Posted on 4/24/125 by Colin Vassallo
Speaking to Ariel Helwani on The Ariel Helwani Show, TNA
champion Joe Hendry described how his WrestleMania
appearance came together.
Acknowledging that he’s been evading this question every
time someone asked, Hendry said that he found out a week
before when he received a text from Triple H asking him if
he can talk.
“So I was in the airport and I got a text from Triple H
saying can you talk and you know I was at WWE World, I was
scheduled to be there to be signing things and I thought you
know, maybe something to the effect of you know they’ve got
the Slammies or it might be like, you know, doing a promo,”
Hendry said.
But the call went into a totally different direction.
“Triple H says, ‘Listen I’m sure you’re aware that Randy
needs an opponent,’ and yeah, that that threw me off
completely that I was in a in a state of shock,” he
continued.
He said that he’s proud of what they were able to accomplish
and the shot of the spin-around getting an RKO is now being
made into a trading card.
“I think it was a really fun moment for the fans, walking to
the ring in front of 60,000 people it was a huge moment for
me and what an honor to share the ring with Randy Orton,”
the champion said. “I just wrestled Randy Orton at
WrestleMania! What is going on it’s incredible!”
Asked who was the first one to find out after he hung up
with Triple H, Hendry said he couldn’t tell anyone and had
to sit on the secret for a whole week.