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Former WWE broadcaster Kayla Becker spent eight years with the company before leaving to broaden her outlook on the broader sports spectrum.
Becker recently partnered with BZZR as she continues her career in broadcasting. Pro wrestling fans who listen to Becker’s sports broadcasts will certainly remember the days when she was behind the broadcast desk for pre-shows, backstage for interviews or even announcing.
She explained how she was able to get the WWE job in a recent interview with PK Press Club Digital. She said she was hosting a travel segment for a local station before someone from WWE contacted her and asked if she would be interested in announcing it.
“So, I knew someone who worked there and they knew who I was because I was an ‘Orlando personality.’ And they said to me, ‘Hey, would you be interested in joining our announcing team? And I’ve never watched wrestling a day in my life. And I was like, I just don’t know where my career is going,'” she said. “And they sent me to Full Sail (university) one day where they were doing some recordings and I was immediately captivated.
Kayla Becker attends the premiere of “Five Nights At Freddy’s 2” presented by Universal Pictures and Blumhouse at TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood, California on December 2, 2025. (Savion Washington/Getty Images for Universal Pictures and Blumhouse)
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“I felt like it was the craziest, coolest world I’d ever been in. All the wrestlers that were superstars, behind the scenes, they were so cool, so knowledgeable, so exciting. So, literally, I was like, let’s do this. Maybe I’ll be here for a year or two. And fast forward, eight years, basically, kicking and screaming, I finally had to get out of those doors. That was the game. the coolest of my career without exception.”
For someone who had never watched wrestling in their entire life, getting into WWE was like being thrown into the deep end of a pool when you had never swum before.
Becker was in for a treat.
She recalled to PK Press Club Digital the moment that got her hooked.
“I think the first pay-per-view I remember, maybe the first one I attended, was the Royal Rumble,” she said. “At the time, I think I was just there. I worked there but I wasn’t on the main roster yet. So, I just had to be there as a fan and the excitement in the build up to a Royal Rumble, if you’ve never experienced that, there’s nothing like it. At that point, I remember getting goosebumps and then I was like, wait, I work here. I’m part of this world now. One day, I could announce it, which I did. I was a part of a lot of Royal Rumbles, I think that was probably one of the first moments where I was like, this is a pretty cool place.
Becker’s work was very different from that of the athletes who perform in the ring.
Kayla Becker attends the HIM Training Camp Creator event in Venice, California on August 5, 2025. (Tiffany Rose/Getty Images)
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She had the opportunity to make in-ring announcements before becoming a backstage interviewer and participating in the pre-show shows. She said she didn’t really enjoy her time as a ring announcer and felt like she performed better as a backstage interviewer.
“I think my first gig I was an interviewer backstage at NXT and I was doing announcements for house shows. So we would go to the little gun shops around Florida and I would announce them,” Becker told PK Press Club Digital. “And I was never a great ring announcer. I never really liked it. The fans, I’ve been gone for two years, they love to remind me on Twitter that I wasn’t a good ring announcer. OK, calm down guys. Try to do it. It’s not easy. But I think those days were some of the most stressful. Any ring announcer will tell you that. You mentioned Alicia Taylor, we have Mike Rome, Samantha Irvin was there for a while, it’s one of the hardest jobs, I think in every field people underestimate ring announcers and referees because I think it’s very stressful, so as a ring announcer we don’t have cards you have to memorize hometowns, weights, nicknames, the cadence in which you say their names, I just remember spending hours repeating those things to myself. “First to neutralize,” I said, “to beheaded.” And you’re live and honestly, that would work too If you’re beheaded, you can’t keep fighting.
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Kayla Becker attends the world premiere of “Black Phone 2” presented by Universal Pictures and Blumhouse at TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood, California on October 8, 2025. (Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for Universal Pictures and Blumhouse)
“But then, as a behind-the-scenes interviewer, as an actual ‘journalist’ of the company, it was a lot different. I think my role was a lot more creative. I got to talk to the superstars, talk to the writers, how to best present the stories they were trying to tell on screen. I think I had a lot more fun in that role because I think…I had a lot more fun trying to tell the story rather than yelling into a microphone.”
Becker credited John Cena’s mentorship with helping her become the best she could be at her position.
“Look, John Cena will be synonymous with wrestling and Hollywood forever,” she said. “John Cena was one of the first mentor type people I ever met when I first started in WWE. I was in the ring announcing house shows and he would give me advice on how to be better and that continued through the years. He is a very good mentor and a very good example behind the scenes.”
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Now, Becker is at the forefront of all sports with BZZR, as new social media platforms seek to unite sports fans from all fandoms in one place.
