During an interview with Ryan Satin of the Out Of Character podcast, WWE announcer Samantha Irvin talked about her move to RAW. Irvin stated that she was iffy on the change at first, but that she has grown to love nearly everything about the red brand.

“You know, I don’t really like change so I was immediately like, ‘What could go wrong? I’m moving shows’ but on SmackDown… there’s a S-A-M in SmackDown. I have a lot of blue clothes. The energy of SmackDown, from the time that SmackDown debuted, I was a SmackDown person. So, I was a little sad at first, but now I’m absolutely loving it. I love it. I love the schedule, I love what’s being going on on Raw, I’ve been loving the matches and the rivalries that are unfolding. I love doing Main Event too, because the sneaky good matches be on Main Event. I’m enjoying my colleagues on Monday Night Raw, so it’s been excellent. The crowds have been crazy, we’ve been to great cities.”

Michael Cole giving her advice:

“When I started, he was like, ‘Hey, go for it. I know we’re used to doing things a certain way, but if something comes over you and you wanna do it, just go for it.’ Luckily, a lot what I’ve thrown at the wall has stuck. I think, I don’t want to put words in Mr. McMahon’s mouth, but since he didn’t yell at me or anything, I think he was happy with what I was doing. I mean, I got called up and within two weeks I was in the ring doing Royal Rumble, two or three months later I was in the ring with him at WrestleMania. So, even though we never spoke, I took that as a sign that he was happy with what I was doing. I definitely got lucky with all of the factors that were at play when I started.”

How she got her start in WWE:

“When I got the offer, Mark Henry called me and he was like, ‘Listen to the greats, listen to Fink, listen to the great announcers’ and I was like, ‘I’m already there, I’m listening and I’m ready.’ I think that it happened at a — it was a transition period. When I got hired, it was the end of the Thunderdome era. Pat McAfee was still on SmackDown, NXT was turning into NXT 2.0, so there were a lot of changes happening that I think I was kinda able to slide in and be a little crazy.”