{"id":335682,"date":"2026-05-16T13:54:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T08:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=335682"},"modified":"2026-05-16T13:54:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T08:24:49","slug":"backstage-update-blake-monroes-foremost-roster-wwe-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/16\/backstage-update-blake-monroes-foremost-roster-wwe-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Backstage Update &#8211; Blake Monroe&#8217;s Foremost Roster WWE Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_91\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>Blake Monroe is headed to WWE SmackDown soon, and latest reports have shed some light on when her debut could occur. The previous NXT Women\u2019s North American Champion was officially announced for SmackDown throughout the April 24 episode, with vignette packages airing within the weeks since to hype her arrival.<\/p>\n<p>In accordance with a report from Pwinsider, Monroe is predicted to be traveling with the SmackDown roster next week. WWE will hold next Friday\u2019s edition of SmackDown on the Rupp Arena in Lexington, KY.<\/p>\n<p>That said, it&#8217;s unknown if Monroe will debut on next week\u2019s show. The report only notes that she is scheduled to be on the road with the SmackDown crew.<\/p>\n<p>Monroe joins a growing list of recent NXT call-ups following WrestleMania 42, including Fatal Influence, Ricky Saints, Sol Ruca, Ethan Page, and Joe Hendry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> If you may have any news suggestions or podcast recaps that you just\u2019d wish to send in for us to post (full credit can be given to you), please email me at <span class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"3466775855465f646367746d555c5b5b1a575b59\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blake Monroe is headed to WWE SmackDown soon, and latest reports have shed some light on when her debut could occur. The previous NXT Women\u2019s North American Champion was officially announced for SmackDown throughout the April 24 episode, with vignette packages airing within the weeks since to hype her arrival. In accordance with a report [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":335683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21056],"tags":[13881,10799,1806,5422,39972,16540,581,6221],"class_list":["post-335682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wwe-and-more","tag-backstage","tag-blake","tag-debut","tag-main","tag-monroes","tag-roster","tag-update","tag-wwe"],"aioseo_notices":[{"message":"The permalink for this post just changed! This could result in 404 errors for your site visitors.","status":"warning","options":{"id":"0a2ae5f84bc2c0423042ed7ec22d2e40","isDismissible":true,"actions":[{"url":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/wp-admin\/admin.php?page=aioseo-redirects","label":"Add Redirect to improve SEO","class":"aioseo-redirects-slug-changed"}]},"allowedContexts":["posts"]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335682"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335685,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335682\/revisions\/335685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}