WWE SmackDown star and a former two times Impact Knockouts Tag Team Champion Tenille Dashwood who is currently going by the name of Emma recently talked about her famous dance move and revealed how she came up with it in the NXT.
Tenille Dashwood Emma is an Australian professional wrestler who started her WWE career back in 2011 after spending eight years on the independent circuit of Australia. In WWE she first worked on the Florida Championship Wrestling which was the development territory of the promotion back then and later she worked on the NXT after WWE shifted their development territory to the NXT.
Emma Discusses How She Came Up With Her Dance Move In NXT
Dashwood became extremely famous because of her awkward dance move that she invented during her NXT run. She kept on doing the dance move throughout her NXT career and even after transitioning to the main roster in 2014 she kept on doing the dance move. It kept her popularity on the main roster fans as well.
However, after WWE attempted to change her gimmick to Emmalina and failed she never did her dance move again. Recently she made her return to WWE Friday Night SmackDown as a babyface and we have not seen doing her the famous move. It looks like her dance move is over for good and she will never do that ever again.
Tenille Dashwood who is currently going by the name of Emma recently spoke to Ryan Satin’s Out of Character podcast where she talked about her famous dance move and revealed how she came up with it in the NXT. She said;
“The real story behind that is — this is back in the day before NXT when we were at FCW back in Tampa — and at the time Dusty Rhodes was there and one of the big helpers in that creative department was Byron Saxton.
“We had selected this music and I heard this music and [I had] gone, ‘That’s kind of weird, but maybe cool? It’s almost sort of alien-like, but whatever, let’s go with that music … but what do I do though? Because that’s kind of a weird song.’ Byron was the one that was kind of like, ‘Maybe do something with your arms?’”
“It was basically Byron and I walking around the room doing these kind of weird arm things” that inspired the dance. “His was more of an Egyptian dance and I was a little more loose with it, a little more obnoxious with it,” she said with a laugh. “It was so ridiculous and horrible, and I was so dedicated to this dance, that people just wanted to be part of it.”
Quotes via Wrestling Inc