Why Joe Hendry Feared He’d Cost Himself WrestleMania Spot
Joe Hendry was worried a social media post would cost him the opportunity of a lifetime.
In the weeks leading up to WrestleMania 41, Kevin Owens was forced to pull out of his planned match with Randy Orton due to a serious neck injury.
This set up a scramble online as fans tried to predict who would step up to face The Viper on the biggest stage of the year.
In the end, it was Joe Hendry who answered Orton’s open challenge, and although he was defeated in just three minutes, it was a moment the Scottish star will never forget.
During an interview with Chris Van Vliet, Hendry was asked whether he was expecting the call from WWE when Owens announced he was stepping away. He admitted that he wasn’t, before explaining how he feared a social media mishap might cost him his big moment.
“No, I honestly didn’t think that at the time. Sometimes, again, I know there was a lot of chatter about when Jey Uso said he needed a tag team partner.
The difficulty is sometimes, because you’re so busy, I’ll just see things on Twitter, or I’ll see a clip of the show, and I’ll just tweet the meme out there. Sometimes you go, hahaha, and you’re going, Oh God, this is caught on like wildfire. It’s getting an insane amount of likes to the point where it’s almost like people think it’s a spoiler, and I’m just kind of messing around.
That’s one thing I’ve learned that before the first time we spoke, the social media game is very much you can just throw mud at the wall and see what sticks. Whereas now there are actually very real consequences if I tweet even my face at the wrong time.
So for example, and again, I actually didn’t know the severity of Kevin Owens’ injury. I just saw the clip of the RKO to Aldis, and I kind of heard something about he might not be doing it. Then there’s that thing there. I thought, well, I’ll tweet at my face now. And actually, I took that down because when I understood the full context, because I was like this is not the appropriate time.
So there’s things that where you’ll see a little thing, and then there was the moment with Jey, where I tweeted it because I didn’t really think I would have been in serious consideration. And then you tweet and go, well, actually, I just ruined this for myself.”
Joe Hendry Heading To AAA
Meanwhile, away from WWE, it’s been announced that Joe Hendry will appear at the AAA Triplemania Regia event in Monterrey on June 15. The TNA World Champion will be joined by X-Division Champion Moose and TNA World Tag Team Champions Nic and Ryan Nemeth.
It had already been announced that WWE stars Berto and Angel will be involved.
The news came after it was reported that it’s a “lock” that Joe Hendry will sign with WWE when his TNA contract expires. The 37-year-old star is said to be well thought of by those within the sports entertainment giant, in large part due to his conduct while working with the company in recent months.
H/t to Fightful