WWE: Lilian Garcia To Fill In For Alicia Taylor for 9/22 WWE Raw Show, AJ Lee on Her In-Ring Return Being “A Lot of Fun”, Jey Uso Reportedly in Concussion Protocol Following Wrestlepalooza, Kylie Rae Announces Pregnancy

Lilian Garcia To Fill In For Alicia Taylor for 9/22 WWE Raw Show

WWE RAW ring announcer Alisha Taylor announced earlier today on Twitter that Lilian Garcia will be filling in for her as the ring announcer for this Monday’s WWE RAW show in Evansville, Indiana.

In a follow-up tweet, Taylor stated that she will be returning to resume her ring announcing duties at next week’s show and the reason for her missing this week’s show was simply due to her having the day off.


AJ Lee Comments on Her In-Ring Return Being “A Lot of Fun”

Saturday’s WWE Wrestlepalooza event in Indianapolis, Indiana featured AJ Lee & CM Punk defeating Becky Lynch & Seth Rollins in a Mixed Tag Team match. This match was notable for being Lee’s first match in ten years.

Following the show, WWE held a Wrestlepalooza post-show featuring Lee as one of the guests. One of the topics discussed included Lee’s thoughts about her in-ring return to WWE.

“The match? It felt amazing. It was really surreal. It’s been a minute. Everything hurts way more than I remember. But that was a lot of fun.”

Lee also gave her thoughts about the changes in WWE’s locker room and company since the last time she worked for the company in 2015.

“Definitely. I mean, everyone was so welcoming and so kind and so complementary in a way that made me feel like, oh! I did something and that it meant something to these wonderfully talented women. To be any tiny piece of their journey is so humbling. I’m so proud of them, like a mama, and they’re wonderful and I’m happy to be in their presence in the locker room but, the evolution of the women has been the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen. They deserved it 10 years ago, they deserve it now, they deserve even more in the next 10 years.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com


Jey Uso Reportedly in Concussion Protocol Following Wrestlepalooza

Saturday’s WWE Wrestlepalooza event in Indianapolis, Indiana also featured The Vision (“Big” Bronson Reed & Bron Breakker) defeating The Usos (Jimmy & Jey Uso) in a tag team match with special guest referee LA Knight. This match was notable for Jey Uso getting busted open after a spot involving Uso hitting Breakker with a chair only for the chair to bounce back and hit him in the head.

The Wrestling Observer’s Bryan Alvarez reported that his sources stated that Uso was placed in concussion protocol following his tag team match on the show.

Alvarez reported that this is standard procedure in WWE for injuries of this nature.


Kylie Rae Announces Pregnancy

WWE EVOLVE and WWE ID talent Kylie Rae announced earlier today on Twitter that she is pregnant.

The announcement was made following Rae responding to a fan who asked why she had recently vacated her Relentless Wrestling Women’s Championship.

Prior to her announcement, Rae last wrestled this past August.