Samantha Irvin announces she is leaving WWE Raw, Lillian Garcia is reportedly set to return as ring announcer

Popular WWE ring announcer Samantha Irvin announced Monday that she is leaving WWE's “Monday Night Raw.” In a post on social media, she thanked Hall of Famers Brian “Road Dogg” James, Mark Henry and WWE Chief Content Officer Paul “Triple H” Levesque, among others, for their support during her time with the company.

With her arena-filling voice and obvious passion for the business, Irvin has become a mainstay and center stage on WWE television broadcasts over the past few years since joining the company in 2021. Perhaps her most memorable moment came at the end of the main event of WrestleMania 41, when Cody Rhodes dethroned Roman Reigns and won the WWE Championship.

Irvin is married to former WWE superstar and current AEW wrestler Ricochet. The former WWE superstar left the promotion earlier this year to work for Tony Khan's company and posted a post in support of Irvin on Monday.

Fightful Select's Sean Ross-Sapp reported Monday that former WWE ring announcer Lilian Garcia is returning to the company to replace Irvin as ring announcer on Monday's edition of “WWE Raw.”

WWE's long-running flagship weekly series currently airs on the USA Network, but is entering a new era and will air on Netflix starting January 2025.