Road Dogg Reveals Why WWE Ended Asuka's Undefeated Streak At WrestleMania 34
Why WWE ended Asuka’s undefeated streak at WrestleMania 34 revealed by Road Dogg
Heading into WWE WrestleMania 34, Asuka was on the run of her career, with ‘The Empress of Tomorrow’ in the midst of a undefeated streak that stretched all the way back to her NXT debut in 2015.
However, Mania would see Asuka taste defeat in a WWE ring for the first time, with WWE SmackDown Women’s Champion Charlotte Flair making Asuka submit to the Figure-Eight. The decision was not wildly popular with WWE fans, and former SmackDown head writer Road Dogg has revealed why the streak was ended, saying on the Oh... You Didn’t Know podcast:
“Either you’re gonna put Asuka over (at WrestleMania 34) and she maintains that thing or you’re gonna put Charlotte (Flair) over and holy mackerel, she’s broken the streak and you know, the streak only goes for so long. You can’t be undefeated forever, you know what I mean? As much as everybody hated it with The Undertaker’s streak being broken, I guess he could’ve just retired with his streak unbroken but they were thinking about the future and who do we give this (to)? Same thing, same thing here. If you’re gonna beat Asuka, who you gonna give that carrot to? Because she’s undefeated and so somebody who beats her, you better be looking to do something with and of course we were looking to do something with Charlotte always, and so, that goes back and forth and you’ll hear ideas for each to go over and the bottom line is you look at the roster and go, hey, on the other side of this, who’s better as a champion? Who has more people to work with?
“There’s a lot of stuff people don’t think about (that) goes into all this and so there’s a lot of thinking down to the wire all the time. It’s just a little different when it’s Mania. But a lot of meeting behind closed doors goes on there too and people negotiate. People go in and have an idea and maybe it wins the day, and something changes. That happens,” revealed Road Dogg
Asuka has now wrestled at five WrestleMania events, registering zero wins.
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