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Carmella Should Not Have Been Called Up

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#1 ·
Her and Crews are my biggest "too soon" call ups on the roster right now. While I feel the same for Bliss, I think Carmella is the one that's truly nonsense on this roster at the moment. Here are my reasons;

1) Her character isn't completely fleshed out on her own yet. she worked well with enzo/cass (although i think they made the right call with separating them), but on her own, I don't think the crowd really gets it. Hell, I don't really get it. She's the Staten Island Princess? She looks and sounds ridiculous and at the very worst...she sounds like a heel. There's nothing about her entrance that makes me want to cheer for her. I think more time in NxT will give her an opportunity to flesh it out a bit more and see what works and what doesn't.

2) The women's division actually has a good sized roster right now, especially with Nikki back and eventually Emma and eventually the call up of Bayley, so I just don't see the need to have Carmella now. I think they got nervous with the brand split and wanting as many women as possible that they failed to realize they were actually quite fine.

3) She seems pretty green on the mic and in the ring. Something about last night's 3 v 3 match with her involved.....it felt like a step backward for the "revolution". She reminds me too much of Ashley Massaro and the match itself felt like one of those "ooooh look at all the pretty women we have" match. I don't think she's terrible in either, but the only way the Staten Island Princess character gets over is if she's a GREAT wrestler....which I don't think she is

4) NXT NEEDS SOME WOMEN TO STAY NO!? With Bayley coming up...whoooo the helll is in Nxt Now!? With no one there...what a great time to give Carmella a ton of time to work everything out...and give Asuka SOMEONE to feud with.

5) No vignettes = fans dont care. You can apply this to any of the NxT call ups of the past year (Corbin, Crews, Bliss, Enzo etc) and it's hurt all of them (except Enzo/Cass because they didn't need it..they're TOO awesome on the mic...hell they tell you every week who they are haha). But yeah the lack of vignettes and really letting the crowd know who these people are hurt them all and Carmella is no different. For HER career, if you wanted to call her up, then yeah she should've been Enzo/Cass' valet. For such an over team, the crowd would totally support her as a wrestler, and if she had enzo/cass in her corner during her matches, the crowd would DEFINITELY support her.
 
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#30 ·
She will get her footing. They rushed her into a NXT ring and she found her footing there too. She is the type who will claw her way back. She will be fine. Hell she is already better than Natalya at interacting with people and Eva in the ring. They didn't call her up too soon when she asked to not be called up at Mania because she didn't want to be just the manger of Cass and Enzo, even though you could argue she probably would be the number 4 woman on Raw had she done it with the way they book.
 
#6 ·
I think Carmella is being shown up a bit when you look at her. She's came a long way but she's not connecting particularly well and she's coming across as a bit of a try hard on the main roster, her new intro for her entrance is grating more than anything.

I hope she improves though, because she's got a lot of good qualities about her.
 
#2 ·
I don't dislike her, but she's terrible on Smackdown. The only use I can see for her is to eat pins, because there's nothing else good about her as of right now. I wish her success, but there are better ladies that the WWE needs to focus on building (Blizz, Naomi) , plus with the certified stars (Becky, Nicki) too there's just no time for Carmella.
 
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I legit feel embarrassed for her whenever she does her entrance. I remember feeling second embarrassment for her a few weeks ago when Nattie knocked her out from behind in the middle of her usual, cringey intro. Man, was that shit funny. She has no business being on the main roster in her current incarnation.
 
#23 ·
I legit feel embarrassed for her whenever she does her entrance. I remember feeling second embarrassment for her a few weeks ago when Nattie knocked her out from behind in the middle of her usual, cringey intro. Man, was that shit funny. She has no business being on the main roster in her current incarnation.
and i hate Natalya (okay i dont hate her, i just didn't like her run with charlotte), but even i marked out when she busted her ass a few weeks ago. It was such a "thank god someone shut this bitch up".

and then she went over natalya and i threw my remote.


