So, I kinda went down a rabbit hole recently, focusing on Emma from WWE. It wasn’t like some big research project, more like me just deciding to really track her journey through the company, piece by piece, based on what I could actually find and watch myself.
Getting Started
It started pretty randomly. I think I saw an old clip or maybe heard some chatter online, and it just got me thinking about her whole WWE run. I remembered bits and pieces, the dancing, then the sunglasses, but it felt fuzzy. So, I thought, okay, let’s actually sit down and try to watch her stuff chronologically, see how it played out from my couch.
The Process – Digging Through Stuff
First thing I did was fire up the WWE Network, or Peacock, whatever it is now. Just started searching her name. Then I realized that wasn’t enough, gotta go broader.
- I started digging back into old NXT episodes first. That’s where I remembered her starting to make waves. Watched those early matches, the stuff with Paige.
- Then I moved onto her main roster debut. Remembered the bubbles, the dancing with Santino. Tried finding those specific Raws and Smackdowns.
- Had to track down that whole weird Emmalina thing. Man, that was short-lived. Mostly involved watching vignettes and then trying to find the one or two appearances.
- Then I focused on finding the shift to the “Evil Emma” gimmick, with the sunglasses and different attitude. That meant searching later Raw episodes and PPV pre-shows.
- I even tried looking for some clips or mentions from her time away from WWE, just to get the full picture of her career breaks and returns.
It took a surprising amount of time, jumping between years, trying to remember which shows had which matches. Sometimes I’d just scrub through episodes hoping to spot her.
What I Noticed
Watching it all unfold like that, even just through the scattered bits I could find, was interesting. You really see the shifts. The initial NXT run had a certain energy. Then the main roster debut felt… well, it felt like a main roster debut, kinda packaged differently. The Emmalina phase was just baffling, honestly. Felt like a total stall. What really stood out to me was the later phase, the darker gimmick. Seemed like she found a better groove there, the matches felt more solid to me personally. But then, that also seemed to fizzle out before she left initially.
It also made me realize how much depends on things outside the ring – the booking, the character direction. You could see the talent was there, but the journey was all over the place.
Final Thoughts
So yeah, that was my little “Emma project”. Just me, the streaming service, and a lot of skipping through old wrestling shows. It wasn’t about becoming an expert, just satisfying my own curiosity by actually watching the progression, or lack thereof sometimes. It definitely makes you appreciate how tough it must be for performers to navigate that whole system. You see glimpses of what could be, then things change on a dime. It was just an interesting exercise for me, seeing that journey firsthand from the footage available.
