“I Believe In Joe Hendry” — If you say his name he’ll appear.
Joe Hendry returned to IMPACT Wrestling in September with a series of vignettes airing on the show promoting his return. He made his in-ring return at IMPACT Wrestling presents: Bound For Glory Pay Per View as part of the Call Your Shot Gauntlet match.
Speaking to Tommy Dreamer on the House of Hardcore podcast, Hendry discussed his IMPACT return.
“There are times where I’m like, ‘this is going too well, what’s going on here? This is a giant rib.’ I remember Robert (Evans) saying to me in New York, ‘they’re going to be excited for you being here.’ At the start, it was weird, I was like, ‘Why don’t we do this for the promo? I can attack the guy and do this and that.’ Robert is like, ‘No, just let it happen.’ I trust Robert 100%. I trust Jimmy (Jacobs) 100%. I trust everyone in creative 100% with this character. This is the first time in my career where I’ve argued to do it a certain way and the IMPACT way was better. I had to go, ‘they were 100% right and I was wrong.’ That tells me that they know how I need to be presented. That’s why I love it. Me coming up with things that I’ve come up with, then creative coming up with things that they come up with, we’re coming together and the sum is greater and equal parts. That’s the most awesome thing about it. The last show, I was thinking, ‘What am I going to say here?’ Robert wasn’t sure either. When we both talked about it, we knew the answer within a few minutes,” he said.
He continued, “I feel I’m doing my dream job in my dream company. How many people in their life get to say that? I will never take it for granted. I knew I had to quit my shoot job that I was doing a couple of days before the second taping. I knew I had to double down and let the chips fall where they may. If I don’t give this 100%, I’ll regret it for the rest of my life. I have to give this 100%. When I walked out at Bound For Glory, I saw the signs and was like, ‘they’re a bit obvious, the plants in the crowd.’ They’re like, ‘No, they were fans.’ Robert said, ‘they’re going to be excited to see you.’ ‘No they won’t, they don’t know who I am.’ I was nervous going out second. By the second TV, I was like, ‘we might be onto something here.’ I’m having a lot of fun. It’s awesome. Maybe it’s just a UK thing, I’m just not used to being booked correctly.”
H/T Fightful’s Jeremy Lambert. Original article: HERE
Joe Hendry recently defeated 2022 Gut Check winner Jason Hotch, as well as Raj Singh. Joe Hendry has taken this company by storm and as mentioned above, he’s all In to reinvent himself and doing a great job at it.
Joe also competed against Brian Myers on the last set of TV tapings in Las Vegas, NV in a battle for the IMPACT Digital Media Title, to air on an upcoming episode of IMPACTonAXSTV.
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