Joe Hendry Speaks About Having Creative Freedom In RING OF HONOR

Last year, former Impact Wrestling star Joe Hendry officially joined the Ring of Honor roster full time.

Since the 31-year-old joined the independent promotion, the former British Wrestling Revolution Heavyweight Champion has been prominently featured on the company’s television alongside Dalton Castle. The oddball pairing of Castle and Hendry has made for some entertaining television, and it comes down to officials giving the pairing some creative freedom (Transcript courtesy of POST Wrestling):

“Well I think the parodies are the things that get the most response but in terms of the entrance music, the cool entrance music, this is by far the best one [Wave Your Hands], and I just kind of deconstructed it and I really thought, ‘At what point am I gonna be doing this thing? At what point am I gonna be standing on the stage? When am I gonna be in the ring? When am I gonna wave my hands?’ And I was like — I really took it back to basics and I was like, ‘What do I want the audience to do?

I want them to interact’ so I put the couple of claps and then I was like, ‘Then I want them to wave their hands, then I wanna be standing this way’ so I really, really enjoy the creative process of reverse engineering an entrance and again, being in Ring of Honor, they gave me the creative freedom to do that, and that’s the amazing thing about working for this company is we didn’t have to go through loads of different channels or red tape and all that.

They were just like, ‘Do you want us to do your music or do you got this?’ And I was like, ‘I got this’ and they were like, ‘Cool. Get it to us by this date’ and that was it. They just trusted me to do my thing and I really respected that and I feel very respected working here as a talent. I feel respected as an individual and it’s a great place to work. I can’t speak highly enough about it. When people ask me about it, I always tell them, ‘It’s what I thought the dream would be.’”

Check out the full interview where Hendry talks about staying in contact with Kurt Angle, Drew McIntyre winning the WWE Championship, and so much more regarding his wrestling career.