Joe Hendry answers Randy Orton's open WrestleMania 41 challenge; quickly learns about fabled RKO

LAS VEGAS – TNA satellite champion Joe Hendry answered Randy Orton’s unfastened situation astatine WrestleMania 41 connected Sunday nighttime successful Las Vegas.

Orton was near without an hostile aft Kevin Owens needed to measurement distant from his in-ring WWE vocation owed to a terrible cervix injury. He demanded a lucifer astatine the 20th WrestleMania quality of his career.

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Joe Hendry makes his entranceway during WrestleMania 41 Sunday astatine Allegiant Stadium connected April 20, 2025 successful Las Vegas, Nevada. (Craig Melvin/WWE via Getty Images))

Say his sanction and helium appeared; Hendry came retired to a immense popular from the crowd. But the champion soon learned wherefore Orton was a legend. Hendry enactment up a bully combat with the assemblage down him but it was acold from enough.

Orton made speedy enactment of Hendry, hitting him with an RKO arsenic Hendry turned toward the camera flashing a smile.

Orton crossed different sanction connected his database of competitors who came astir and recovered out. 

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Randy Orton (R) successful enactment against Joe Hendry during WrestleMania 41 astatine Allegiant Stadium connected April 20, 2025 successful Las Vegas, Nevada.  (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

It was a chill infinitesimal for Hendry, who built a monolithic pursuing astatine TNA. He made a fewer appearances astatine NXT earlier yet becoming the apical feline astatine TNA. He’s 1 of the superstars who person thrived owed to TNA and WWE’s partnership.

But earlier Hendry could instrumentality successful the moment, Orton deed him with different RKO.

Randy Orton (R) celebrates aft defeating Joe Hendry during WrestleMania 41 astatine Allegiant Stadium connected April 20, 2025 successful Las Vegas, Nevada.  (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

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Orton continues his reign of dominance and present volition look toward the adjacent twelvemonth and what it could be. Will different rubric tally beryllium successful enactment for 1 of the past legends remaining connected the main roster?

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