WWE Superstar Luke Harper joined Chris Jerricho for the 197th episode of his famous "Talk is Jerricho" podcast. He talked about many things including his life before WWE and more:
Harper said that he already had the beard before joining WWE:
"I had it already and I liken it to being fat: it's not difficult to do- you just kind of give up on life. This is what happens! And it just happens to help me with my career now! And my wife doesn't mind it. It's a win-win."
Harper almost gave up on his dream of becoming a WWE superstar after he reached the age of 31 while most of the WWE stars are signed at their early twenties:
"Two days after I had my child in January [2011], [I] got called by Johnny Ace [former WWE Senior Vice President of TalentOperations,John Laurinaitis]. And the other best part about that is that I missed his call because I was in the hospital, so he left a message, his [telephone] number cuts out." Harper continued, "so [I] instantly called Claudio Castagnoli [WWE'sCesaro] to [say], 'please tell me you have Johnny Ace's number' and he said, 'yeah, here it is right here.'"
He said he got his break with WWE because of Cesaro, Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins. He worked for WWE on 19 different occasions before getting signed:
"I was told again [WWE] were looking for guys over six [foot] whatever that could work. And so Claudio Castagnoli was down there, Tyler Black who is now Seth Rollins, and Jon Moxley who is Dean Ambrose, kind of all were close to Joey and said, 'hey, there's a kid out there that', I use the term, 'kid', loosely, 'there's a guy out there who can work and is tall and whatever and no one [has]ever called him.'"
Before getting the big break with WWE, He worked as a librarian:
"I was a librarian in a city school. That is correct." Harper added, "I kind of got hooked up through a family member who kind of had a connection and I applied and took the civil serviceTestand all this stuff and kind of got in. I was actually the keeper of thetext books and stuff, but I helped in the library."
Harper told that Cesaro and Joey Mercury helped him to get in touch for his current character with Wyatt:
"Even before, when I had signed my contract, I called Claudio and told him, so he tells me, he's like, 'oh, talk to this guy' and he puts Windham [Rotunda], Bray Wyatt, on the phone and he's just talking, like, 'oh yeah, I got this spot, blah, blah, blah' and I hang up the phone and I go, 'what the hell? What is he talking about?'So Joey's like, 'trust me. This is the perfect spot for you.'"
Along with this he talked many other things. He said that the Wyatt Entrance with a lantern was Triple H's idea. He also talked about the potentials of Barun Strawman. You can listen to the full podcast here: