Ring announcers change brands in WWE Draft

The 2023 WWE Draft also includes a change in ring announcers for Raw and SmackDown.

WWE.com notes that Samantha Irvin will now be the ring announcer for Raw, while Mike Rome is moving to SmackDown. They had previously been assigned to the opposite brand.

Irvin is engaged to WWE wrestler Ricochet, who is also moving to the Raw roster. Ricochet and his tag team partner Braun Strowman were selected by Raw during night two of the draft on Monday.

The new rosters will officially take effect following WWE’s Backlash pay-per-view. The PPV is being held in San Juan, Puerto Rico this Saturday (May 6).

Here’s the full list of picks from both nights of the WWE Draft:

Raw —

Night one picks:

  • Cody Rhodes
  • Becky Lynch
  • Imperium (Intercontinental Champion Gunther, Ludvig Kaiser & Giovanni Vinci)
  • Matt Riddle
  • Drew McIntyre
  • The Miz
  • Shinsuke Nakamura
  • NXT Women’s Champion Indi Hartwell
  • The Viking Raiders & Valhalla
  • Dexter Lumis
  • Candice LeRae
  • Maximum Male Models (Mace, Mansoor & Maxxine Dupri)
  • Natalya
  • Apollo Crews
  • Sonya Deville & Chelsea Green
  • Zoey Stark
  • JD McDonagh

Night two picks:

  • SmackDown Women’s Champion Rhea Ripley
  • Seth Rollins
  • Undisputed WWE Tag Team Champions Kevin Owens & Sami Zayn
  • Judgment Day (Finn Balor, Damian Priest & Dominik Mysterio)
  • WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions Raquel Rodriguez & Liv Morgan
  • New Day (Xavier Woods & Kofi Kingston)
  • Trish Stratus
  • Ronda Rousey & Shayna Baszler
  • Braun Strowman & Ricochet
  • Bronson Reed
  • Alpha Academy (Chad Gable & Otis)
  • Katana Chance & Kayden Carter
  • Akira Tozawa
  • Garza & Humberto
  • Dana Brooke
  • Emma
  • Indus Sher (Jinder Mahal, Sanga & Veer Mahaan)
  • Johnny Gargano
  • Nikki Cross
  • Odyssey Jones
  • Piper Niven
  • Riddick Moss
  • Tegan Nox
  • Xia Li

SmackDown —

Night one picks:

  • Undisputed WWE Universal Champion Roman Reigns & Solo Sikoa (with Paul Heyman)
  • Raw Women’s Champion Bianca Belair
  • The Street Profits (Angelo Dawkins and Montez Ford)
  • Edge
  • Bobby Lashley
  • The OC (AJ Styles, Karl Anderson, Luke Gallows & Michin)
  • Damage CTRL (Bayley, Dakota Kai & IYO SKY)
  • NXT Women’s Tag Team Champions Alba Fyre & Isla Dawn
  • Hit Row (Top Dolla, Ashante “Thee” Adonis & B-Fab)
  • Lacey Evans

Night two picks:

  • United States Champion Austin Theory
  • Charlotte Flair
  • The Usos (Jimmy & Jey Uso)
  • The LWO (Rey Mysterio, Santos Escobar, Cruz Del Toro, Joaquin Wilde & Zelina Vega)
  • Asuka
  • The Brawling Brutes (Sheamus, Ridge Holland & Butch)
  • Karrion Kross & Scarlett
  • LA Knight
  • Shotzi
  • Pretty Deadly (Elton Prince & Kit Wilson)
  • Rick Boogs
  • Cameron Grimes
  • Grayson Waller
  • Tamina

Brock Lesnar, Omos, Mustafa Ali, Dolph Ziggler, Von Wagner, Baron Corbin, Shelton Benjamin & Cedric Alexander, Elias, and Xyon Quinn have been announced as “free agents.”