Post by Dave on Oct 24, 2021 1:45:19 GMT -5
Name:
“The Emerald Phoenix” Emily Corlen
Character Alignment:
Face
Hometown:
Rockford, Illinois
Height & Weight:
5’8”, 145 Lbs.
Entrance Theme:
“Pretty Savage” by BLACKPINK
Real Life Influences:
- Beth Phoenix
- Triple H
- Braun Strowman
Top Signature Moves:
- The Catalyst (Glam Slam)
- Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust (Lungblower Backbreaker into Curb Stomp)
- Spiral Twister (Black Hole Slam)
- M.D.K. (Angel’s Wings)
Finishing Moves:
- Down in Flames (Pedigree)
- Foregone Conclusion (Skull Crushing Finale)
- The Faith Breaker (Brock Lock/Argentine Leglock)
Championship History:
- BWF World Champion (3)
- TGW World Champion (1)
- eWo World Champion (1)
- PWA World Champion (1)
- BWF Tag Team Champion (1; w/ Meryl Archer)
- PWA Grizzly Beer Champion (2)
- AoWF Intercontinental Champion (1)
- REBEL Pro Aggression Champion (1)
- REBEL Pro Tag Team Champion (3; 1 w/ Lisa Seldon, 1 w/ Justin Case, 1 w/ Matt Stone)
- RXW Tag Team Champion (1; w/ Matt Stone)
- eWo World Tag Team Champion (1; w/ Gabe Shelley)
- eWo Commonwealth Champion (1)
Personal History:
If you find yourself questioning why Emily Corlen’s last name sounds so familiar, that would be because she happens to be the sister of Jen Corlen, the ex-wife of well-known multi-time World Champion David Blazenwing. After Blazenwing’s short 2009 run in PWA ended, David decided to temporarily step away from the business, and after his appointed successor, Starla Gardevoir, fell injured after only one match in PWA, he went back to the drawing board. Some two hours away from his home, from Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Rockford, Illinois, Emily Corlen, Jen’s younger sister, found herself fresh out of college with nowhere to go and a (mostly) useless degree in Writing. (As popular Broadway show Avenue Q once famously asked, “What do you do with a BA in English?”) Emily, while never the most athletic or powerful, was still somewhat imposing for her frame – she certainly wasn’t a fragile little flower. After following the careers of her brother in law and her sister, she finally contacted them and showed interest in possibly being trained. David took up the cause, interested in Emily’s potential, and almost half a year later, was finally ready to unleash her upon the PWA.
Christened the “Emerald Phoenix” by Blazenwing, Emily Corlen arrived in PWA and immediately… did nothing of note. A month went by with more losses than wins, and after realizing that something needed to change or she would be out of a job, Emily went to her sister and using her connections, brought Katie James (the former Starla Gardevoir) and her sister Sarah James (Kirlia Gardevoir) into PWA. Calling themselves Bound by Blood on account of the fact that they were two sets of sisters (and they were setting out to make people bleed) suddenly, Emily was on fire! She attacked PWA Grizzly Beer Champion Marco Dante at Summer Sizzler 2010, then defeated him twice on consecutive Chaos – once in a three-way also featuring Xan Vaxman and again in a six-person tag match pitting her, Sarah and Katie against Marco and the Danger Boiz.
Emily was finally granted what she felt she deserved – a shot at Marco’s title, and one month after Bound by Blood’s formation at Summer Sizzler, Emily defeated Marco two falls to one in a Best of Three Falls match at Manitoba Mayhem to claim her first pro wrestling championship, PWA’s Grizzly Beer Title! Emily held onto the title for over a month, defending it several times before finally losing it in a brutal Triple Threat Street Fight thanks to ill-timed interference from her sister: interference that Emily would later learn was intentional, as on the next edition of Chaos, Bound by Blood turned on Emily, burying her alive and joining Simon Kalis’ Order of Chaos. Emily wasn’t seen from again until her former stablemates Katie and Sarah James lost the PWA Tag Team Titles that they earned at Lucha Libre 2010 to another set of brothers, Johnny and Ollie Maverick. Sarah was injured in the match and a week later, when Katie announced she had a new partner, Emily appeared and helped the sisters lay out Ollie. Oddly enough, after this, all three women vanished from the airwaves.
For nearly a month, Emily was not seen on PWA television, until an irate internet blog post from her in late January 2011 revealed her whereabouts; she, along with Katie, had been being denied access to PWA arenas across the globe! A week after making the blog post, the girls returned to PWA television (with the aid of David Blazenwing) and set out to confront the woman who had been supposedly barring them from Chaos, Lisa Seldon. What happened next, however, nobody saw coming, as two masked assailants charged the ring and laid Emily out, then took off their masks to reveal themselves as Jen and Sarah! Jen then went on to tell Emily that she was behind Emily being barred from PWA arenas, and Sarah was never injured, and the whole scenario was created to draw Emily back into PWA so Jen could finish her off once and for all! Katie stuck with Emily rather than siding with her sister and Jen, however, and at PWA’s Genesis XI, the two teams battled in a Loser Leaves PWA Tag Team Match. Emily and Katie won, with Katie getting the pinfall, and after the match ended, Jen revealed that the contract the girls signed only allowed whoever captured the pinfall to keep their job, meaning that Emily was fired from PWA as well!
Emily headed to REBEL Pro Wrestling next, capturing the Aggression Title for a brief period before regaining her job in PWA. Emily also joined the BWF, where she fought and defeated Gabe Shelley at WrestleFest VI to capture her first World Title, the BWF World Championship – if only for a few minutes, as Shelley won the title back in an immediate rematch minutes later. One week later, after Shelley was forced to relinquish the title due to injury, Emily claimed the vacant title as her own, saying that the BWF “deserved a World Champion who would defend the title as passionately as Gabe did”. Shelley, revealing himself later in the show as the new BWF Owner, agreed with Emily’s sentiments, officially recognizing her as the new World Champion.
On July 14, 2011, Emily married fellow AoWF wrestler Johnny Maverick in a private friends and family ceremony held at their Los Angeles estate. While Emily took Johnny’s real last name, Fitzsimmons, as her own, she decided to remain known as Emily Corlen in the wrestling ring after briefly trying out the ring name Emily Maverick.
After losing the BWF World Championship (without being pinned or submitted for it – the pitfalls of a Fatal 4 Way) to Finale at BWF Tainted Twilight, Emily went on a tear. As BWF transitioned to TGW, Emily proved she deserved a rematch for the World Title. Before she could get it, however, Finale vacated the Championship and left the company. A battle royal was held two weeks before the scheduled title match to determine who would face Emily for the vacant title at Retribution, which was won by Masakazu, the son of Simon Kalis. At Retribution, Emily and Masakazu took one another to the limit, but in the end, with a well-timed Down in Flames, Emily defeated Masa and claimed her third World Championship, becoming the first TGW World Champion of the company’s AoWF stint.
Emily would go on to hold the belt for the remainder of 2011, drawing a double count out in her first defense of the Championship in her first defense against AJ Adams before defeating him via submission to retain the title at the AoWF interfed event RPM III: Full Throttle in mid January 2012. A week later, Emily made a surprise return to REBEL Pro Wrestling, where she entered a battle royal against eight other competitors to determine new Tag Team Champions, with the sole survivor also receiving a singles shot of their choice in the company. Emily made it to the final two alongside Justin Case, crowning the duo the new REBEL Tag Champs, and then Emily eliminated Case to win the contest and lock down an additional shot of her choosing in the future.
On March 26, Emily and Case lost the REBEL Pro Tag Team Titles, and after an unsuccessful bid at the REBEL Pro World Championship a week later, Emily’s world hit rock bottom. News began to surface about an extramarital affair between herself and rival Matt Stone; an affair that was confirmed by Corlen’s husband Johnny. Amidst the chaos, Johnny faked his own death, but not before pointing all of the blame in Emily’s direction. The controversy even reached as far as TGW, where rumors of company pressure on Emily led to her vacating the TGW World Championship and leaving the company on April 23, the 200th day of her Championship reign.
