WWE: Blake Monroe on Joining WWE Was Always Dream of Hers & Belief WWE Will Help Her Grow ‘The Glamour’ Persona, More on NXT July 8, 2025 Viewership, More News

Blake Monroe Comments on Joining WWE Was Always Dream of Hers & Belief WWE Will Help Her Grow ‘The Glamour’ Persona

Deadline held a recent interview with Blake Monroe. One of the topics discussed included Monroe’s thoughts about how her joining WWE was always a lifelong dream of hers and her belief that WWE will help her grow her “The Glamour” persona.

“I’ve wanted to be a WWE superstar since I was a little kid. I’ve always been a super girly girl, very glamorous, if you will. When I started my wrestling journey in 2019 in England, which is where I’m originally from, I was developing my character. In the British wrestling scene, everyone was very punk; everyone wore black. It was a whole vibe, but that just isn’t who I am. It felt very insincere of me to change who I am to fit in. So I was like, ‘I’m gonna wear pink and purple.’ I came out to an Ariana Grande theme song. I was totally different from everybody else, but I think people liked it because you could tell it was very authentic. The kids loved it because it was so bright and colorful.

Then I went to Japan, and they love just the whole idol culture and that presentation. There I learned to develop The Glamour, because I’ve always had that name. It’s nice to see how it has evolved; it got bigger in Japan. And then finally, coming to WWE, which is known for its showmanship, allows me to step it up even more and develop everything from my gear, to my entrance, to my theme song and my persona, and just put it all to the max.”

Monroe also gave her thoughts about if she identifies her current character in WWE as a heel.

“Blake is Blake, however you want to see her or define her. I feel like it’s pretty clear to me; I would say I’m a good guy. I mean, Fatal Influence is just the worst. I had my little debut segment, and they decided to put me through a table. So, I’m definitely going to have Jordynne Grace’s back and team up with her to take them on and to defeat that evil, one way or another. Jacy is going to lose that title, and we’re going to bring NXT back to the good guys.”

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More on WWE NXT July 8, 2025 Viewership

The July 8th episode of WWE NXT saw NXT gain a large increase in overall viewership and a slight increase in key demographic ratings.

NXT drew 695,000 viewers and a 0.16 key demographic rating on The CW.

Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that the main reasons for NXT’s increases this week was due to a combination of the weaker than usual competition and general television viewership that night and the large increases from their Over 50 demographic and older key demographic viewership groups, which its percentage was not given. This reportedly offset the large decline from their younger key demographic group, which was down 33.3% compared to last week’s show.

In terms of head-to-head competition, the WNBA game of Las Vegas Aces vs. New York Liberty drew 701,000 viewers on ESPN, the NBA Summer League game of Memphis Grizzles vs. Philadelphia 76ers drew 48,000 viewers on NBA TV, the NBA Summer League game of Oklahoma City Thunder vs. Utah Jazz drew 81,000 viewers on NBA TV, the MLB game of Los Angeles Dodgers vs. Milwaukee Brewers drew 373,000 viewers on TBS, The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch drew 1,030,000 viewers on History Channel, The Valley drew 396,000 viewers on BRAVO, Love & Hip Hop Atlanta drew 426,000 viewers on MTV, My Big Fat Fabulous Life drew 481,000 viewers on TLC, and Chopped drew 385,000 viewers on Food Network.

In terms of key demographic viewership, NXT had 214,000 viewers. Meltzer reported that NXT’s male/female viewership skew was 71% in favor of males.

In terms of yearly comparisons, NXT was up 5.9% in overall viewership but down 32.9% in key demographic viewership. Meltzer reported that NXT’s 18-34 key demographic viewership was down 55.6% compared to the same week last year.

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WWE News & Notes

WWE reportedly has sold and distributed around 729 tickets for today’s NXT Great American Bash 2025 event at the Center Stage in Atlanta, Georgia as of Friday evening, according to WrestleTix.

WWE reportedly also has sold and distributed around 11,781 tickets for tonight’s Saturday Night’s Main Event show at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta as of this past Thursday, according to WrestleTix.

Friday’s WWE SmackDown show in Nashville, Tennessee featured NXT talent and current WWE Speed Women’s Champion Sol Ruca making her official main roster debut. Ruca competed in a Fatal Four-way match against Alexa Bliss, Roxanne Perez, and Kairi Sane, which was won by Bliss.

Friday’s WWE SmackDown show also featured commentator Wade Barrett announcing that the main event of their Evolution 2 event on July 13th in Atlanta will be WWE Women’s World Championship match of Rhea Ripley vs. IYO SKY (c).

As noted before, WWE current is planning for musician Jelly Roll to compete in a match at this August’s SummerSlam 2025 and to be involved in a storyline feud with Logan Paul for the event. Jelly Roll is currently speculated to be competing in a tag team match with Randy Orton against Paul and Drew McIntyre based on Roll’s interactions with Paul and Orton during Friday’s WWE SmackDown show.

Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that the July 6th episode of WWE LFG on A&E drew a 0.02 or less rating for the reason why it failed to chart from Nielsen for that night’s cable television shows.

PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that his sources stated that the reason why TNA Knockouts World Champion Masha Slamovich was recently pulled from Game Changer Wrestling’s Boss of All Bosses event on Friday was due to Slamovich is currently scheduled to make two appearances this weekend for WWE. These appearances reportedly are today’s NXT Great American Bash 2025 event and this Sunday’s Evolution 2 event in Atlanta.

WWE recently released one new video for their on-going Top 25 SummerSlam matches of all-time countdown. The #20 spot was the WWE World Heavyweight Championship No Holds Barred match of Randy Orton vs. Christian (c) from SummerSlam 2011.

WWE also recently released one new video to their WCW Vault channel on YouTube. This new video was a WCW World Heavyweight Championship match of Big Van Vader vs. Sting (c) from WCW The Great American Bash 1992.

WWE also recently released two new videos to their WWE Vault channel on YouTube. The first new video was a “Booker T reacts to his greatest moments | Harlem Heat, King Booker and more” episode of WWE Retrospective. The second new video was a Punjabi Prison match of The Undertaker vs. Big Show from WWE Great American Bash 2006.