As a severe winter storm continues to maneuver through North America, many individuals have faced delays, cancelations, or re-routings of their travels. For “WWE Raw” ring announcer Alicia Taylor, it has resulted in her being stuck on the airport and unable to make it to the January 26 edition of WWE’s red brand.
“Currently on the airport with all canceled flights to Canada soo… tagging in sister Lil for the fill,” Taylor wrote on her Instagram story, confirming Lilian Garcia’s imminent return because the “Raw” ring announcer in her absence. “Thanks @LilianGarcia #RAW.”
While now not a full-time ring announcer, Garcia is within the midst of a two-year cope with WWE that sees her working Saturday Night’s Essential Event specials and other select shows for the corporate. Most recently, Garcia lent her voice to the January 24 edition of SNME, which emanated from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. With Taylor’s flight to the fallout episode of “Raw” canceled, Garcia will now also make her solution to Toronto, Ontario.
Taylor is not the only WWE on-screen personality affected by the continuing winter emergency. During Saturday Night’s Essential Event, Stephanie McMahon revealed that Joe Tessitore was unable to co-host the event on account of being stranded at an airport in Detroit, Michigan. As of this writing, it’s unknown if he might be back for his other scheduled appearances this week.
On tomorrow’s episode of “Raw,” the teams of the Latest Day (Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods), American Made (Brutus Creed and Julius Creed), Alpha Academy (Otis and Akira Tozawa), and Los Americanos (Bravo and Rayo) will compete in a four-way match to find out the primary contenders to the WWE World Tag Team Championships. Elsewhere, AJ Styles and GUNTHER will appear ahead of their Royal Rumble match.