With no Championships to tie her down, Emily left the AoWF on an anonymous tip that her husband was in fact still alive. Weeks went by without word from Corlen; her suspicions proved to be correct, as Johnny, under the new ringname Johnny Kennedy, resurfaced at Victory Wrestling/AoWF event Fall From Grace IX in May. Emily herself was nowhere to be seen, which begged the question… what happened to her?
The answer to that question is a complicated one. Emily traced Johnny across the country via tips, finally finding him near a desert in the western United States. She followed him into the desert, they made up, and for a few weeks, everything was as it always was. Soon enough, though, Emily began to recall why she wanted out of her marriage in the first place. After a tense, truthful and ultimately heartbreaking conversation with Johnny, Emily left him. One quick and (mostly) painless divorce later, Emily found herself once again at Matt Stone’s doorstep, unable to let go of the feelings she had developed for him in the brief time they were together.
Emily and Matt reconciled quickly and with her personal life in order once again, Corlen returned to the AoWF on June 10 as a member of the PWA roster, helping her new paramour defeat Enika Engel to become the AoWF King o’ Extreme Champion. Emily then embarked on a winning streak, culminating in her second PWA Grizzly Beer Championship victory over her own boyfriend on July 8, followed by a successful teaming with Matt one day later on July 9 to capture her third set of REBEL Pro Tag Team Titles. On Sunday, July 29, Emily capped off her amazing return by defeating Jethro Hayes and Elena Simonova in the main event of Summer Sizzler to finally capture the PWA World Championship that had eluded her twice before, making her a four time World Champion in the process.
Two months later at Manitoba Mayhem, Emily successfully defended the PWA World Championship against Elena Simonova, handing the Russian American phenom only her second loss in her career, and the following week, she teamed with Matt again, this time in PWA, to defeat Alison James of A-Squared and win the RXW Tag Team Championships. On September 26, Emily and Matt left REBEL Pro at the dawn of a pending war with indy fed Underground X, officially vacating their REBEL Pro Tag Team Titles.
At London’s Burning on November 25, Emily successfully retained her PWA World Title against Thomas Manchester Black, winning Black’s AoWF Intercontinental Title in the process. One month later at X-Mas at Ground Zero, Emily stepped into the Dome of Destruction for the second year in a row and, for the second year in a row, came up short, ultimately losing her Championship to Matt Stone, ending her reign at 147 days – tied for the second longest PWA World Title reign in history. Eight days later, on December 31, Emily’s AoWF contract came up and the buxom diva opted against re-signing a new contract, vacating her AoWF Intercontinental and RXW Tag Team Titles, and finally leaving the AoWF for good after a two and a half year run that included four reigns as World Champion.
In the following months, Emily found herself at a crossroads within the professional wrestling industry. Did she have an identity outside of the AoWF? Furthermore, COULD she? For a time, Emily seemed content to sit at home and bask in what could easily be considered a successful (if not short) career. As the itch started to return, Emily tried to go a different route; she purchased the leftover assets of the Blazenwing Wrestling Federation from her mentor and re-opened the company, reigning over the proceedings as she saw fit.
The next few years were a whirlwind. Emily dated (and eventually married) Elena Simonova’s brother, Nikolai. The three would have three children together. She would return to the ring a few times, winning titles in BWF and eWo, and eventually bringing her World Title reigns to six.
While she thrived in her professional life, things were less rosy in her personal life. After a messy divorce, Nikolai refused to wait for custody hearings and took the couple’s children in the middle of the night, returning to Russia, beyond Emily’s reach. To add to the tragedy, in early 2021, a house fire would claim the lives of Nikolai and all three children, leaving Emily despondent. She stepped down from her BWF duties and would later be hospitalized following a suicide attempt. After time spent healing (and a lot of therapy), Emily decided that even if her personal life was in tatters, she could still find some semblance of joy in her true passion, and so, when BWF returned from it’s 2021 hiatus, Corlen returned with it… but as a competitor, not a boss.
