Mgean Morant discusses how she ended up with WWE.
Morant's fanbase has continued to grow as she has continues to serve as a backstage correspondent for the SmackDown brand. Morant also appears on weekly episodes of The Bump, in addition other digital content for WWE.
Before coming to WWE, Morant worked in a different sports industry, as she held numerous positions for the New England Patriots.
In a new interview with Sam Roberts, Morant talked about her journey to WWE and how the opportunity kind of fell into her lap.
“I had never envisioned myself working at WWE. Not that I was against it, I just never thought that I’d ever end up here. I also didn’t know much about wrestling at all, I had watched maybe a tiny little bit — obviously growing up, you see all the kids with Austin 3:16 shirts, I knew about The Rock, but I never really sat down and watched. I was working in football for the Patriots, I was their in-house team reporter and I hosted a radio show, and I was there for four years and I had really reached my ceiling there. They loved me, I loved them, great experience but there wasn’t room for me to grow in that role, so I was looking to kind of see what was out there. I knew somebody at the talent office for Fox that I developed a really good relationship with and I was scrolling on LinkedIn one day and I saw that WWE is looking for a digital talent. So, I called up my pal Jacob and I was like, 'Hey, saw this WWE, I know they’re on Fox, what do you think about me and WWE?' He said, ‘I think you’d be really good at it, are you interested?’ A couple of emails were exchanged, I had a phone call with Tom Phillips and we chatted for a bit. A couple of months later, I got an email saying that Micheal Cole would like to schedule a call with you. At the time, I really didn’t know who Micheal Cole was. This was during the pandemic, I wasn’t really anticipating [anything], maybe my name got floated around, maybe my call with Tom Phillips was catching up, keep in touch. It was during the pandemic, the world was pretty locked down, we were living in Boston."
Morant went on to tell a story about how just moments before her call with Micheal Cole, her husband revealed to her that he is a huge fan of wrestling. Morant then detailed her call with Cole and how he gave her a month to become invested in the product.
“So I get on the phone with Cole and I tell him about myself, he tells me about WWE, he asks how much I know about wrestling and I’m ready to lie like oh yeah, I watch every week. He’s like, ‘Please don’t lie. I prefer to hire people who are not fans.’ I said, ‘Okay, I’ve never really watched.’ He said, ‘That’s okay, that’s okay. We can teach you about the product. How about I give you a month, you watch the product, I’ll fly you down and you can audition.’ So I get off the phone, I look at Andrew and I say, ‘We’re watching wrestling.’ So then I tell Andrew’s mom and she has books for me. She takes me into their basement, it’s filled with all of these action figures."
Morant also went on to tell a story about how her husband attended an episode of Raw in Boston and how he tried to keep it a secert from her. Morant then recalled watching the Royal Rumble and the feud between Alexa Bliss, Randy Orton, and Bray Wyatt.
"Now I’m interviewing for this position with this company that he’s totally kept a secret from me. So, it was very funny. We called his brother and [invited him] to come watch the Royal Rumble with us? I was in a pool, I picked numbers out of a pool. Bianca Belair won the Rumble, I was obsessed. As soon she came out with the braid, I was like, this is for me. I love this. Actually, the first episode I ever watched was that scene with Alexa Bliss and Randy Orton and the fire. I was hooked. I said to Andrew, ‘Why have I not watched this my whole life?’ I think wrestling for me is something that I would’ve always loved, it’s just we didn’t find each other until later in life.”
Morant recently finished a marathon in New York City, just fifteen weeks after donating her kidney. Fans can learn more by clicking here.
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