This carmella character is a mess
 
#15 ·
She was coming into her own on NXT, the crowd began chanting her phrases and she was improving in the ring. As soon as this happens they call her up, while she was taking big steps she wasn't nearly ready. I personally thought she was on her way to becoming NXT Women's champ down the line.

They also took some steps back with her coming to SDL, there was no reason to change her entrance catchphrase. Like I stated above the NXT crowds were catching onto and it would've been easier to translate.

Ashley Massaro is a lowball tho, she's already leagues ahead of her.
 
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#16 ·
To me, Carmella is dreadful when given a mic. Her voice annoys the shit out of me.

I liked the decision of keeping her in NXT when Enzo and Cass were called up because she needed to develop herself without those two. And if they were going to call her up, they should have had her with the duo. She wouldn't have to wrestle as much on TV and it would allow her to practice more on the house shows.

Her on her own and on the main roster really exposes how much work she still has to do.
 
#18 ·
I like Carmella, I don't get all the hate for her. Maybe it's because she's attractive and it reminds guys of the girls who rejected them, I don't know.

Regardless, she should not have been called up because she didn't get a chance to establish her character in nxt in meaningful storylines. She didn't even get a single one on one match at a ppv in nxt.
 
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#37 ·
Of course she shouldn't have been called up but they wanted 2 women's divisions in the brand split and we got herself and Alexa (and Dana prior to that) brought up too early

Carmella is way better than Ashley but the problem is she was only just starting to gain momentum in nxt and she's gone. If you hadn't watched nxt, at least nxt since like 2015 you wouldn't have a clue why he acts and dresses as she does given she was associated with enzo and Cass. Of course they never make mention of that on tv

Not sure heel turn will work long term but we will see. I said nearly a year ago she should have turned heel on Bayley in nxt because they were all pals and Carmella got and lost title shot to Bayley but they kept her face. A heel turn there would have elevated her to being top heel on nxt immediately because of the betrayal..on SD she beats up Nikki for no reason and still seems positioned well behind Eva Marie or even nattie
 
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I think the size of the women's division is going ultimately depend on how they're booking this. I have a feeling that they are going to make a SmackDown women's championship and if that's the case, SmackDown has 7 women at the moment which I would say is the bare minimum for a division size. If they're going to make the WWE Women's Championship interpromotional though, then yeah they definitely didn't need to call up three women for the main roster.

At the moment there's 10 women on the NXT roster, so bigger than the Raw or SmackDown women's roster size. They just need to build up everyone not named Asuka, Bayley, and Ember Moon better. I don't think they really did a proper job building the credibility of their women on NXT besides the ones they called up, so that needs to be a priority for them now.

I'd say they should also sign Tessa Blanchard and Deonna Purrazzo since I feel they are both good, passionate, and moldable workers who have at least some name recognition in NXT due to being used as enhancement talent so often.

As for Carmella herself, I agree she shouldn't of been called up so early, I think it would of been better if they just called up Bayley in her place. I feel Alexa Bliss and Bayley were the two women ready to be called up to the main roster (well I Asuka obviously could of been brought to WWE without ever going to NXT, but she's NXT Champion atm and I feel she fits nicely in that role atm). And yeah, Carmella's character definitely needs some work. The first time I saw her Fabulous gimmick on NXT, I thought she was a heel until the crowd cheered for her, so there's obviously some changes to be made there to make her connect better as a babyface with the crowd. I found it interesting she didn't get any mic time before her match at SummerSlam since that has been pretty much as much as a staple to her character as it has been for Enzo and Cass. So maybe they are already working on some changes? Guess we'll see.

Edit: And I agree with the sentiment that really Dana Brooke is the one who got called up way too early. As for Apollo Crews, I feel he could of done more work in NXT, but I think being on the main roster is fine for him too. They just need to work on him better. I'd say give Apollo Crews time to work on his character in promos and stuff, but I it doesn't really seem like creative on the main roster really enjoys doing character work anymore. At least that's the vibe I get as a viewer.
 
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