To the tune of Creed's "Higher," Joe Hendry asked for AJ Francis to please get fired during a concert on TNA iMPACT! in May 2024.
The concert came less than two months after The Rock performed his concert in the lead up to WrestleMania.
"I did this concert, I remember TNA management came to me and said, 'We want you to do this concert.' I said, 'Guys, The Rock just did one. He just did one. He's The Rock.' How can I do something to make it totally different? They said to me, 'We're not going to make you do it, if you're saying you don't want to do it, then you don't have to do it, but we think that you can.' We went back and forth. We ended up coming up with an idea that we would do a Creed song and instead of 'Can you take me higher,' we would say, 'Can you please get fired,' to AJ Francis. That was funny enough and different enough that we could do it. We did this concert and it went so well. We're in this iconic music venue in Vegas so it looked great, the audience was laughing along. We had the perfect segment at the same time [my theme] was released and was charting. Those two things together collided and that's when it started to take off," Hendry recalled while speaking to Ariel Helwani on the Ariel Helwani Show.
Hendry went to new heights in 2024, ascending to the main event scene and eventually winning the TNA World Title at TNA Genesis 2025.
Elsewhere during the interview, Hendry named WWE main roster talent he would like yo face. You can find his answers by clicking here.
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