Current SmackDown Live Tag Team Champion Luke Harper has said WWE called him just as he thought about leaving the wrestling industry.

Speaking to Rochester First, Harper said how he thought his dream was over, when his wife told him she was pregnant, around the same time he had lost his job.

He said: "I was a librarian at Frederick Douglas Middle School and so I thought the world was over and they called and said, “Hey, can you come for a trial and I said, ‘No, I have a broken leg.”

The former Intercontinental Champion said how six months after this incident, he was sure he would never compete again. 

“My wife was 8 months pregnant and I was just coming back from Japan and I said, ‘Honey, I’m done, this is it, I’m just going to go get another real job and we’ll make do here,’ and that’s the day (WWE called saying), ‘Hey, can you come for a tryout?'", Harper said. 

Harper signed with WWE in 2012, and has been an NXT Tag Team Champion, Intercontinental Champion and 2-time SmackDown Live Tag Team Champion.