Mark Henry is an excellent choice for Christian's first title defense since ABR is now on Raw. Mark while he may not be the best on the mic, he like Kane shortly before his MITB/WH title run was well respected by the fans and has above-average in-ring ability to push Christian into getting back into the swing of main-event form. Another benefit on the timing of this, is that smaller champions (based on stature, not height) tend to have more entertaining (3 star+) matches with larger wrestlers than wrestlers of a same build type as they are. (The few exceptions that tend to exist, tend to make 4+ star matches, but they have to be right people, right time). Henry is also pretty good at playing the monster heel (ECW Run). I love this idea of having him versus Christian. While I doubt Henry will win the title, I hope the feud it does last 2-3 months, as it will re-build Henry and Christian's credibility, and give a great transition into another upper-midcard heel that could start a feud going into Summerslam such as others have said Cody Rhodes or possibly even Wade Barrett or Sheamus.
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