{"id":317455,"date":"2026-04-12T11:38:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T06:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=317455"},"modified":"2026-04-12T11:38:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T06:08:38","slug":"mark-henry-sees-shiny-future-for-royce-keys-after-wwe-smackdown-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/12\/mark-henry-sees-shiny-future-for-royce-keys-after-wwe-smackdown-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Henry Sees Shiny Future For Royce Keys After WWE SmackDown Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_106\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>Royce Keys is ready to have a vibrant future ahead of him in WWE, in keeping with Mark Henry, following the powerhouse\u2019s TV in-ring debut this week.<\/p>\n<p>Through the latest episode of WWE SmackDown, Keys competed in his first WWE TV match, and the previous AEW TNT Champion earned a victory over Berto.<\/p>\n<p>During a recent edition of the \u201cBusted Open Radio\u201d podcast, Henry said that, while Keys needs to enhance some things, he has a vibrant future ahead. He said,<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cI enjoyed the Royce Keys segments. With the match, he stayed inside himself; he stayed powerful. He made some mistakes within the sense that, in case you\u2019re going to hit any individual with something, follow it up with something.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cDon\u2019t get caught up in the group, wanting to wave at your folks within the front row and all of that, since you kicked him within the a**. He hasn\u2019t had an issue with mentorship; There\u2019s a couple of guys that I do know are in his ear that I\u2019ve watched talk over with him. He\u2019s going to be an excellent one, I can see it already.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a backstage segment after the match, Solo Sikoa offered his help to Keys, a proposal Henry believes Keys shouldn\u2019t accept. He said,<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cI don\u2019t think that Royce Keys should focus his attention on joining a clique, I feel that he should attempt to be his own man at once. But while you\u2019re your individual man, you rub those that want you to be muscle for them the flawed way.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Keys made his WWE debut as a part of the 2026 Men\u2019s Royal Rumble match in January, mere weeks after ending his time as a part of AEW.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royce Keys is ready to have a vibrant future ahead of him in WWE, in keeping with Mark Henry, following the powerhouse\u2019s TV in-ring debut this week. Through the latest episode of WWE SmackDown, Keys competed in his first WWE TV match, and the previous AEW TNT Champion earned a victory over Berto. During a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":317456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[929,1806,994,14082,6104,4036,14030,3731,9262,6221],"class_list":["post-317455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-bright","tag-debut","tag-future","tag-henry","tag-keys","tag-mark","tag-royce","tag-sees","tag-smackdown","tag-wwe"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317455"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317458,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317455\/revisions\/317458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}