Earlier this week, current IMPACT Wrestling Knockout Tenille Dashwood appeared on the Wilde On podcast, where she explained how she got the name Emma in WWE. Check out her comments below:
“As you know, back then…well now they [WWE] let people use their real names a lot but especially back then because of whatever copyright and all those things, so you couldn’t use your real name. So, when I first started, they said ‘give me a list of names’ and I remember I gave a list of like 20 names or something and they were like two-part names too, like I had a last name but they just went ahead and went ‘out of all of these, we’ll just take this name but without that…so, just Emma,’ and I was like oh, okay. Well, they came back with two options, it was like Emma or like Adeline was the other one and I thought, Adeline? What is that? I guess it’s a nice name but it’s not like catchy, it’s not easy to say, Adeline is easy to forget and Emma is simple, everyone will be able to say it, I’ll be able to make puns, which I did plenty of and yeah, ya know, Emma-lution and I used that to the maximum, so I just found a way to make it work.”
Dashwood competed as Emma from 2012, until 2017, and she is the first Australian female to be signed by WWE.
(H/T and transcribed by WrestleZone)
