WWE: Bloodline Civil War Set for Money in the Bank, Dominik Mysterio, More on NXT June 13, 2023 Viewership

Jun 17, 2023

Bloodline Civil War Match Announced for Money in the Bank 2023, Update Card

Friday’s WWE SmackDown show in Lexington, Kentucky featured Jey Uso making his official decision siding with his brother Jimmy and leave The Bloodline. Jey cemented his decision with a superkick given to Roman Reigns and the Usos giving superkicks to both Solo Sikoa and Reigns to close out the show.

WWE announced during today’s SmackDown LowDown digital show that a “Bloodline Civil War” tag team match has been officially added to the card of their Money in the Bank 2023 event on July 1st in London, England. This tag team match will be The Usos vs. Roman Reigns & Solo Sikoa.

Updated card for Money in the Bank 2023:

WWE World Heavyweight Championship – Finn Balor vs. Seth Rollins (c)
Men’s Money in the Bank Ladder match – Ricochet vs. Shinsuke Nakamura vs. LA Knight vs. Santos Escobar vs. Butch vs. Damian Priest
Women’s Money in the Bank Ladder match – Zelina Vega vs. Becky Lynch vs. Zoey Stark vs. Bayley vs. Iyo Sky vs. TBD
“Bloodline Civil War” match – The Usos (Jimmy & Jey Uso) vs. The Bloodline (Roman Reigns & Solo Sikoa)
Cody Rhodes vs. Dominik Mysterio

Dominik Mysterio Comments on His Current Heel Persona in WWE

Inside The Ropes held a recent interview with Dominik Mysterio. One of the topics discussed included Dominik Mysterio’s thoughts on the development of his current heel persona in WWE.

“I don’t know. I think it’s kind of just always secretly been hidden in me, that I’m kind of just this dick. Which, like with all things, it just came naturally to me, man. I don’t know what it was, but I think what really helped me was I guess when I was training with Lance and with Jay Lethal, I guess everyone thought I was just gonna be a babyface like my dad and just be a good guy all the time. So when I would do practice matches, I would want to be a heel. I wanted to be the bad guy. So I trained, most of the time, my practice matches, I was always the bad guy. So it was always fun to kind of get into that character. Once I got the opportunity, I was like, I’m not gonna blow it. RBIs is gonna be the one. I’ve always wanted to be the bad guy. Guys like Eddie Guerrero, Dean Malenko, Chris Jericho, guys like that I grew up watching, that’s how I wanted to do it.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

More on NXT Week 192 Viewership – June 13, 2023

The June 13th episode of WWE NXT saw suffer a small decline in overall viewership and key demographic rankings and a slight decline in key demographic ratings.

NXT drew 581,000 viewers and a 0.16 key demographic rating on USA Network. NXT’s key demographic ranking for that night was 8th place.

Detailed viewership and key demographic breakdowns were not available in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter.

Dave Meltzer reported that the main reason for NXT’s declines this week was due to stiff sports competition from the NHL Stanley Cup Finals and the large decline from their older key key demographic viewership group, which was down 12.3% compared to last week’s show. Another reason reportedly was due to the small decline from their Over 50 viewership group, which was down 3.2% compared to last week’s show.

In terms of head-to-head competition, the 2023 NHL Stanley Cup Finals Game 5 of Florida Panthers vs. Las Vegas Golden Knights drew 2,468,000 viewers on TNT, the MLB game of New York Yankees vs. New York Mets drew 558,000 viewers on TBS, Love & Hip Hop Atlanta drew 506,000 viewers on MTV, 7 Little Johnstons drew 673,000 viewers on TLC, Real Housewives of New Jersey drew 1,245,000 viewers on Bravo, Secret Skinwalker Ranch drew 1,576,000 viewers on History Channel, Deadliest Catch drew 808,000 viewers on Discovery Channel, and Chopped drew 616,000 viewers on Food Network.

In terms of key demographic viewership, NXT had 204,000 viewers. NXT’s Males 18-34 had 62,000 viewers, Females 18-34 had 28,000 viewers, Males 35-49 had 78,000 viewers, and Females 35-49 had 36,000 viewers. Meltzer reported that the male/female viewership split was 141,000 male viewers (up 3.6&) and 64,000 female viewers (down 24.7%) for a split of 68.6% in favor of males.

In terms of yearly comparisons, NXT was down 3.9% in overall viewership but up 30.8% in key demographic viewership. Meltzer reported that NXT’s 18-34 viewership was up 116.7% compared to the same week last year.