Mike Rome Recalls Trying Not To Laugh While Interviewing Chris Jericho And Kevin Owens

Mike Rome recalls trying not to laugh while interviewing Chris Jericho and Kevin Owens early on in his WWE career.

Currently the ring announcer for SmackDown, Rome has been part of the company for several years now. When he was just starting out, Rome would interview talent backstage.

In a new interview with the Out Of Character podcast, Rome was asked to recall some of his favorite interviews of his career. 

“Yeah, I think the Jericho stuff was always good. Definitely the stuff that Jericho and Tom did, the main stuff that he did for a long time but one of my favorites, and it was the hardest one not to laugh on. It was after KO and Jericho both got titles, I think they had individual titles but they were backstage, I was interviewing them afterwards and they kick me out of the frame. They’re going back and forth and Kevin starts yelling, ‘George! George!’, and he’s looking at me and they’re like ‘I think you’re George’. I’m 6’2, so when I’m backstage, I’m a lot shorter, so I had to walk back into frame because there was no easy way for me to slide back into frame. I kind of side-walked into there, you can see me kind of leaning to the side. Kevin, he’s going back and forth with Chris, all of the sudden he just looks at me, ‘Did you get taller?’ and he starts just going in on me, they start stepping on the steps in Gorilla and he’s karate chopping and at this point, I’ve bitten holes in my tongue because doing backstages with them, it’s so hard not to laugh because you don’t know what they are going to say. You have no idea what’s coming out, these guys are two of the best and I walked out of there with a bleeding tongue that day.”

Mike Rome

Rome has made his way to the big leagues, as mentioned previously, now being the ring announcer for the blue brand.

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