Tag: Samantha Irvin

Samantha Irvin has one year left on her non-compete clause.

The popular ring announcer left WWE in October 2024, with it later being reported that Irvin and the company could not come to an agreement on her working outside projects.

In response to a follower on X recently noting that it’s been a year since she left WWE, Irvin responded that it’s one year down and another to go on her non-compete clause.

Irvin wrote:

“One year down, one year left on my non-compete! Can’t wait. I hope you enjoy my songs in the meantime and look back on all the memories as fondly as I do! Love & miss you all and remember- I NEVER left FOR music, I am music. Hope to see you soon…..”

Following her departure from WWE, Irvin said that she didn’t enjoy ring announcing and had wanted a different on-screen role with the company.

“I don’t like announcing,” she revealed on Instagram. “I’m serious! Announcing was only supposed to be my way in. I wanted to manage, maybe even become general manager one day. But WWE saw no other future for me besides announcer. I love watching the action but I don’t love being an announcer.”

In February 2025, Irvin told USA Today that it’s guaranteed she will return to wrestling at some point:

“That’s a guarantee. My wrestling career has barely even begun,” Irvin said. “I think it would be an absolute waste of everything that I’ve done so far to not continue the story. I gotta finish my story.”

Irvin and AEW’s Ricochet were married in March of this year. As for Irvin’s music career, she just released a new music video for her song “Sweet’ last week. A link to the video is here and below:

Samantha Irvin wanted to do other things in WWE beyond announcing.

Since Irvin announced her departure from WWE earlier this week, comments have been pouring into her Instagram post announcing her decision. Some comments sought to cast blame on Irvin’s fiance, Ricochet, who recently left WWE to join AEW. Irvin responded to those comments by sharing her feelings about her role in WWE, saying she wanted to do more than the role she was given.

“I don’t like announcing,” she revealed on Instagram. “I’m serious! Announcing was only supposed to be my way in. I wanted to manage, maybe even become general manager one day. But WWE saw no other future for me besides announcer. I love watching the action but I don’t love being an announcer.”

When another user wrote to Irvin “ur untalented husband did this huh,” Irvin replied that his success allowed her to leave a role she didn’t like.

“My husband is a millionaire so yes, I don’t have to do a job I don’t like anymore,” she wrote.

In a follow-up report, it was noted that WWE and Irvin could not come to terms regarding outside projects. Irvin is looking to focus on music.

Samantha Irvin’s music career influenced her decision to leave WWE.

Irvin, who had been with the company since 2021, announced her departure before Monday’s episode of Raw in Philadelphia. Lillian Garcia returned and replaced her as ring announcer on the show.

Our Dave Meltzer and Bryan Alvarez discussed her decision to leave WWE on today’s edition of Wrestling Observer Radio, noting that she is looking to focus more on her music and could not come to terms with WWE on outside projects.

“She’s actually been thinking about it for about a year,” Meltzer said on the show.

“She’s got some outside projects she wants to do. Apparently, couldn’t come to terms with how it worked with WWE and off she goes,” Alvarez added.

“She wants to be a singer. I mean, she is a singer, she also plays the flute but she wants to get more involved in her music. It’s just something she’s been talking about for a long, long time and finally pulled the trigger on it,” Meltzer continued.

It was noted that Lillian Garcia left WWE in 2009 to focus on her music career as well before returning to the company in 2011.

Irvin posted to X on Tuesday, clarifying that she’d given the company notice she was leaving “months ago.”

Not long after the news broke, Irvin’s fiancee, AEW’s Ricochet, noted on social media that she was not headed to AEW.

“Haha, she’s not coming to AEW,” he wrote on X. “You can all rest easy.”

“(Irvin’s) not planning on going to AEW, not saying 100 percent that she won’t go. Ricochet actually tweeted that she’s not going and it’s not her intention to go there,” Meltzer added.

Samantha Irvin has left WWE.

The popular ring announcer posted a message to social media on Monday revealing the news. Irvin had been with the company since April 2021. While Irvin did not reveal what she plans to do next in her career, she told fans to “stay tuned.”

She wrote:

“WWE Universe, my time has come to an end as your Monday Night Raw Ring Announcer. I love you all tremendously and this does not mark the end of my art, I have a lifetime more to share. Thank you to every WWE fan who accepted me.
To the Women’s Locker Room: you are the most incredible group of people on the face of this Earth. I am beyond proud to be your colleague and friend.
To the Crew & Cameramen: I can’t thank you enough for the encouragement, the laughs. You created such a wonderful, positive atmosphere for me. Love you all.
To the WWE Superstars, past and present: I have thanked you since 1989 and will continue to thank you for the rest of my days for entertaining us. For raising the bar over and over again. For risking your bodies and finding new ways to keep us shocked and wanting more. There is no form of entertainment like this and not just any entertainer can be a WWE Superstar. The respect I have for you is more than I can express. Thank you for making it so easy to pour emotion and excitement into your introductions. You are the stars that the stars idolize. It doesn’t get any bigger and I’m proud to have used my voice to let the world know it.
Thank you Paul Heyman, Michael PS Hayes, & Michael Cole. I will continue to apply what I learned from you to every aspect of my career. Thank you for invigorating my creativity.
Thank you Brian “Road Dogg” James, Scott Armstrong, Gabe Sapolsky, and George Carroll Jr. for giving me my first opportunities to rise to the occasion.
Thank you to HHH for trusting me and showcasing me on this platform.
Thank you Mark Henry for giving me my big break. I hope I made you proud.
Thank you to all the Coaches, Producers, Medical, Writers, Talent Relations, Makeup, Photography, Social Media, Digital, Travel Department, Catering, Merch, 2k Team, Referees, Security and Announce Team for everything you did to help me along the way.
To my fans, my entire career I’ve been waiting for you! We are meant to be and I can prove it. Stay tuned.
All my love! And still…
Samantha”

Irvin’s fiance is AEW wrestler Ricochet. The couple announced their engagement in January 2023. Ricochet left WWE in June and made his AEW debut in August at All In.

Chelsea Green responded to the news, writing, “I will miss seeing your smiling face at work! I am so lucky to have shared the ring with you & even more lucky to have been a part of your iconic ring announcements.”

Green also added: