So Emma

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That was a rough debut. I get they want to build on the whole dance thing, but wrong town, and especially wrong segment.


Looks like Emmalution is already a tad stalled.

[Sparkybob]

It's hard to debut a diva in a wrestling match when she isn't so freaking strong (Kharma) or does a ton of flippy stuff, so this segment was probably the best thing to debut her. Just fell flat this week.

[Rican]

Yeah that was pretty bad. I don't watch NXT so I don't really get what the gimmick or the appeal is.

[Captain2]

Still, I was marking out like Matt Striker seeing her actually make a debut.

[Harry The Arrow was Wrong!]

At least she kept her theme song

[Crappler El 0 M]

It didn't come off well. The Emmalution is getting off to a slow start.

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She'll get over. With repetition she'll win over the crowds. When she debuted the dance on NXT everyone had a deer in the headlights look for weeks

[Mayonnaise]

Thought it was interesting and was surprised there was a brief Emma chant after Santino chose her. They are going to have to do better in the future though.

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I wouldn't be surprised if they send her back to NXT and pretend that never happened after that rough debut.

It's going to be like that for most of the NXT debuts though, as a lot of the stuff that is getting over in that intimate environment by fans that cheer most anything isn't going to be the same on the main roster.

[Beast Army Ass]

I felt bad but the segment just sucked. It's a shame since supposedly she's really good in the ring and cute too. Don't really watch nxt but her gimmick there is more than just that dance, right? From what I saw I gifs it seems like she was more like on ecstasy or something as opposed to just "har har she dances funny" and due to having a GASP, somewhat complex character she got over. Just watering it down to "bad dancer" and tossing her out into that crap segment isn't going to be doing her any favors, that's for sure. I wish her luck to hopefully spin that shit into gold.

Why not just build off of nxt? She does the crap in the crowd one week, fandango loses, summer is pissed, she sees Emma then smacks the hell out of her, they have a match, and then she's on the main stage. Build the dancing gimmick from there. I will say one thing, this probably has me the most talkative I've been on here in a while. I'd say she has a fan.

[Perd]

Eh, it's Omaha. They think Kevin Bacon is the villain in Footloose.

[xCompackx]

To be fair, the crowd was meh and to be honest, Santino isn't the best guy to help debut someone.

[The Trashman]

This is all I thought of when I saw it.

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Feb 3, 2014 23:11:10 GMT -5 Rican said:

Yeah that was pretty bad. I don't watch NXT so I don't really get what the gimmick or the appeal is.

Here's the deal...she debuted on NXT as a heel. The dance wasn't her whole gimmick, more that she's so self-absorbed and weird that she thinks her dancing is awesome. She was really clumsy and spaced out, had trouble even getting in the ring. I thought she was originally supposed to be a teenager rolling on MDMA or somewhere on the Autism or Aspergers scale, I don't know about that but that's what she was like. But then, being the NXT fans, the crowd cheered for her because it was so outlandish and funny. So she kept the dance, stayed kind of whacked out and oblivious, but turned face and lost some of that character. And being WWE - main roster edition, her entire persona is now boiled down to a hashtag and the stupid dance. They're putting the cart before the horse, they're thinking "oh the dance is silly! like Fandango'ing! And that did...wonders for Fandango! Let's roll with this!" And it's not going to work, at all.

[Rican]

Feb 3, 2014 23:23:12 GMT -5 @lovehater said:

Feb 3, 2014 23:11:10 GMT -5 Rican said:

Yeah that was pretty bad. I don't watch NXT so I don't really get what the gimmick or the appeal is.

Here's the deal...she debuted on NXT as a heel. The dance wasn't her whole gimmick, more that she's so self-absorbed and weird that she thinks her dancing is awesome. She was really clumsy and spaced out, had trouble even getting in the ring. I thought she was originally supposed to be a teenager rolling on MDMA or somewhere on the Autism or Aspergers scale, I don't know about that but that's what she was like. But then, being the NXT fans, the crowd cheered for her because it was so outlandish and funny. So she kept the dance, stayed kind of whacked out and oblivious, but turned face and lost some of that character. And being WWE - main roster edition, her entire persona is now boiled down to a hashtag and the stupid dance. They're putting the cart before the horse, they're thinking "oh the dance is silly! like Fandango'ing! And that did...wonders for Fandango! Let's roll with this!" And it's not going to work, at all.

Ah ok, thanks. The original character as you described sounds interesting. But yeah, just the weird dancing part I'm not crazy about.

[bootytea]

All of that build up for that. Wow.

It was such an awkward moment and I was genuinely surprised that the audience did not vote for Summer Rae.

So poorly done and it does not help that Emma does not have a unique look at all and could easily be replaced by some blonde without many people noticing.

[BigJerichool222]

God bless Santino; he tried SO DAMN hard to make the crowd care, albeit shouting things like THIS IS SO AWESOME and THIS IS SUCH FUN TO DO over and over to a DEAD crowd, which will never work.

[Brandon Walsh is Insane.]

She wouldn't have gotten a response without Santino, but the dance thing... was a Trump/Rosie moment for me where I questioned why I was watching.

[JTG Fan]

Poor Emma, Nebraska has no love for quirky dancing Australians.

[Indiana Miz]

I can already tell the commentators are going to make me hate seeing Emma.