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    Mark Canterbury

    1964-03-16 (60 years old) in Fairmont, West Virginia, USA

    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.

    Movies

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    WWE Survivor Series 2020
    75 %|Nov 22, 2020
    Action, Drama
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    WWE: Triple H: The King of Kings - There is Only One
    71 %|Jun 10, 2008
    Action, Documentary
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    Hitman Hart: Wrestling With Shadows
    75 %|Dec 20, 1998
    Documentary
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    WWE Breakdown: In Your House
    70 %|Sep 27, 1998
    Action, Drama
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    WWE SummerSlam 1998
    90 %|Aug 30, 1998
    Action, Drama
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    WWE Fully Loaded: In Your House
    63 %|Jul 26, 1998
    Action, Drama
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    WWE Mayhem in Manchester
    0 %|Apr 3, 1998
    Action, Drama
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    WWE WrestleMania XIV
    76 %|Mar 29, 1998
    Action, Drama
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    WWE No Way Out of Texas: In Your House
    71 %|Feb 15, 1998
    Action, Drama
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    WWE Royal Rumble 1998
    67 %|Jan 18, 1998
    Action, Drama
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    WWE Survivor Series 1997
    88 %|Nov 9, 1997
    Action, Drama
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    WWE Badd Blood: In Your House
    71 %|Oct 5, 1997
    Action, Drama
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    WWE One Night Only
    70 %|Sep 20, 1997
    Action, Drama
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    WWE Ground Zero: In Your House
    100 %|Sep 7, 1997
    Action, Drama
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    WWE SummerSlam 1997
    80 %|Aug 2, 1997
    Action, Drama
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    WWE In Your House 16: Canadian Stampede
    90 %|Jul 6, 1997
    Action, Drama
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    WWE WrestleMania 13
    75 %|Mar 23, 1997
    Action, Drama
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    WWE In Your House 13: Final Four
    80 %|Feb 16, 1997
    Action, Drama
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    WWE Royal Rumble 1997
    73 %|Jan 19, 1997
    Action, Drama
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    WWE Action Zone!
    0 %|Jan 1, 1997
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    WWE Survivor Series 1996
    73 %|Nov 17, 1996
    Action, Drama
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    WWE SummerSlam 1996
    85 %|Aug 17, 1996
    Action, Drama
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    WWE In Your House 9: International Incident
    100 %|Jul 21, 1996
    Action, Drama
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    WWE King of the Ring 1996
    90 %|Jun 23, 1996
    Action, Drama
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    WWE WrestleMania XII
    71 %|Mar 31, 1996
    Action, Drama
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    WWE Royal Rumble 1996
    62 %|Jan 21, 1996
    Action, Drama
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    WWE In Your House 5: Seasons Beatings
    80 %|Dec 17, 1995
    Action, Drama
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    WWE Survivor Series 1995
    84 %|Nov 19, 1995
    Action, Drama
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    WWE In Your House 3: Triple Header
    100 %|Sep 24, 1995
    Action, Drama
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    WWE In Your House 2: Lumberjacks
    80 %|Jul 22, 1995
    Action, Drama
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    WWE Royal Rumble 1995
    72 %|Jan 22, 1995
    Action, Drama
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    WCW Starrcade 1993
    0 %|Dec 27, 1993
    Action
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    WCW Battle Bowl
    0 %|Nov 20, 1993
    Action
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    WCW Fall Brawl 1993
    0 %|Sep 19, 1993
    Action
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    WCW Beach Blast 1993
    0 %|Jul 18, 1993
    Action

    Series

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    WWE Heat
    82 %|Aug 2, 1998
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    WWE Heat
    50 %|Aug 2, 1998
    Action & Adventure, Drama
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    WWE Raw
    67 %|Jan 11, 1993
    Reality
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    WWE Raw
    67 %|Jan 11, 1993
    Reality
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    WWF Wrestling Challenge
    68 %|Sep 7, 1986
    Drama