Joe Hendry intends to meet John Cena’s crazy challenge for a game with his incredible self -confidence

Joe Hendry has a special ability to realize the impossible. It is how such a wide strip of believers is cultivated. Possibly, the world champion of TNA received a stronger ovation than any wwe superstar in the wwe 2025 Rumble Rumble. He has now planted the seeds for something even more ambitious: a match with John Cena.

“John presented the challenge. He said it depends on me to make it come true. I accept that challenge,” Hendry told CBS Sports. “I need to get to the occasion to make one of the most convincing confrontations in professional struggle. John said that if I can generate the buzz to the point where the parties that need to want that game to happen, it will be there for him.”

Hendry and Cena had a wide conversation in the rumble in Indianapolis. According to Hendry, Cena shared words of wisdom and conditionally accepted his request for a coincidence between them. The load falls to Hendry to make the party of undeniable interest of fans. That is a tremendous task. Dinner is possibly the best superstar of the wwe of all time and a Hollywood star in good faith. Hendry, despite his remarkable ascent and status as a coveted world champion of TNA, has a mountain to climb as an artist no wwe.

If the dinner challenge was not bold enough, it also comes with a time limit. The 16 times world champion is currently in his Farewell Tour. Dinner will retire at the end of 2025 and everyone wants a role in their last year in the ring.

“We don’t have much time left,” said Hendry. “That is the confrontation I am looking for. It is a great goal for me this year and in my career. John Cena was the first fighter I talked to when I was 15 years old. The confrontation means a lot to me.”

Dinner vs. Hendry is more than career achievements. It is a story 20 years in process. Dinner was Hendry’s favorite professional fighter. It is Cena who caused Hendry’s interest in business. Naturally, Hendry, 15, was sad when he could not attend a local encounter with his hero. Until he received the phone call from his life. Hendry’s friend, who met him without him, told Cena about his situation. Cena agreed to call Hendry, holding a tail of fans for 10 minutes to talk to him. That teenager would be impressed to think that a game with dinner would be on the table.

“In a strange way, it was a similar situation. It gave me time when I didn’t need when I was 15 years old. I had time when I didn’t need more [Royal Rumble] weekend, “said Hendry.” It was a very complete circle moment for me.

“But, honestly, I think he would be surprised and incredibly proud. Because that 15 -year -old boy really did not believe he was able to be much. I think I have shown it that we will do something.”

Learning that Hendry once thought so little about himself is discordant. The lack of self -confidence is the antithesis of your brand. His musical theme is titled “I Believe in Joe Hendry”, a song that went viral on social networks and reached its maximum point at number 4 in the great official lists of the 40 best stops in the United Kingdom. But like Hendry, fans encouraged to believe in him, he has also learned to believe in himself.

Hendry vividly remembers the day he broke his father’s heart. Hendry’s father had encouraged his son to pursue a black belt in judo, but Hendry said people like him were not cut for such achievements. Poetically, Hendry was endowed with impossible self -confidence on the day he finally received that honor.

“I am only a normal guy who does the best thing that can do this. I think people identify with that,” said Hendry. “I did not enter sports or academics with a lot of talent. I have had to work very hard to have talent.

“It didn’t seem that much naturally reached me at a high level.”

Royal Rumble is an example of Hendry’s amber. Hendry’s strident surprise in Royal Rumble developed compared to approximately 70,000 fans. Hendry describes him as “an unfathomable amount of people.” And although the agreement joined very close to the date, Hendry had reserved several appearances in Indianapolis just in case, Hendry made it exist a year earlier.

“I entered my students after the last rumble when Jordynne [Grace] appeared. I told them: ‘Mark my words, I will be in the next rumble.’ And I was, “said Hendry.” I told people that I would win this [TNA] Championship and I did. I have delivered and executed in every thing I said I was going. “

wwe and TNA formally announced A several years association this year After working together in 2024. But seeing the world championship of TNA in a great payment by vision of the wwe is still incredible. Hendry is proud to be in this position, seeing it as an opportunity to give back the company that has invested so much in it.

“I remember seeing Aj Styles from TNA Wrestling and enter the Royal Rumble,” said Hendry. “I was thinking, ‘Woah, how to have an impact!’ Planned pun, if you wish.

“TNA really raised me and gave me the development I needed to be the professional fighter who knew it could be. Now it is my turn to return the favor and raise this championship, which is already a greatly prestigious championship … I want to generate businesses for TNA and contribute so that other people can obtain the development they obtained.

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How can Hendry acquire enough interest to make the game come true? He is doing it every day. He is pressing for it on social networks, in interviews and gathering his wide base of Internet fans around a moment as powerful as the dream that feeds him.

“I think they gave me the wonderful opportunity to be in the Royal Rumble because it was great for fans, it was great for TNA and I hope I have contributed something to the wwe in the process,” said Hendry. “I think the same logic should be applied to the John Cena party.

“If I can generate enough buzzing where I can contribute, then it is a possibility. But it is a lot to me. To be clear, just like the rumble, people wondered about the rumble for more than a year before it happened. I did it I don’t know until shortly before, but I planned as if it were to happen.

The world champion of TNA faced Cena, the protagonist of the wwe from 2005 to 2015, once he was reserved for fantasy pairing and video games. In 2025, it is unlikely but not impossible. There may not be a better helpless to put their chips in 2025. There is a reason why many people believe in Joe Hendry.

“I trust my instinct because that’s all you have in this game,” said Hendry. “Trusting my instinct has taken me to an incredible place at this time. I trust my instinct that going to this John Cena’s game is right.”