News broke at the August 24th taping of NXT that Asuka would be vacating her NXT Women’s Championship. This is due to her recently breaking her collarbone in her match against Ember Moon at NXT Takeover: Brooklyn III.
We have a potential spoiler on Asuka’s future when she recovers from the injury. If you don’t want to be spoiled, we warn you to click away now.
If it wasn’t obvious enough, the article on WWE.com (announcing her vacating the title) teases that she will be moving up to the WWE main roster. The article says: “The Empress of Tomorrow looks to her future for new opportunities in WWE, though no specific details are known at this time”. This clearly tells us that she will be getting called up.
The question is, to which brand?
According to Ryan Satin of Pro Wrestling Sheet, she will be joining the RAW roster:
Now that it’s official, Bobby Roode/Asuka were the major call-ups I was referring to after TakeOver.
I’ve been told Asuka will be on Raw. https://t.co/SQF59pzsg4
— Ryan Satin (@ryansatin) August 25, 2017
A pretty interesting way for Asuka to make her debut, without ever losing a match. It is clear that WWE is high on Asuka from her record-breaking title reign in NXT. It will be interesting to see how she is booked on the main roster.
Sasha Banks vs Asuka has a nice ring to it.
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Raw with Sasha, Bayley, Alexa, Nia, Mickie, Emma, Dana, Alicia, plus Summer and Paige are originally draft to Raw during brand split. SDL with Charlotte, Becky, Naomi, Natalya, Carmella and Tamina while Lana moves back to managerial role. If Asuka ends up on Raw while no other NXT women move to SDL, they should send some unused Raw woman to SDL instead of wasting them on Raw.
Asuka vs Sasha? If you want to see a lamb taken out to slaughter maybe!!! I would prefer to see her face Nia or better yet, head to SDL and have a rivalry with Charlotte!!
she already beat nia!
That was NEXT, this is the big leagues now. Both are more seasoned and the rivalry would be far better now.