The WWE Is Ruining... Carmella

As a pro wrestling fan, it is a part of our identity to always know how to utilize wrestlers better than the WWE. If WWE would just give me, random WWE fan, a job a the company, ratings would immediately rise to the levels of the Monday Night Wars, despite how television ratings have changed as a whole over the last 20 years. But until that happens, WWE will continue ruining our favorite wrestlers, and that is why it is time to point out the error in their ways. Because of WWE's incompetence, I am literally going to pick a wrestler at random and point out how they could be better utilized, because WWE is ruining everyone in one way or another.

Today, it is time to get F-A-B-U-L-O-U-S, yes! It's time to talk about Carmella.

Carmella is (kayfabe) a hairdresser who was friends with Enzo Amore and Colin Cassady. She quickly lost her hairdressing job because of their antics, and luckily found out that she could be a good professional wrestler. Well, good is relative as she came out on the short side of things in her feud against Eva Marie.

Still, she got promoted along with a couple of bozos that are no longer in the professional wrestling world. Even when she made her Smackdown debut, she was interrupted by the more important Eva Marie.

But even though she wasn't good at pinning opponents, she was good at climbing ladders. Well, kind of. She did win the inaugural Women's Money in the Bank match, but it was only because of James Ellsworth actually climbed the ladder and grabbed the contract for her. It was a terrible decision by the WWE, so then they just redid the match and had Carmella climb the ladder instead of Ellsworth.
Throughout her early career, her most important moments involved Enzo, Big Cass, Eva Marie, and James Ellsworth. You would be hard pressed to find a group of four worse superstars.

Luckily, things turned around for Carmella when she actually cashed in her Money in the Bank briefcase since it was brought on by an attack on Charlotte Flair by the IIconics. She then got to have maybe the greatest stretch for any woman in the WWE history. She beat the unbeatable Charlotte Flair, and then beat the unbeatable Asuka in back-to-back feuds. And she beat them multiple times. So unless somebody beats Ronda Rousey and Becky Lynch consecutively, that stretch may never be topped.

But of course even that was filled with stupid bullshit as she beat Asuka by James Ellsworth confusing Asuka with cosplay which made about as much sense as...eh, actually it makes about as much sense as most of WWE's storylines.

She did eventually lose her title in a triple threat match to Charlotte Flair, and then teamed up with the one person who was continually challenging her to matches, R-Truth. This was probably my favorite part of Carmella's run as everyone kept beating Carmella to get title chances, so R-Truth rightfully believed that he should challenge Carmella for a title opportunity. But instead of going against each other, they teamed up and won the Mixed Match Challenge that was hilariously compromised by injuries to nearly every team in the tournament. But hey, a win's a win.

After that, she teamed up with Naomi to create a team, because they needed 12 ladies for the first ever women's tag title elimination chamber match. And that's where we are at today.

Honestly, Carmella is an underrated talent. She has improved greatly in the ring, and she has shown the versatility to be a babyface or a heel. She's a good all-around talent but doesn't stand out in any one area. It's a tough spot to be in, because there is so much talent on the WWE women's roster currently. I think the WWE has done a very good job with her so far, although I do think her long title reign stagnated the division a bit. Still, she has talent and charisma but is a woman who would greatly benefit from a secondary title as opposed to a top title.

Carmella is someone who is better when paired with others. Her best push came with Enzo and Big Cass, and her most important push came with James Ellsworth. Hell, her most fun push came with R-Truth. So I searched high, and I searched low, and the perfect people to pair her with are Tyler Breeze and Fandango. She dances and is fashionable, and I'm going to guess that she loves to solve a good mystery. Carmella isn't a killer in the ring, but she does have charisma, so gear towards that and just keep her as a fun part of the women's division. An Intercontinental Tile (or equivalent) has to be in the works, and she should definitely see herself in that picture, because Carmella is F-A-B-U-L-O-U-S.

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