1. Joe Hendry was born on 1 May 1988 and is a Scottish professional wrestler and musician.
53 Facts About Joe Hendry
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Joe Hendry is signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, while making appearances for partner promotion WWE on its NXT brand.
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Joe Hendry first appeared in Impact Wrestling in 2018 before returning to the company in September 2022.
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Joe Hendry first made some brief non-wrestling appearances for WWE in 2014 before returning in 2024 on NXT through a working partnership between TNA and WWE.
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In 2025, Joe Hendry became the first TNA World Champion to enter the Royal Rumble and have a match at WrestleMania.
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Joe Hendry represented Great Britain internationally in freestyle wrestling at the Commonwealth Wrestling Championship in 2017, and subsequently earned a position on the freestyle wrestling team for Scotland at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
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Joe Hendry initially trained to become a professional wrestler with Damian Mackle, Mikey Whiplash, Robbie Brookside, and Marty Jones at the Source Wrestling School.
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In 2013, Hendry began regularly appearing for Insane Championship Wrestling, and was first introduced as a member of James R Kennedy's stable, the Kennedy Administration.
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Joe Hendry entered into a rivalry with Big Damo, before feuding with fellow Kennedy Administration member Kenny Williams.
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Williams won the ICW Zero-G Championship during this time, and Joe Hendry faced him several times for the title but was unable to win it.
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On 6 April 2015, Joe Hendry unsuccessfully challenged Drew Galloway for the ICW World Heavyweight Championship at Pro Wrestling Ulster event in which the EVOLVE and DGUSA Open the Freedom Gate titles were on the line.
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Joe Hendry later formed tag team the Local Fire with Davey Boy.
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On 27 July 2019, Joe Hendry was forced to leave ICW after losing to Leyton Buzzard in a singles match at Night 1 of Shug's Hoose Party 6.
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Joe Hendry debuted for Discovery Wrestling in 2014, teaming with Marty Scurll to defeat Cryme Tyme Appearing sporadically he would face the likes of Grado, The Young Bucks, Damien O'Connor, Tommy Dreamer before earning a shot at Lewis Girvan's Y Division Championship, where he was unsuccessful.
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Joe Hendry earned his way back into title contention with victories over Dalton Castle, Kenny Williams, Timothy Thatcher and former champion Girvan.
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On 3 June 2023, Joe Hendry returned to Discovery Wrestling to successfully defend his Impact Digital Media Championship against Jack Morris.
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Joe Hendry made his debut for New Generation Wrestling in 2015, losing a match to Nathan Cruz before forming Team Scotland with fellow ICW wrestlers Davey Blaze, Lionheart and Kid Fite.
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Joe Hendry faced Conners two times for the WCPW Title, but was defeated twice.
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At the Mexican qualifier for the WCPW Pro Wrestling World Cup, Joe Hendry defeated Martin Kirby by referee stoppage, becoming the WCPW Champion.
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On 2 October 2017, at WCPW Refuse to Lose '17, Joe Hendry defended his championship against Will Ospreay.
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In 2016, Joe Hendry made a few appearances for the American promotion Ring of Honor during the promotion's tour of the United Kingdom titled Reach for the Sky.
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Between 10 and 12 May 2018, Joe Hendry was part of the television tapings for the reboot of World of Sport Wrestling.
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Joe Hendry was involved in title challenges for the WOS Championship.
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Executive Stu Bennett gave him a title shot soon afterwards, but Joe Hendry was defeated by Rampage.
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From January to February 2019, Joe Hendry was part of the World of Sport Wrestling UK tour, where he was largely used in tag matches.
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Joe Hendry was successful in all of them, teaming with BT Gunn four times and Grado once.
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On 25 May 2018, Impact Wrestling announced through Twitter that Joe Hendry would be part of the 1 and 2 June television tapings for the promotion from Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
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Katarina questioned Grado over why he could not beat Drake on his own, because Joe Hendry did, and Joe Hendry told Grado that he would beat Drake again to end the feud.
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Joe Hendry then called her the embarrassment in the situation, not Grado, so Katarina slapped him and walked away.
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On 15 February 2019, Joe Hendry thanked Impact Wrestling for giving him a platform to appear on their program, but announced that he was no longer signed to appear for the company.
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On 8 August 2019, it was announced that Joe Hendry was a free agent no longer, and had now signed a contract with ROH.
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Joe Hendry subsequently formed a tag team with Castle while competing in singles matches at the same time.
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Joe Hendry continued to team with Castle throughout the fall of 2019 and early 2020, competing in various matches, before ROH went on hiatus due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.
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Joe Hendry returned to ROH on 12 January 2021 by participating in an eight-man tag team match, which his team won.
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At Rebellion, Joe Hendry teamed with Dirty Dango and Santino Marella to defeat The Design in a handicap match, after Callihan turned on Design by attacking Deaner.
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Joe Hendry won by disqualification after Dango hit a low blow right in front of the referee.
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Joe Hendry told Uemura to grab briefcase number 4, which contained the pink slip, and Uemura was fired from Impact Wrestling.
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Hendry went viral on social media with his theme tune, "I Believe In Joe Hendry", being released as a single.
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Joe Hendry protested over the loss and demanded a rematch but Director of Authority Santino Marella told him that he had to work his way up the card to earn another title shot.
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At Turning Point, Joe Hendry won a six-way Turkey Bowl match by pinning Brian Myers, forcing him to wear the turkey suit.
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At Genesis, Joe Hendry defeated Nemeth to become the new TNA World Champion.
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In 2014, Joe Hendry appeared as a Russian diplomat on the 10 November episode of Raw alongside Rusev and Lana.
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Joe Hendry appeared multiple times as one of Adam Rose's Rosebuds.
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On 18 June 2024, Joe Hendry made his WWE in-ring debut on NXT as one of TNA's representatives in a 25-man battle royal to determine the number one contender for the NXT Championship, where he was immediately eliminated by Frankie Kazarian.
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Gallus, who had taken issue with Hendry's NXT appearances, attacked Hendry halfway through his concert and a match between Hendry and Joe Coffey was made official for the following week where Hendry emerged victorious.
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On 1 February 2025, Joe Hendry made his Royal Rumble debut, entering as the 15th entrant where he was eliminated by Roman Reigns.
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Joe Hendry made his surprise WrestleMania debut answering Randy Orton's open challenge at Night 2 of WrestleMania 41 after his original opponent Kevin Owens was unable to compete due to a legitimate neck injury.
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On 22 April 2025, Joe Hendry returned to NXT calling out Trick Williams before throwing him out the ring with the help of NXT Champion Oba Femi.
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Joe Hendry has been a musician for 10 years, and was the lead singer for a band named Lost in Audio, and has incorporated his prior career into his professional wrestling work.
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Joe Hendry writes and performs his own entrance music and videos.
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Joe Hendry went out of competition in the Round of 16, losing to Australia's Nicolaas Verreynne.
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Joe Hendry has a Master's degree in business and marketing from Heriot-Watt University.
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Joe Hendry is the nephew of politician Drew Hendry, the former SNP MP for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey, and a former Highland Council leader.