Ember Moon Is An Eclipse To Be Reckoned With On NXT

Yo, if you grew up with wrestling, whether it was in the 80’s, 90’s or present day, there’s that tradition you go through of getting put in a submission or hit with a flying elbow. That’s what wrasslin’ does to you, man. It puts you right in the thick of it. My grandmother was a fan of wrestling and she’d be swinging her arms like she was punching right along with the likes of Dusty Rhodes or Junkyard Dawg. My mom told me ’bout how she knocked her daughter off the couch in excitement once, you know that feeling, fam. That’s when you’re in the pure fan zone and can’t be held accountable for your actions. I grew up with wrestling, but comic books and anime overtook me and wrestling became the fandom I came back to every so often to check on. There’s no feeling like watching two competitors enter into the squared circle to tell a story through a myriad of maneuvers in order to come out on top for a victory. You think you’ve seen everything under the sun until that shit gets eclipsed by a wrestler coming and raising the bar to another level. A friend of the site Donald Donaghue was telling us about one such eclipse that arrived in WWE’s NXT development camp that goes by the name of Ember Moon. Formerly Athena on the independent wrestling come up (Reality of Wrestling, Shimmer Women Athlete’s, Women Superstars Uncensored) Adrienne Reese made her NXT debut at NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn II on August 20 for her Ember Moon persona. I had to go back in the archives of the internet on that …

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