Joe Hendry was advertised for a live concert on WWE Monday Night Raw on April 27, 2026, as the show from the Sames Auto Arena in Laredo, Texas, opened the next phase of the road to Backlash. Raw was set to begin at 8 p.m. ET with Roman Reigns and Jacob Fatu scheduled to reconvene after one week so Fatu could give his answer on whether he would challenge Reigns at Backlash.
The night also came with a first appearance from Becky Lynch since she won the WWE Women’s Intercontinental Championship at WrestleMania 42. For Raw, Hendry’s advertised segment was one part of a card built to keep the story moving while the company reset several top names after WrestleMania 42. The source material does not say whether Hendry actually performed, only that he was advertised for live in concert.
Before any of that, the show opened with a recap of the previous week’s angle centered on Roman Reigns’ effort to restart the Bloodline with the Usos and Jacob Fatu’s challenge. Reigns met with the Usos in a dark boardroom somewhere and said the past was the past, that he would leave it there because the Usos were blood and the only ones he could trust. Big Jim Uso said he understood where Reigns was coming from and agreed with Jacob wanting to upgrade his life, but not at Reigns’ expense. Main Event Jey Uso called Fatu unpredictable and unhinged, said they left him out for a reason, and warned that if he won he would get it all and be the shotcaller.
Reigns said he would chew on the issue and address it later that night, which kept the Bloodline question hanging over the rest of the broadcast. That matters because Raw was being used as the launch point for the build to Backlash, and Fatu’s answer was the hinge point for one of the company’s biggest current storylines. Hendry’s name on the rundown added a different kind of curiosity to the same episode, but the bigger weight still sat with what Reigns and Fatu would settle in the ring, or refuse to settle at all.
The tension on the show deepened when Seth Rollins entered and took the mic, saying there was a reason he lost to GUNTHER at WrestleMania and a reason Roman Reigns was walking around with his World Heavyweight Championship. Rollins said those reasons had one name, Bron Breakker. Breakker came out flanked by Paul Heyman, and Rollins said he had handed the world to Breakker on a silver platter only to have everything taken away in return. He blamed Breakker for forcing him to forfeit the world title, for missing the WrestleMania main event and for not getting his hand raised at WrestleMania this year. The lineup made Raw feel less like a standalone episode and more like a clearinghouse for unfinished business, with Hendry advertised for entertainment, Reigns and Fatu tied to Backlash, and Rollins already pointing back to the damage he says Breakker caused.
By the end of the setup, the message was plain: Raw was not waiting for Backlash to start the build, it was already in it, and the answers that mattered most were the ones Reigns and Fatu were expected to provide later in the night.