Picbase:
Beth Phoenix
Character Twitter Handle:
@emilycorlen
“The Emerald Phoenix” Emily Corlen
Character Alignment:
Face
Hometown:
Rockford, Illinois
Height & Weight:
5’8”, 145 Lbs.
Entrance Theme:
“Pretty Savage” by BLACKPINK
Real Life Influences:
- Beth Phoenix
- Triple H
- Braun Strowman
Top Signature Moves:
- The Catalyst (Glam Slam)
- Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust (Lungblower Backbreaker into Curb Stomp)
- Spiral Twister (Black Hole Slam)
- M.D.K. (Angel’s Wings)
Finishing Moves:
- Down in Flames (Pedigree)
- Foregone Conclusion (Skull Crushing Finale)
- The Faith Breaker (Brock Lock/Argentine Leglock)
Championship History:
- BWF World Champion (3)
- TGW World Champion (1)
- eWo World Champion (1)
- PWA World Champion (1)
- BWF Tag Team Champion (1; w/ Meryl Archer)
- PWA Grizzly Beer Champion (2)
- AoWF Intercontinental Champion (1)
- REBEL Pro Aggression Champion (1)
- REBEL Pro Tag Team Champion (3; 1 w/ Lisa Seldon, 1 w/ Justin Case, 1 w/ Matt Stone)
- RXW Tag Team Champion (1; w/ Matt Stone)
- eWo World Tag Team Champion (1; w/ Gabe Shelley)
- eWo Commonwealth Champion (1)
Personal History:
If you find yourself questioning why Emily Corlen’s last name sounds so familiar, that would be because she happens to be the sister of Jen Corlen, the ex-wife of well-known multi-time World Champion David Blazenwing. After Blazenwing’s short 2009 run in PWA ended, David decided to temporarily step away from the business, and after his appointed successor, Starla Gardevoir, fell injured after only one match in PWA, he went back to the drawing board. Some two hours away from his home, from Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Rockford, Illinois, Emily Corlen, Jen’s younger sister, found herself fresh out of college with nowhere to go and a (mostly) useless degree in Writing. (As popular Broadway show Avenue Q once famously asked, “What do you do with a BA in English?”) Emily, while never the most athletic or powerful, was still somewhat imposing for her frame – she certainly wasn’t a fragile little flower. After following the careers of her brother in law and her sister, she finally contacted them and showed interest in possibly being trained. David took up the cause, interested in Emily’s potential, and almost half a year later, was finally ready to unleash her upon the PWA.
Christened the “Emerald Phoenix” by Blazenwing, Emily Corlen arrived in PWA and immediately… did nothing of note. A month went by with more losses than wins, and after realizing that something needed to change or she would be out of a job, Emily went to her sister and using her connections, brought Katie James (the former Starla Gardevoir) and her sister Sarah James (Kirlia Gardevoir) into PWA. Calling themselves Bound by Blood on account of the fact that they were two sets of sisters (and they were setting out to make people bleed) suddenly, Emily was on fire! She attacked PWA Grizzly Beer Champion Marco Dante at Summer Sizzler 2010, then defeated him twice on consecutive Chaos – once in a three-way also featuring Xan Vaxman and again in a six-person tag match pitting her, Sarah and Katie against Marco and the Danger Boiz.
Emily was finally granted what she felt she deserved – a shot at Marco’s title, and one month after Bound by Blood’s formation at Summer Sizzler, Emily defeated Marco two falls to one in a Best of Three Falls match at Manitoba Mayhem to claim her first pro wrestling championship, PWA’s Grizzly Beer Title! Emily held onto the title for over a month, defending it several times before finally losing it in a brutal Triple Threat Street Fight thanks to ill-timed interference from her sister: interference that Emily would later learn was intentional, as on the next edition of Chaos, Bound by Blood turned on Emily, burying her alive and joining Simon Kalis’ Order of Chaos. Emily wasn’t seen from again until her former stablemates Katie and Sarah James lost the PWA Tag Team Titles that they earned at Lucha Libre 2010 to another set of brothers, Johnny and Ollie Maverick. Sarah was injured in the match and a week later, when Katie announced she had a new partner, Emily appeared and helped the sisters lay out Ollie. Oddly enough, after this, all three women vanished from the airwaves.
