterbury
(1998)
WWE Mayhem in Manchester
as Henry O. Godwinn
(1997)
WWE Royal Rumble 1997
as Henry O. Godwinn
(1997)
WWE WrestleMania 13
as Henry O. Godwinn
(1997)
WWE Survivor Series 1997
as Henry Godwinn
(1997)
WWE Badd Blood: In Your House
as Henry O. Godwinn
(1997)
WWE In Your House 13: Final Four
as Henry O. Godwinn
(1997)
WWE SummerSlam 1997
as Henry O. Godwin
(1997)
WWE One Night Only
as Henry Godwinn
(1997)
WWE Ground Zero: In Your House
as Henry Godwinn
(1997)
WWE Action Zone!
as Henry O. Godwinn
(1997)
WWE In Your House 16: Canadian Stampede
as Henry O. Godwin
(1996)
WWE Royal Rumble 1996
as Henry O. Godwinn
(1996)
WWE Survivor Series 1996
as Henry O. Godwinn
(1996)
WWE WrestleMania XII
as Henry O. Godwinn
(1996)
WWE SummerSlam 1996
as Henry O. Godwinn
(1996)
WWE King of the Ring 1996
as Henry O. Godwinn
(1996)
Best Of Raw • Volume One
as Henry Godwinn
(1996)
WWE Most Amazing Matches!
as Henry O. Godwinn
(1996)
WWE In Your House 9: International Incident
as Henry O. Godwinn
(1996)
WWE In Your House 7: Good Friends, Better Enemies
as Henry O. Godwinn
(1995)
WWE Royal Rumble 1995
as Henry O. Godwinn
(1995)
WWE Survivor Series 1995
as Henry O. Godwinn
(1995)
WWE In Your House 5: Seasons Beatings
as Henry O. Godwinn
(1995)
WWE In Your House 2: Lumberjacks
as Henry O. Godwinn
(1995)
WWE In Your House 3: Triple Header
as Henry O. Godwinn
(1993)
WCW Beach Blast 1993
as Shanghai Pierce
(1993)
WCW Battle Bowl
as Shanghai Pierce
(1993)
WCW Starrcade 1993
as Shanghai Pierce
(1993)
WCW Fall Brawl 1993
as Shanghai Pierce