Former AEW Women’s World Champion and WWE Superstar Saraya sparked a new trend on social media by sharing her very first wrestling promo photo and encouraging others to do the same. Captioning the post, she wrote, “Okay wrestlers. Please share your first wrestling promo pic. I’ll go first 😂”
The trend quickly caught on, with several WWE Superstars joining in. Piper Niven, Rhea Ripley, and Natalya all posted their own early promo pictures, and Indi Hartwell also jumped in with a throwback of her own.
You can check out some of the posts below:
Okay wrestlers. Please share your first wrestling promo pic. I’ll go first 😂 pic.twitter.com/oJfIa62bhY
— SARAYA (@Saraya) May 14, 2025
After a training seminar and before eyebrow pencils 🤣
👼🏼 https://t.co/vPcUL716lm pic.twitter.com/1xHu949UxL— Slaygent P (@PiperNivenWWE) May 14, 2025
Stampede Wrestling 1999, 4 years in https://t.co/Sly1WfGkiL pic.twitter.com/0tLXUSu3y0
— TJ Wilson (@TJWilson) May 15, 2025
hehe thankful for……. good lighting, lashes and a great anti aging moisturizer….. 😂 https://t.co/sh7PSESj9Z pic.twitter.com/Ws7SqfSOnK
— Nattie (@NatbyNature) May 14, 2025
https://t.co/LVrsPHIX6G pic.twitter.com/OtROF3bd7m
— Indi Wrestling (@indi_hartwell) May 14, 2025
😅 https://t.co/VVHSnKas31 pic.twitter.com/cSrkREZpI5
— RheaRipley_WWE (@RheaRipley_WWE) May 14, 2025
During a recent appearance on the “Insight With Chris Van Vliet” podcast, TNA World Champion Joe Hendry commented on being the surprise replacement for Kevin Owens against Randy Orton at WrestleMania 41, whether he expected it to happen, and more.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On not expecting to replace Kevin Owens at WrestleMania 41: “No, I honestly didn’t think that at the time. Sometimes, again, I know there was a lot of chatter about when Jey Uso said he needed a tag team partner. The difficulty is sometimes, because you’re so busy, I’ll just see things on Twitter, or I’ll see a clip of the show, and I’ll just tweet the meme out there. Sometimes you go, hahaha, and you’re going, Oh God, this is caught on like wildfire. It’s getting an insane amount of likes to the point where it’s almost like people think it’s a spoiler, and I’m just kind of messing around.”
On the social media game: “That’s one thing I’ve learned that before the first time we spoke, the social media game is very much you can just throw mud at the wall and see what sticks. Whereas now there are actually very real consequences if I tweet even my face at the wrong time. So for example, and again, I actually didn’t know the severity of Kevin Owens’ injury. I just saw the clip of the RKO to Aldis, and I kind of heard something about he might not be doing it. Then there’s that thing there. I thought, well, I’ll tweet at my face now. And actually, I took that down because when I understood the full context, because I was like this is not the appropriate time. So there’s things that where you’ll see a little thing, and then there was the moment with Jey, where I tweeted it because I didn’t really think I would have been in serious consideration. And then you tweet and go, well, actually, I just ruined this for myself.”
On sometimes tweeting with emotion and not with logic: “Yes. Well, the scariest one, if you ever tweet with emotion and not with logic, that’s when these problems happen. I don’t know why. I was just having a day when a fan said, ‘You know what, Joe Hendry’s really falling off.’ For some reason, I just thought, you know what? And I was kind of joking at this point. I had no idea that I was going to be selected to go into the Rumble, and I tweeted out, ‘Let’s see how well this tweet ages in about four months.’”
On waiting between three to five months: “I was like, it’s between three and five months. So I’ll just say that. Hahaha. This tweet goes crazy. And there was a moment again I had this conversation with friends and family where I said to myself, if I’m not in the Rumble because of this, I need to just accept that I made a mistake, and I need to own it. There was a moment where I thought to myself, I may have cost myself an opportunity.”
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