YMMV / Jacqueline

• Best Known for the Fanservice:
  • For a while she was mainly known as "that black Diva with the massive breasts" and her many wardrobe malfunctions. Showing that it's possible for female wrestlers to transcend this, she had a respectable run in TNA and eventually got inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame - so her ring achievements are far more remembered than her Fanservice.
  • She does feel the effects of this for one specific event. The 1998 Fully Loaded PPV is remembered entirely for the bikini contest she had against Sable - where the latter showed off hand-print pasties on her breasts.
  • And the 1998 Capital Carnage PPV is mostly forgotten, except for Jacqueline getting her top ripped off, becoming the first Diva to bare her breasts on WWE TV. Though as it was a UK-exclusive show, it's not as well-known as other examples.
• Character Rerailment: After being basically a Faux Action Girl due to Sable's refusal to bump, the 1999 and 2000 period allowed Jacqueline to remind people she could actually wrestle. She won the Women's Title again, and competed in several intergender matches.
• Critical Dissonance: She never connected with the crowd outside of the South Eastern US (basically NWA's Florida Territory, WCW, USWA and TNA) but is one of the most respected women wrestlers ever among Smart Marks.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Her beating the crap out of "The Taskmaster" Kevin Sullivan's Jobber opponents got her very over with the fans in WCW.
• Funny Moments:
  • One 2000 backstage segment had Ivory asking Debra to give her a title shot against Lita. Jackie pops in and says "If you're gonna give Ivory a shot, why don't you give ebony one too?"
  • In a hardcore match between Ivory and Tori, they brawl into the bathroom. A naked Jacqueline pokes her head from the shower to ask what's going on.
  • During Maven's WWE Tough Enough audition, he finishes his promo by winking at Jackie. Her reaction is priceless.
• Harsher in Hindsight: On the March 10, 1997 Nitro, Sullivan faced African-American jobber Hardbody Harrison. As per Sullivan's usual at the time, he threw Harrison out to the floor so Jackie could kick his ass, with the commentators putting her over huge. In 2007, Harrison would be sentenced to life in prison for sex-trafficking, thus making the sight of a woman beating him up particularly satisfying.
• Heartwarming in Hindsight:
  • She wrestled a couple of matches against then-rookie Gail Kim in 2003. There Jackie was the face and Gail the heel. Fast forward to 2007 in TNA, and the two of them have a feud that puts women's wrestling on the map in that company.
  • This article written in 2015 says that Jacqueline "will surely be in the Hall of Fame someday". Jackie was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame the very next year.
• Memetic Badass: Early in her career, she once finished a match after separating her shoulder. Likewise every WWE Diva she worked with talked up how stiff and aggressive she was in the ring.
• Narm:
  • A couple of her promos, specifically the one before Armageddon 1999 - "I already kicked your ass in the Gravy Bowl Match". Her putdown to Ivory "shut up, big mouth" wasn't much of anything either.
  • From the February 3, 1997 WCW Monday Nitro: You know the Jim Ross quote on the LampshadeHanging/ProfessionalWrestling page about keeping weapons under the ring? Well, whoever was supposed to do that didn't do his or her job on this night. During the Konnan vs. Chris Benoit match^note This was during Benoit's feud with the Dungeon of Doom. Konnan officially turned NWO in July., Jacqueline came to the ring with a leather belt. Benoit saw her and threw Konnan out of the ring, getting disqualified.^note At the time, WCW still used the old NWA rule about throwing your opponent over the top rope being a DQ. Benoit took the belt from her and Jackie looked under the ring for a weapon and all she could come up with was a plastic water bottle.
• Narm Charm: The delightful backstage segment where she catches Victoria sniffing her tights. The Narm Charm comes when the segment was edited into a video package for a match. "Hey, that's my outfit!" jump cuts straight to "you psycho bitch!"
• Tainted by the Preview: When LLF opened in 2000, its promoter had reservations against bringing in women from the USA (or Canada) because all he saw were the "divas" in the WWF having five minute matches. A new enterprise in Monterrey couldn't afford to present anything other than gruelling multiple fall matches. Rival promoters choking him out of talent made him more open to signing names North of the border, and Jacqueline did just fine.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
  • Smart Marks felt that Jacqueline could have had a longer reign as Cruiserweight Champion, since she certainly had the wrestling skills to believably hold her own in the ring with most of the roster.
  • Jacqueline and Chyna never got to feud or even have a match. During Chyna's time in the women's division, critics noted that Jacqueline was one of the few Divas who could be believably pushed against her. Chyna left WWE before anything could happen though.
  • Her return to TNA, targeting Velvet Sky with ODB, had both of them officially being granted contracts...and they did nothing of note. ODB got something of a storyline with Eric Young, but Jacqueline vanished from television apart from the occasional one-off appearance.
  • Although she got the occasional title match in the 2002-2003 period, she was never pushed in a meaningful capacity. WWE favoured Trish Stratus and Lita as the top face, and Jazz and Molly Holly as the top heels - so Jackie mostly appeared in tag team matches or as the other one in triple threats or Fatal 4 Ways.
• Vindicated by History: Her second Women's Championship reign and brief run as Cruiserweight Champion were seen as very insulting for a performer of her talent at the time. Years later she's only remembered as a two-time Women's Champion and one of only three women to hold the Cruiserweight title - and is one of the most respected women to ever wrestle in WWE.
• WTH, Costuming Department?: Specifically, TNA. Why would an African-American woman wear a Confederate Flag hat? Especially when she's managing a western tag team. Jacqueline herself isn't "a fan" of the Confederate Flag but revealed after leaving TNA that she went with it believing it could get her heel heat.