Jack Korpela Reveals How He Got Hired By WWE

Former WWE announcer Jack Korpela was interviewed by To Be Determined. You can check out the full podcast at this link, and see submitted highlights below.

Getting Hired by WWE:

I got out of college summer of ’05. Figured I would be working in broadcast sports within a few months right? I’m ready to go. I got some experience. I got a tape. And then reality sunk in. This is a lot harder than I thought. Spent a few months in my parents’s basement. Couldn’t find a job. Was banging on doors everywhere. I kept hearing send out tapes. Back then, actual VHS tapes because that was the most affordable thing for me to do. I was sending them out, it sounds crazy now. Anyway, I ended up sending a tape to WWE on a whim. What the Heck? Let me try. 

Commentary With Matt Striker:
 Very smart guy. Another guy that makes you insecure in a way because we all have strengths and weaknesses and Matt has an incredibly strong vocabulary. Very intelligent. Understood the business from being a worker himself so it was intimidating for me. I knew that I had something to offer, but then to be paired with this guy. It’s like being a tag team out there. How can we have good synergy? How can we have good chemistry? So that took awhile to figure out.