Rhino helped Alicia Taylor get her foot in the door.
Since 2018, Taylor has been an essential part of WWE programming, ring announcing episodes of Raw, SmackDown, and NXT. With various premium live event appearances under her belt as well, Taylor has established herself as one of the company's signature ring announcers.
While speaking to Bully Ray on a new episode of Busted Open After Dark, Taylor first spoke about starting her career off by doing interviews on a personal YouTube channel. After doing a few dates on the indies, Taylor became friends with Rhino.
“Then, Rhino comes along. Rhino comes into my life. I’m very good friends with former bass player of the Smashing Pumpkins, long story condensed. Rhino goes to see Smashing Pumpkins, [the bass player] texts me, she’s like ‘Do you know this guy? I know you like wrestling.’ Sends me a picture of her and Rhino. I was like, ‘Yeah, I know Rhino from ECW and whatever.’ Cut to a few months later, I see Rhino at an indie show in Bay City, Michigan. We start talking. He’s like, ‘I know your friend from Smashing Pumpkins.’ This is how we meet and become friends.”
Taylor went on to reveal that Rhino was the person that got her an audition for WWE.
“Then he sees my show on YouTube. He goes, ‘Did you ever think about working for WWE?’ I was like, ‘Well, of course, but like I don’t — how am I gonna do that, everyone wants to work for WWE.’ He’s like, ‘Let me show them your stuff.’ So, he sent in my interviews, got an audition. Long story short, here we are six and half years later.”
Taylor currently serves as the ring announcer for WWE Raw.
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