For nearly a month, Emily was not seen on PWA television, until an irate internet blog post from her in late January 2011 revealed her whereabouts; she, along with Katie, had been being denied access to PWA arenas across the globe! A week after making the blog post, the girls returned to PWA television (with the aid of David Blazenwing) and set out to confront the woman who had been supposedly barring them from Chaos, Lisa Seldon. What happened next, however, nobody saw coming, as two masked assailants charged the ring and laid Emily out, then took off their masks to reveal themselves as Jen and Sarah! Jen then went on to tell Emily that she was behind Emily being barred from PWA arenas, and Sarah was never injured, and the whole scenario was created to draw Emily back into PWA so Jen could finish her off once and for all! Katie stuck with Emily rather than siding with her sister and Jen, however, and at PWA’s Genesis XI, the two teams battled in a Loser Leaves PWA Tag Team Match. Emily and Katie won, with Katie getting the pinfall, and after the match ended, Jen revealed that the contract the girls signed only allowed whoever captured the pinfall to keep their job, meaning that Emily was fired from PWA as well!
Emily headed to REBEL Pro Wrestling next, capturing the Aggression Title for a brief period before regaining her job in PWA. Emily also joined the BWF, where she fought and defeated Gabe Shelley at WrestleFest VI to capture her first World Title, the BWF World Championship – if only for a few minutes, as Shelley won the title back in an immediate rematch minutes later. One week later, after Shelley was forced to relinquish the title due to injury, Emily claimed the vacant title as her own, saying that the BWF “deserved a World Champion who would defend the title as passionately as Gabe did”. Shelley, revealing himself later in the show as the new BWF Owner, agreed with Emily’s sentiments, officially recognizing her as the new World Champion.
On July 14, 2011, Emily married fellow AoWF wrestler Johnny Maverick in a private friends and family ceremony held at their Los Angeles estate. While Emily took Johnny’s real last name, Fitzsimmons, as her own, she decided to remain known as Emily Corlen in the wrestling ring after briefly trying out the ring name Emily Maverick.
After losing the BWF World Championship (without being pinned or submitted for it – the pitfalls of a Fatal 4 Way) to Finale at BWF Tainted Twilight, Emily went on a tear. As BWF transitioned to TGW, Emily proved she deserved a rematch for the World Title. Before she could get it, however, Finale vacated the Championship and left the company. A battle royal was held two weeks before the scheduled title match to determine who would face Emily for the vacant title at Retribution, which was won by Masakazu, the son of Simon Kalis. At Retribution, Emily and Masakazu took one another to the limit, but in the end, with a well-timed Down in Flames, Emily defeated Masa and claimed her third World Championship, becoming the first TGW World Champion of the company’s AoWF stint.
Emily would go on to hold the belt for the remainder of 2011, drawing a double count out in her first defense of the Championship in her first defense against AJ Adams before defeating him via submission to retain the title at the AoWF interfed event RPM III: Full Throttle in mid January 2012. A week later, Emily made a surprise return to REBEL Pro Wrestling, where she entered a battle royal against eight other competitors to determine new Tag Team Champions, with the sole survivor also receiving a singles shot of their choice in the company. Emily made it to the final two alongside Justin Case, crowning the duo the new REBEL Tag Champs, and then Emily eliminated Case to win the contest and lock down an additional shot of her choosing in the future.
On March 26, Emily and Case lost the REBEL Pro Tag Team Titles, and after an unsuccessful bid at the REBEL Pro World Championship a week later, Emily’s world hit rock bottom. News began to surface about an extramarital affair between herself and rival Matt Stone; an affair that was confirmed by Corlen’s husband Johnny. Amidst the chaos, Johnny faked his own death, but not before pointing all of the blame in Emily’s direction. The controversy even reached as far as TGW, where rumors of company pressure on Emily led to her vacating the TGW World Championship and leaving the company on April 23, the 200th day of her Championship reign.
