Young, Emma, and Summer.
Over the weekend WWE released Darren Young, Emma, and Summer Rae, three wrestlers who I think had a lot of untapped potential. To better remember them, I drew my favorite version of each of the wrestlers from their WWE career:
Darren Young from the original version of NXT. CM Punk was so grumpy and Darren Young was so positive that it was a fun pairing. I was also probably the only person who liked his Bob Backlund mentorship, but I wanted to draw CM Grump more than crazy ol’ Bob.
Emma when she turned heel in NXT. She came across as such a tough badass and her pairing with Dana Brooke was just perfect! I think the whole “Emmalina” rebranding debacle really hurt her stock with fans, but she did such great job changing from her original bubble popping character I think she eventually could have recovered.
Summer Rae when she was briefly acting as Rusev’s valet. I’ll always think of Rusev as “RuRu” after this. Rae really made the most out of her summer romance with Rusev and it’s too bad the angle was dropped so quickly.
Wait, in the original version of NXT, CM Punk was Darren Young’s mentor ?
Yes. Though it was clear that Punk didn’t give a damn. Also it was overshadowed by Miz mentoring Bryan, and Jericho mentoring Barrett.
Yep, Punk was pretty funny with his open disdain for the whole show. It was during Punk’s Straight Edge Society days.
Pretty much all of NXT was some great foreshadowing that we didn’t catch on to.
I’ve always wondered how Summer Rae would be as a face. She did good heel work, don’t get me wrong, but she had another side to her we only got to see on Network shows like Swerved and such that I’ve always been curious to see expanded upon, yet never really was.
Summer Rae almost looks human in that drawing.