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Why shouldn't they release Emmalina?

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#1 ·
Serious…. if the rumors are true, she wasn't comfortable playing this character and couldn't pull it off. So… why is she given another chance? Why waste so much time investing in this character when the person playing the role can't cut it? It doesn't seem fair to me that she is given another chance to go back to her original heel character. It looks bad from a storyline perspective and it makes HER look bad as an inadequate wrestler.

It's not like the Emmalina gimmick is something intricate or deep. Eva, Dana, Summer and pretty much any diva with the model look could pull it off. So why can't she?

Usually people as low on the card as Emma aren't given second or third chances so someone backstage has gotta be pulling for her. She had the potential to be a huge star with this gimmick (Evil Emma was never treated like a big deal) and now she's going to go back to being one of the jobbers of the division and amount to nothing. Maybe I'm wrong but I'll say 85% chance that is what will happen with her when she gets inserted back into the division.

 
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#3 ·
Or, you know, maybe stick with the character that she was playing that was working instead of trying to fit a square peg into a round hole and make her something she’s not.

If she couldn’t play the character they wanted, then realize that at the beginning instead of wasting 4 months of her career. It’s the company’s job to exploit strengths and hide weaknesses.
 
#11 ·
That's how you do wrestling. You try a gimmick and if it works, great, if it doesn't, you ditch it and try something else. If they just released everyone who couldn't get a gimmick over then half the company would get fired. Are you also saying The Rock should have been released in 1997 because he utterly and completely bombed as Rocky Maivia? Or Steve Austin as The Ringmaster? Of course not.
 
#31 · (Edited by Moderator)
There is a fundamental difference between trying a gimmick that was built for you and if it doesn't work.. ok... and them building a character for you, running *4 MONTHS* worth of TV vignettes for it, and ultimately being unable to play it to the point that they'll save it for someone with talent.

That's on her and NOBODY ELSE.

They'll save it for someone who can work. Stop being a fanboi, she's gone. You don't fall on your face like that and get another go. She's damaged goods as a result of the vignettes. This car wreck is going to end with her release in the next purge.

Her only hope is that she dreams a character up and fast and convinces Vince to let her do it. That's really the only way she'll survive the next purge. They aren't going to spend another dime on her development after she proved herself incompetent. Too much Sports and not enough Entertainment.

- She's talented.
At what? Even her cooking YouTube show is about as interesting as watching paint dry.

- She's gorgeous.
And? A lot of women in this world are gorgeous.. doesn't mean they can pull off a wrestling gimmick.

- Emmalina was a fucking stupid idea anyways.
So was Goldust. So was wearing polka dots by Dusty. Both Dustin and Dusty got both of those characters over. They actually had talent, though.

I think these three points pretty much sum up why she shouldn't be released.
The sum equaling 0 of course.

Look.. I get it.. you see her body and think they should keep hot chicks on the roster just because. Sorry... it doesn't work that way. You have to have actual entertainment talent along with the wrestling to survive in the WWE.

And just for the record, I've always wanted to see her do well and catch on. But at some point you have to cut bait and failing to gimmick for a gimmick with 4 months of TV vignettes invested in it, really is a career-killer.
 
#5 ·
Poor Emma. Her career feels like purgatory. I love Alexa, but she shouldn't be a two-time champion. La Luchadora should have been Emma, giving a red herring with Emmalina promos. She should have won the Smackdown Women's Championship in a triple threat with Alexa and Becky. Mickie would make the save for Becky.

I dunno. Outside of finances, it would be to her benefit to be released
 
#6 ·
Poor Emma. Her career feels like purgatory. I love Alexa, but she shouldn't be a two-time champion. La Luchadora should have been Emma, giving a red herring with Emmalina promos. She should have won the Smackdown Women's Championship in a triple threat with Alexa and Becky. Mickie would make the save for Becky.
This is what they should've done with Emma instead of just pretty much dicking around with her.
 
#18 ·
I agree 100%...Emma is nowhere near the worst, she is a great wrestler she just needs the right gimmick for her and one the fans can get invested in...the months of teasing vignettes just to have it flop has done no one any favours, especially Emma

That "dancing" alone annoyed me enough to want her fired.
The "dance" was so ridiculous...if they bring it back then i agree LoL
 
#34 · (Edited)
Because it's not Emma's fault that WWE gave her a shitty gimmick when her evil emma gimmick was fine on its own.

If anyone should be fired its the people who dumped this idea on her to begin with. I don't blame Emma one bit. It's sucks that Emma and Summer Rae (two really talented women) are in this position where WWe are just clueless on what they can do. Someone should tell WWE to go and watch their NxT stuff, because it seems people forget how talented they can be.
 
#15 ·
And the thing with her original heel character is she wasn't any good then either. Dana Brooke carried a Emma from a heel work, character, and promo perspective while Emma carried her in ringwork. That's why that partnership worked so well, they covered up each other's flaws.

