NXT Champion Joe Hendry | Complex Graps Wrestling Podcast | Episode 5
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John Cena WrestleMania role
The goat, the greatest of all time, John Cena is hosting WrestleMania this year. He is not wrestling. They made it very clear that he is not competing. He has indeed wrestled his last match.
Joe Hendry vs. Randy Orton
I've never spoke about this before. It's interesting you ask that. One day, I'd obviously followed him on Twitter for years. He followed me on social media when my act started to get hot. And then I just said, you know, something to the effect of thanks for following me. Hope we get to work together someday in the future. And the match actually happened.
United States Championship
We got a new United States champion, guys. Sammy Zayn and Trick Williams costed Carmelo Hayes the match.
Randy Orton mystery caller
The latest rumor now from I think it was either Alvarez or Meltzer... saying that it could be The Rock which it would fit the whole wrestling family thing.
NXT Stand and Deliver
I've wrestled in front of three people. I've wrestled Randy Orton at WrestleMania. So here's the thing. A lot of people are asking me about, you know, are you ready for this or whatever? I'm asking the other guys, are they ready for the spotlight?
Trick Williams vs. Carmelo Hayes
Trick and Mellow is a story you could tell for years, for decades, even if you want. And they could get as opposed to having it just be have a little bit of a few weeks build before WrestleMania and then it happens. I think would be maybe a bit of a waste of the chemistry that these two have.
Drew McIntyre vs. Jacob Fatu
Nick Aldis came out and said enough. We are making this a match but since you two are gonna just absolutely destroy each other it's gonna be a street fight.
Joe Hendry career philosophy
I remember when my stuff really started to blow up... I was in a show in Newcastle, England in front of 200 people. I did a parody video of Scotty 2 Hotty and the crowd goes nuts. I remember thinking, you know what? I'm paying my bills. I got a pretty cool job. And I was like, if it never gets bigger than this, I'm gonna give those 200 fans the best show they've ever seen.
NXT Championship
I 100% believe in my heart the reason that I'm NXT champion is because I chose to move to Orlando. I chose to show up at the performance center every day... I'm still a part of the classes. That's something I want to do because I wanted to learn the WWE system.
WrestleMania entrance ideas
I really need to think about that. That's tough, because, again, thinking about that whole, you know, what can you give to entertain the audience? Selfishly, Weezer are my favorite band. So, you know, I'd love Weezer to sing 'I Believe in Joe Hendry' as I walked out to the ring.
