As noted before, Joe Hendry is the new NXT Champion. The Scottish star captured the vacant title on Tuesday’s episode of WWE NXT, outlasting six other competitors in a ladder match. Hendry defeated Ricky Saints, Shiloh Hill, Sean Legacy, Dion Lennox, Keanu Carver, and EVOLVE Men’s Champion Jackson Drake to claim his first NXT Championship.
A recent episode of the Busted Open After Dark podcast featured Hendry as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Hendry’s thoughts about his NXT Championship victory.
“I’m feeling so many different emotions. I have so much to say, and I will do my best to get it out here coherently, but… in my life, we have different goals, different challenges and this particular championship means so much to me. This championship represents what the last six, eight months here full-time at the Performance Center has been for me. I made the choice to come here to WWE and I made the choice to come and train at NXT. I get in the ring every day with those top-level, first-class athletes and I knew I had to push my cardio and my conditioning to a new level and I knew I just had to keep acquiring new skills and there were days when it was just so tough and I just felt like I was just pushing things forward inch by inch and there were moments where I was frustrated, I wanted to progress and then, things just started to click, and I started to learn more and more and more and when you’re around this environment at the P.C. every day, you can’t help but get better, and that was my only goal, was just to get as good as I could possibly be at professional wrestling because the last couple of years was a marketing exercise for me, right? It was to tell the world who Joe Hendry is and now, the journey was for me to step up to a championship-caliber athlete that can go to the very top of this business and in order to do that, I had to truly humble myself and I’ve been training every day, giving absolutely everything, and you know, to have that goal realized and actualized in this championship title that’s been held by some of the most prestigious names in the business. I’m so honored and privileged to represent this brand.”h/t: Fightful.com