But if WWE is going to get right behind this Womens Revolution and push women like Bayley, Sasha, etc then Emma deserves a chance to be pushed like that as well.
 
#23 ·
And the thing with her original heel character is she wasn't any good then either. Dana Brooke carried a Emma from a heel work, character, and promo perspective while Emma carried her in ringwork. That's why that partnership worked so well, they covered up each other's flaws.

But if WWE is going to get right behind this Womens Revolution and push women like Bayley, Sasha, etc then Emma deserves a chance to be pushed like that as well.
Oh my god, I'm glad someone else sees this. People have been raving about her heel work but all she did was put on sunglasses and start pointing to herself. Dana certainly carried the load.
 
#17 ·
Hold her off until paige returns. Have them both form a stable as the original girls and have them bury Bayley and sasha. Helps both of them and also pushes the NXT storyline for the upcoming movie.
 
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#30 ·
Yeah, the only difference being is that Paige is over, and now the Rock is making a movie on her. It would be a bad idea financially for the WWE to release Paige now, even if they want to.

If Emmalina got released, nobody would really even notice since she's never on TV.
 
#38 ·
If you go by that logic then guys like Austin & Rock should have been released early on in their careers :draper2

You can't blame the superstar for being forced into a gimmick that they themselves are not comfortable with and find it difficult to pull off. It's up to the superstar and the company to find something that works for both parties. In the case of Emma the WWE shouldn't have hyped her appearance before they even knew if she could pull off the role, that is 100% their fault. It was even more their fault because they took a gimmick that actually worked for her and decided to fuck with it.
 
#39 · (Edited)
People like Tailhook have this narrow belief you should be able to work with whatever WWE gives you and if you can't then you need to be future endeavored. For people like him, it's never their fault when something doesn't work. She already had a gimmick that was fine but never got a chance on the main roster because she got injured during her feud with Becky. Instead of having her come back as she was and teaming her back with Dana they thought it would be better to give her this crap gimmick of a model when she is not the model type. The fact that they knew this woman wasn't feeling the gimmick 4 months ago and still went with the debut shows more fault on creative than on her.

Serious…. if the rumors are true, she wasn't comfortable playing this character and couldn't pull it off. So… why is she given another chance? Why waste so much time investing in this character when the person playing the role can't cut it? It doesn't seem fair to me that she is given another chance to go back to her original heel character. It looks bad from a storyline perspective and it makes HER look bad as an inadequate wrestler.

It's not like the Emmalina gimmick is something intricate or deep. Eva, Dana, Summer and pretty much any diva with the model look could pull it off. So why can't she?

Usually people as low on the card as Emma aren't given second or third chances so someone backstage has gotta be pulling for her. She had the potential to be a huge star with this gimmick (Evil Emma was never treated like a big deal) and now she's going to go back to being one of the jobbers of the division and amount to nothing. Maybe I'm wrong but I'll say 85% chance that is what will happen with her when she gets inserted back into the division.

The fact that you think Dana could have pulled off this gimmick nullifies anything else you have to say about this issue. Dana isn't built like a model AT ALL!!!!!!!! She is built like the type of woman who beats up models. Nah women like Summer or Eva should have this type of gimmick. Not Dana or Emma.
 
#40 ·
People like Tailhook have this narrow belief you should be able to work with whatever WWE gives you and if you can't then you need to be future endeavored. For people like him, it's never their fault when something doesn't work. She already had a gimmick that was fine but never got a chance on the main roster because she got injured during her feud with Becky. Instead of having her come back as she was and teaming her back with Dana they thought it would be better to give her this crap gimmick of a model when she is not the model type. The fact that they knew this woman wasn't feeling the gimmick 4 months ago and still went with the debut shows more fault on creative than on her.
But 4 months is more than enough time for her to prepare and train herself into said role. If at that point, she still is not committed then it speaks more about her abilities or lack thereof than the writers. So he has a point in this instance. If she cannot work with what she's given (or refused if rumor be true) then what makes you think she can handle a substantially bigger role? That character precisely was an opportunity for her to prove her worth and she didn't take it, and now she's back to square one.
 
#10 ·
I just feel like something is going on we do not know about. I mean if she did not like the character from the start, why did they start going in that direction? Is it possible they told her it would be one thing, started the teasers and then told her it would be something different and she was not happy with the new direction? Or is this a Brodus Clay thing where they started to tease the appearance only to realize people in creative had no real idea where to go with it or they had two or more directions they thought they were going in and no one could decide which was the right way. I mean it just seems weird and like with Brodus I do not think the blame falls on the wrestler.
 
#12 ·
I don't understand the concept of "contracted jobbers" though. There's an indy in every city they visit that can supply a jobber to every show and at a fraction of the cost of whatever Emmas (or any of their contracted jobbers) contract is yearly. They could go the route of paying Emma a very, VERY low salary comparable to those local jobbers but that would just be dumb on Emmas part (or anyones) to accept it.
 
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