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Joe Hendry RAW interview

When the question lands on whether character wrestlers get hammered harder for their in-ring skills than anyone else, Joe Hendry admits that's just the reality you face when you're built as a character. He says he finds real comfort in knowing that the only way to actually get better at wrestling is by stepping into the ring with people who are superior to you and finding something valuable to learn from them every single time. It's not just about surviving; it's about being so fortunate throughout his entire career to have had the chance to work alongside various opponents who taught him things in real time as they happened. That access has allowed him to see how far he has come in the ring since his stuff started blowing up a couple of years ago, marking a significant shift in his trajectory. The growth isn't even limited to long stretches; he feels like he has come so far in just a couple of months that he finds himself wondering where exactly he is going to be by January this year and then looking further ahead to where he will be in two years' time, which he finds genuinely exciting to think about. When it comes to handling all the negativity that comes with the territory, he points to a specific strategy: block out all the noise. He references advice attributed to the Miz that suggests you should literally block out everything else to stay focused. For Hendry, the method behind blocking out all the noise is a mental shift where criticism feels like an attack on who he was yesterday, a version of himself that he considers already dead and gone. This perspective allows him to dismiss past critiques because that person no longer exists.

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Joe Hendry RAW interview

When the question lands on whether character wrestlers get hammered harder for their in-ring skills than anyone else, Joe Hendry admits that's just the reality you face when you're built as a character. He says he finds real comfort in knowing that the only way to actually get better at wrestling is by stepping into the ring with people who are superior to you and finding something valuable to learn from them every single time. It's not just about surviving; it's about being so fortunate throughout his entire career to have had the chance to work alongside various opponents who taught him things in real time as they happened. That access has allowed him to see how far he has come in the ring since his stuff started blowing up a couple of years ago, marking a significant shift in his trajectory. The growth isn't even limited to long stretches; he feels like he has come so far in just a couple of months that he finds himself wondering where exactly he is going to be by January this year and then looking further ahead to where he will be in two years' time, which he finds genuinely exciting to think about. When it comes to handling all the negativity that comes with the territory, he points to a specific strategy: block out all the noise. He references advice attributed to the Miz that suggests you should literally block out everything else to stay focused. For Hendry, the method behind blocking out all the noise is a mental shift where criticism feels like an attack on who he was yesterday, a version of himself that he considers already dead and gone. This perspective allows him to dismiss past critiques because that person no longer exists.

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