#7 Asuka
2017 was a dark year for women's wrestling in WWE. After taking a step in the right direction in 2016, it regressed this year, as questionable booking and multi-woman match after multi-woman match made few programs feel like they mattered. There were also more than a few terrible feuds and segments within the division that left the wrong kind of memories to highlight the year.
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There was one woman, however, who could reliably bear the torch. Asuka partook in the two best women's feuds and matches of 2017 in her bouts with Nikki Cross and Ember Moon, and though she's only been on the main roster for two months, she electrified Survivor Series and helped to breathe new life into an incredibly stale division on RAW, quickly becoming one of its more over performers, despite a rocky first few weeks.
Asuka is the clear choice to lead the RAW women's division in 2018 and it should begin with her victory in the first women's Royal Rumble.