One of the biggest surprises of Night Two of WrestleMania 41 was the WrestleMania debut of TNA World Heavyweight Champion Joe Hendry. He answered The Viper Randy Orton’s Open Challenge. While a majority of fans were excited to see The Prestigious One, one wrestling veteran seems to have been disappointed with the reveal. It is none other than WWE Hall of Famer Jeff Jarrett.
While speaking on the My World podcast, Jeff Jarrett mentioned that he felt let down when it was Joe Hendry who answered the challenge. Double J also understood that it was monumental for The Prestigious One. Jarrett also shared that it was indeed historical for the TNA World Title to be featured on the grandest stage of them all. But he feels that at the end of the day it doesn’t matter as much when you look at the grand scheme.
“A massive, massive letdown … Randy’s got a lot of history, not just in WWE but with that event, so I just kind of feel that as it relates to Randy, did a three minute win help him at all? No. Like none. For Hendry, are you kidding me? I’m sure a bucket list item, he don’t care at all and I guess you could say seeing a TNA World Champion at Mania, that was kind of interesting, the wins and losses, the positioning, I don’t read into that at all … Randy was still getting his hand raised so in the grand scheme of things, what did it really matter? I was just really very let down on Randy’s part because I just think there could have been so much more put into that,” Jeff Jarrett said. [H/T Wrestling Inc.]
Hendry has also been frequently featured on NXT Television.
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