With no Championships to tie her down, Emily left the AoWF on an anonymous tip that her husband was in fact still alive. Weeks went by without word from Corlen; her suspicions proved to be correct, as Johnny, under the new ringname Johnny Kennedy, resurfaced at Victory Wrestling/AoWF event Fall From Grace IX in May. Emily herself was nowhere to be seen, which begged the question… what happened to her?
The answer to that question is a complicated one. Emily traced Johnny across the country via tips, finally finding him near a desert in the western United States. She followed him into the desert, they made up, and for a few weeks, everything was as it always was. Soon enough, though, Emily began to recall why she wanted out of her marriage in the first place. After a tense, truthful and ultimately heartbreaking conversation with Johnny, Emily left him. One quick and (mostly) painless divorce later, Emily found herself once again at Matt Stone’s doorstep, unable to let go of the feelings she had developed for him in the brief time they were together.
Emily and Matt reconciled quickly and with her personal life in order once again, Corlen returned to the AoWF on June 10 as a member of the PWA roster, helping her new paramour defeat Enika Engel to become the AoWF King o’ Extreme Champion. Emily then embarked on a winning streak, culminating in her second PWA Grizzly Beer Championship victory over her own boyfriend on July 8, followed by a successful teaming with Matt one day later on July 9 to capture her third set of REBEL Pro Tag Team Titles. On Sunday, July 29, Emily capped off her amazing return by defeating Jethro Hayes and Elena Simonova in the main event of Summer Sizzler to finally capture the PWA World Championship that had eluded her twice before, making her a four time World Champion in the process.
Two months later at Manitoba Mayhem, Emily successfully defended the PWA World Championship against Elena Simonova, handing the Russian American phenom only her second loss in her career, and the following week, she teamed with Matt again, this time in PWA, to defeat Alison James of A-Squared and win the RXW Tag Team Championships. On September 26, Emily and Matt left REBEL Pro at the dawn of a pending war with indy fed Underground X, officially vacating their REBEL Pro Tag Team Titles.
At London’s Burning on November 25, Emily successfully retained her PWA World Title against Thomas Manchester Black, winning Black’s AoWF Intercontinental Title in the process. One month later at X-Mas at Ground Zero, Emily stepped into the Dome of Destruction for the second year in a row and, for the second year in a row, came up short, ultimately losing her Championship to Matt Stone, ending her reign at 147 days – tied for the second longest PWA World Title reign in history. Eight days later, on December 31, Emily’s AoWF contract came up and the buxom diva opted against re-signing a new contract, vacating her AoWF Intercontinental and RXW Tag Team Titles, and finally leaving the AoWF for good after a two and a half year run that included four reigns as World Champion.
In the following months, Emily found herself at a crossroads within the professional wrestling industry. Did she have an identity outside of the AoWF? Furthermore, COULD she? For a time, Emily seemed content to sit at home and bask in what could easily be considered a successful (if not short) career. As the itch started to return, Emily tried to go a different route; she purchased the leftover assets of the Blazenwing Wrestling Federation from her mentor and re-opened the company, reigning over the proceedings as she saw fit.
The next few years were a whirlwind. Emily dated (and eventually married) Elena Simonova’s brother, Nikolai. The three would have three children together. She would return to the ring a few times, winning titles in BWF and eWo, and eventually bringing her World Title reigns to six.
While she thrived in her professional life, things were less rosy in her personal life. After a messy divorce, Nikolai refused to wait for custody hearings and took the couple’s children in the middle of the night, returning to Russia, beyond Emily’s reach. To add to the tragedy, in early 2021, a house fire would claim the lives of Nikolai and all three children, leaving Emily despondent. She stepped down from her BWF duties and would later be hospitalized following a suicide attempt. After time spent healing (and a lot of therapy), Emily decided that even if her personal life was in tatters, she could still find some semblance of joy in her true passion, and so, when BWF returned from it’s 2021 hiatus, Corlen returned with it… but as a competitor, not a boss.
Picbase:
Beth Phoenix
Character Twitter Handle:
@emilycorlen
