Justin Roberts was recently interviewed by ‘Cult of Whatever’. This was to promote his book ‘Best Seat in the House: Your Backstage Pass through My WWE Journey’.
Roberts spoke on a wide variety of topics about his WWE career. He worked in WWE as a ring announcer from 2002 until he was released from the company in 2014.
Roberts shared some of the hardest parts of being a WWE ring announcer during the interview. Here is what he said:
“The most nerve-racking thing was that I wasn’t allowed any note cards with the wrestlers towns and weights etc and I didn’t have an earpiece so no one was able to feed me any of the information, so a lot of the time I didn’t know what to say or when I was supposed to speak. When I was there they were really long announcements where not only did you introduce the wrestlers but introduced the match stipulations, the rules of the match, if the winner of the match would get a title shot at so and so PPV. Then the match could be a four-way and I had to remember all of that information off the top of my head”
He also says he often received scripts for the show late and had to memorize it quickly:
“When WWE used to have the regular guest hosts they were long introductions and a lot of the time you didn’t get the script until the show went on the air so I didn’t have much time to memorise that. Then you take a show like WrestleMania and in 2011 at WrestleMania XXVII when I was the sole announcer for the whole show there was so much to remember but that was an awesome experience”
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