Former WWE Smackdown Women’s Champion Carmella recently talked about her new gimmick and how she adapted it. Carmella went through a gimmick change recently and she has adapted her new gimmick pretty quickly and excellently.
Carmella started her WWE career from 2013 and she has been one of the fewest wrestlers in WWE who did not have a change of brand. From the very first day of the brand split, she is with SmackDown and it has been five years since she is working in the blue side of WWE.
Carmella Speaks On Her Gimmick Change
She made her main roster debut during the second brand split of WWE in 2016 as one of the six women wrestlers of Smackdown. Since then she won WWE SmackDown Women’s Championship and two WWE Money in the Bank. She won the inaugural Women’s Money in the Bank ladder match.
As the first money in the bank ladder match had some controversies as Carmella’s partner James Ellsworth grabbed the Money in the Bank Briefcase for her, WWE reorganized the match the very next week on SmackDown which was won by Carmella again, and this time she won it by herself.
Recently Carmella spoke to Ryan Satin’s Out of Character podcast where she talked about her new gimmick and how she adapted it. She said;
“When I was sitting at home, there was no rhyme or reason. It was just, ‘we don’t have anything for you right now. Stay at home until we have a good story.’ Cool.
“They said my character needed a ‘fresh coat of paint’ and at first I’m like, ‘I love my character and don’t want to change.’ Then I thought it was a good thing to change and show some growth. If I was going to have a new character, I wanted something that would resonate and something I would feel. I made vignettes at home, hired people, created them, and sent them to WWE. They were like, ‘this is great, we love it, this is what we’re going to do.’ I thought keeping the Princess of Staten Island and, for the lack of a better term, make her the Queen.
“I know I’m not the Queen, Charlotte is the Queen, don’t get me wrong. Just (making Carmella) grown up a little and embracing that. That’s what we did. The videos I made were a lot different than the vignettes that ended up being out there but things always end up getting changed. That’s fine. You just take it and do with it what you will and make the most of it.
“I just knew I wanted to return and make a statement. That’s what I did. I had an idea for a new entrance and I wanted to be different. I loved my old entrance song so at first, it felt weird to not be excited and moonwalking, but I wanted to do something different so I ripped off an old Madonna video. I was doing the same character for seven years but it’s still part of me and part of Carmella, you just have to grow up a little sometimes.”
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