A few years ago WWE introduced the women’s Royal Rumble match to the world and Asuka was the first woman to win it all. She punched her ticket to WrestleMania where she challenged Charlotte Flair for the SmackDown Women’s Championship on the Grandest Stage of Them All.
Prior to her match with Charlotte Flair at WrestleMania, Asuka had been undefeated for 914 days, but in the end Charlotte defeated Asuka and ended the streak at the Showcase of the Immortals. Road Dogg recently discussed the match on his Oh You Didn’t Know? podcast and he explained the decision to end the streak.
“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.”
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