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Select Answers: Ava, NJPW and EVIL, Joe Hendry
🕑 Added 2025-08-24 12:00:09 +0000 UTCWelcome to Select Answers, a short feature that provides some of the answers to questions that were posed to Sean Ross Sapp in the most recent Fightful Weekly Q&A Podcast. The show drops every week on Fightful Select for subscribers.
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Does Ava still train to be a wrestler at the PC?
I have no idea if she still actively trains at the WWE Performance Center. She still does some in-ring training though, including some with Charlotte Flair. She's only 24, and has been with the PC for years, so if there's ever a time she wanted to give the in-ring another go, I'm sure WWE would be open to it. I don't know if the four months of matches we saw is a fair representation of what she will always be able to do.
Why does NJPW love EVIL so much? Seeing him in the final of the G1 breaks my brain.
I have no idea. He's had his flashes, but when they get set on someone, they usually stick with them. We'd reported that Tony Khan wasn't a fan of his work, and that's why he hadn't made any AEW or ROH appearances, but NJPW really like him and have for a long time. They had touted him as a major future star even when he was making ROH appearances over a decade ago. I really liked the G1 Finals despite the bad booking around it.
What are the chances of Joe Hendry moving to WWE when his TNA contract is up?
I think pretty good. Shawn Michaels has been a huge proponent of Hendry's for quite some time. I think if they could have bought Hendry out of his contract by now they probably would have. But now they get to use him whenever they want, and they've made a new thing for him to do to get over with where he pops up everywhere. WWE is in a position where they can just use TNA talent whenever they want, then sign them when they're free.
Comments
Joe Snurkowski
I thought the G1 final was booked perfectly. It showed that when there aren't any shenanigans, EVIL can be a damn great wrestler.
Mark McDonald
They dont care and they dont care about tna either. Theyre just another possible ave to try and hurt AEW with
Wyatt
"WWE is in a position where they can just use TNA talent whenever they want, then sign them when they're free." Someone should probably tell them how that worked out for ECW.
