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#2 Asuka becomes the Empress of SmackDown Live by winning the SmackDown Women's Championship
Personally speaking, I genuinely admire how Asuka has hijacked the spotlight from Becky Lynch and Charlotte Flair and made her more relevant than she has ever been.
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While she's been underutilized for a long long time, the company has finally started acknowledging the magnetic presence of the Empress of Tomorrow.
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The former NXT Women's Champion will enter the SAP Center as a genuine threat and could certainly finish Becky Lynch's powerful reign as the Man of the WWE.
There's no denying that the creative team will protect all the three superstars, but Asuka's inclusion in the match could shake things up and shock the entire world.
Defeating Charlotte and Becky Lynch on the same night puts Asuka on a different level and certainly gives the other two women a chance to redeem themselves in the Royal Rumble match.
To be fair, Asuka deserves the win here and with rumours suggesting that Vince is genuinely impressed with the Empress, she is definitely shocking us all this Sunday.
