Hello friends, we're back again. It's Fightful, and I am Joel Pearl. I'm here with the TNA World Heavyweight Champion, the one, the only Joe Hendry joins me now. How you doing?

Doing very well. Thank you for having me. We're here live in Las Vegas, ahead of TNA on Breakable. It's happening on Thursday night. You can catch it on TNA Plus.

Looking forward to a big show.

Las Vegas is a very special place for you.

You've done a lot of work here.

Absolutely.

This is where I captured my first championship in TNA wrestling.

So to be back here as the TNA world champion, it's a great feeling.

Also a very popular concert that you once had at the Palms Theatre. Very true. That,

you know, that was a big week in my career. That was the same week the song came out. So that and the concert happening in the same week was, yeah, it was a very special time.

Andrew Francis has spent a lot of time taking credit for your success.

I've seen to respond to a little bit of it, but when you won the world title, you don't

know this because you weren't privy to the conversation I had with him, but he basically

said, I need Joe Hendry to win the world title so I can be the first challenger.

What was your, what's your reaction to that?

Because clearly he wasn't the first challenger, but he was one of the first people to step

to you.

So I just had this, believe or not, I had this conversation today.

There's not, you know, as much history as there is between myself and AJ Francis, I have to say,

I, there aren't many people who I think would be a better challenger than AJ Francis.

Wherever you want to say about AJ, look, we could go on all day about his shortcomings. We don't have enough time for your podcast, unfortunately. But what I will say is that aside, me and him facing each other in the ring is big business. Absolutely. Well, big business is also coming at Unbreakable. You're going to be teaming up with Masha Slamovic, take on Frankie Kazarian and Tess Blanchard. It's not the first time that you've worked with Masha Slamovich in a tag format in TNA. This is actually, I think, the third time you've done it. First time was the big multi-champions challenge and then you've done it again. Now we're doing it one more time. How's the feeling working with Masha, someone who kind of has had a parallel path to you in terms of your T&A runs,

where you've both kind of has had a parallel path to you in terms of your TNA

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