Luke Harper was recently interviewed by Rochester First. During the interview, he shared the story of how he ended up working for WWE. It also turns out that Harper had an unexpected day job while trying to live his dream as a pro-wrestler.
Here is the story from Harper:
“My wife told me she was pregnant and I lost my job, I was a librarian at Frederick Douglas Middle School and so I thought the world was over and they called and said, “Hey, can you come for a trial and I said, ‘No, I have a broken leg,’”
After this happened, six months went by and he was ready to quit the wrestling business:
“My wife was 8 months pregnant and I was just coming back from Japan and I said, ‘Honey, I’m done, this is it, I’m just going to go get another real job and we’ll make do here,’ and that’s the day (WWE called saying), ‘Hey, can you come for a tryout?’”
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Looks like fate made it happen.