Former WWE ring announcer Justin Roberts recently did an interview with Cult Of Whatever to promote his new book ‘Best Seat in the House: Your Backstage Pass through My WWE Journey’. Roberts was signed to WWE back in 2002 as a ring announcer, and remained with the company until 2014 when he was released.
He discussed what the hardest part about working as a ring announcer, as well as receiving some ridiculously long scripts to memorize shortly before the show. You can check out what he had to say here:
Hardest part about working for WWE as a ring announcer:
“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”
Receiving long scripts to memorize shortly before shows:
“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 memorize 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”
You can check out Roberts full interview with Cult Of Whatever by clicking here.