Luke Harper Almost Quit Wrestling In 2011

Luke Harper is currently a member of SmackDown Live, and he’s had an interesting run since he joined the WWE main roster in 2014. For most of Harper’s run on the main roster he’s been a member of The Wyatt Family, but he’s also managed to find success on his own.

Harper is a former Intercontinental and SmackDown Tag Team Champion, but the former Wyatt Family member recently told Democrat and Chronicle that he almost hung up his boots in 2011.

“I said to her, ‘This is it. I’m done. I can’t be away from you, we just have to figure something out.’ ” Huber said. “I was just going to wrestle locally and I come back from the tour, make the decision, everything’s good, then WWE calls and says ‘Hey, we want you to come try out.’ So, literally, I was as far out as I’ve ever been in my life away from pro wrestling, and they instantly pulled me back in and it was back to it.”

Before he found success in wrestler, Harper worked as a book clerk for the Rochester City School District. He says that as videos of him wrestling on YouTube became more popular, students started to ask him about his work inside the squared circle.

“Once in a while a kid would come to my office and say, ‘Mr. Huber, is this you?’ And they would show me a video which was obviously me and I would say ‘Please don’t share that with anybody,’ ” he said. “Then a couple others would come in, but they were so cool about it – nobody ever made it a big deal. All the other people I worked with knew what I did. Everyone was awesome there.”