WWE NXT Champion Joe Hendry Opens Up On Connection With Fans

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WWE NXT Champion Joe Hendry has opened up on the connection he has with the fans following his signing with the company.

After a number of appearances in the promotion through the ongoing partnership with TNA, Joe Hendry officially signed with WWE back in October, and now reigns as the NXT Champion.

Hendry’s popularity has blown up over the past few years, and he has now opened up on the connection he has with the fans.

Speaking to TMZ’s Inside The Ring, he said:

“What’s always been great for me, the relationship I’ve built with the fans. There was a time recently when I was out on SmackDown, it was my SmackDown debut, and I was going out there, and that was a lot.

“I had just done a song for NXT that week, and I was doing a song for SmackDown as well, and there’s a pressure to not forget the words. I was doing a version of Jingle Bells, and it’s pretty fast. Usually my parody songs are ‘you make a joke, audience reaction, then the next joke, audience reaction’, so you have time to think. Whereas Jingle Bells is, you know it’s fast. The pressure’s there, and I’m like this is my SmackDown debut, I must deliver.

“So I’m going out there with the pressure, I’m standing on the ring, and I just saw, there was a fan in the audience who pointed at me and said ‘yay, it’s Joe Hendry!’ and it started to spread, and the audience having that warm reception for me that just took away any nerves or self doubts or anything like that.

“So the relationship I have with the fans is they’re with me on this journey, that’s what’s special about it, it feels like we’re doing it together. It’s this really real connection that has a real-life outcome, when they get behind me it makes my performances better, so I’m super thankful for the connection we’ve built.

“But really, it’s the song. The song’s the thing that kicked it off.”

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