The longtime ring veteran and son of 'Mr. Perfect' joins the show to discuss life now post-WWE
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To fans nationally it happened around 2010 when he joined the WWE “Nexus” stable. It was the hottest heel stable at the time in the company, filled with “bad guys” looking to dethrone the veteran WWE heroes. “So, when I was younger, my father said ‘I don’t want you to do this. I want you to find something else,' but as I got older like high school age, he started working with Randy Orton,” said Hennig. “Was like ‘Hey are you still interested?’ And I said yes, and I was like really starting to get into it.”
But Joe’s journey to training hit a tragic roadblock in February 2003 when Curt Hennig passed away. Eventually, it was Rheingans who sought him out. “First of all, I would do anything it took to get rid of Michael McGillicutty,” he said. “Curtis Axel was something me and Paul Heyman kind of played with. We wanted to be called Curtis Mayhem, not Curtis Axel. Vince went with Curtis Axel.”When Hennig finally started with Nexus, he did it alongside another revered wrestler, the late Wyndham Rotunda, who eventually became
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