Is WrestleMania 34 shaping up to be one of the worst ever?

Raw Women's Championship: Alexa Bliss vs. Asuka

Empress vs. Goddess incoming?

It's arguable that this was the match that was coming anyway, but with the likelihood of the Horsewomen match, it would more or less have to.

This match doesn't have to have a bad storyline. If told right, the build could be very entertaining. Remember the fun feud between Edge and the Undertaker heading into WrestleMania 24, where Edge played his Machiavellian games until he couldn't run anymore? That's what should happen here. The idea being: "Alexa, you can play your games and do your ambushes and cheap shots, but at WrestleMania, Asuka's gonna kill you."

If that was the idea, with a short, decisive payoff, it wouldn't be bad (but not nearly as good as Asuka vs. Sasha Banks would have been). Yet, we should know from past Alexa feuds that they don't tend to be that way.

Rather, we get weeks of juvenile promos and then a so-so match limited by Bliss's ring skills where she beats her opponents cleanly but unconvincingly. Worse still, because it's at WrestleMania, there is a real possibility of that happening to Asuka and ending her streak, even though Bliss needs the rub the least.

Perhaps that's still too speculative. After all, there hasn't been a women's singles match at WrestleMania since 2007. Yet, this match would be the only logical direction to head in based on current booking. Raw's women's division has decayed considerably, and only Bliss and Asuka actually feel like genuine stars at this point.