Lilian Garcia returns to ring announcing on WWE Raw
Lilian Garcia is back on Raw.
Prior to the opening match on Monday, Joe Tessitore mentioned the news that Samantha Irvin was moving on from WWE. He then welcomed Garcia, who introduced the first match between The New Day and The Authors of Pain.
Garcia has been a longtime ring announcer for WWE, starting back in the fall of 1999. After briefly leaving in 2009, she returned in 2012 and continued until 2016, when she left the company once again. Earlier this year, she made a surprise appearance on an episode of Raw in South Carolina, sharing a moment with Irvin before guest announcing a match between Kofi Kingston and Gunther.
Irvin announced earlier on Monday that she was moving on from WWE, thanking multiple people including the likes of Triple H, Road Dogg, and Mark Henry. While she didn’t reveal where she would be going, she told fans to ‘stay tuned’. Ricochet, Irvin’s fiance, wrote on social media that she wasn’t headed to AEW.