WWE Extreme Rules 2018: Star Ratings For All 12 Matches

8. Carmella Vs. Asuka - SmackDown Women’s Title Match

Minus Four Stars
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Another complete joke in which Asuka was the punchline, this “match” was worse than a farce. It was a crime scene.

Referees are stupid. The guy in the shark cage always has something hidden up his sleeve. They always have more than one item hidden up their sleeve. So, when Asuka caught the chain, it was perhaps incumbent on the referee to keep one eye up above. Not that any of this mattered. Asuka was the real idiot.

When you think about it - but don’t, it f*cking hurts - the stupidity was endless. Knowing all this, why didn’t anybody in a management capacity pat Ellsworth down before he entered the cage? He was forced into it precisely because he deals in these shenanigans. He didn’t just possess the odd weapon or two. He held the key to the cage. Who was tasked with protecting it? One of the dipsh*t babyfaces backstage?

Asuka is stupid. She focused all of her attention on Ellsworth when he was trapped. If she wasn’t stupid, she’d have simply beaten Carmella, reclaiming her title, before serving the reckoning.

Asuka did not, because she is stupid.

Asuka. The same performer with that legendary streak.

Asuka.

Star Rating: -****

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