5 theories why Asuka lost the WWE SmackDown Women's Championship

#3 Has anyone been built up enough to face Asuka?

Many fans have voiced their displeasure on social media after the SmackDown Women’s Championship Fatal 4-Way #1 contender match between Carmella, Naomi, Mandy Rose and Sonya Deville was cancelled from this week’s episode of SmackDown Live.

But, with respect to those four Superstars, would a singles match between any one of them and Asuka really have been worthy of taking place on the grand WrestleMania stage? “The Empress of Tomorrow” already faced Carmella and Naomi in title matches in 2018, while she recently picked up victories over the dysfunctional Rose and Deville in the space of two days.

Ideally, somebody else would have emerged from the SmackDown women’s division at just the right time to try to dethrone Asuka at WrestleMania, but WWE prioritised Becky Lynch, Charlotte Flair and the Raw Women’s Championship storyline on Tuesday nights, which prevented other blue brand women from staking their claim to be in the title picture.