Emily Corlen
AKA: The Emerald Phoenix, The Standard Bearer of TGW
Height & Weight: 5’6″ 140lbs.
Hometown: Rockford, Illinois(Born) Los Angeles, California(Resides)
Entrance Music: “Paid My Dues” by Anastacia
Style: ???
Five Favorite Moves:
- The Skullcracker (Chick Kick)
- Seventh Heaven (Two-handed Chokeslam)
- Spiral Twister (Black Hole Slam)
- Crimson Plunge (Powerbomb into Facebuster)
- Rolling Thunder (Three Rolling German Suplexes into a bridged pin)
Finishers: 1.) Down in Flames, 2.) The Catalyst, 3.) The Faith Breaker
Finishers Descriptions: 1.) Pedigree, 2.) Glam Slam, 3.) Argentine Leg Lock(ONLY used to win matches)
BIO: 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 wife of PWA star and 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 found herself down and out – Jen’s younger sister, 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. Christening her the “Emerald Phoenix” (not to be confused with PWA’s other Phoenix, Rob Robinson!), 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.
She 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 singles shot of her choosing in the future.
Appearance: Beth Phoenix as pic base.
Accomplishments:
*REBEL Pro Aggression Champion
*REBEL Pro Tag Team Champion (x2, w/Lisa Seldon, w/Justin Case)
