10 Booking Steps To End Asuka’s Undefeated Streak In WWE

10. An Emphatic Declaration

The thinned roster prohibits anything special for the Empress at Elimination Chamber - but that is the point.

Ahead of the WrestleMania RAW Women's Title Match, WWE must maintain the status quo. It's simple - unimaginative, even - but the f*ck-witted forks in the road to WrestleMania 33 should compel WWE to not swerve off course. Alexa Bliss is set to defend that title against five as-yet-undetermined competitors in the eponymous match - which Asuka, obviously, is unable to provide guest commentary for (though she can't really do any more anonymous a job than Stephanie managed at the Rumble).

An emphatic squash match victory is the sensible thing to do - but against whom?

Sonya Deville and Mandy Rose surely won't participate in the Chamber match; they are goose-sh*t green on the main roster stage, taken with the seriousness of an Atsushi Onita retirement pledge, and are nowhere near equipped for a match of such brutal concentration. They exist to enhance the actual stars - and enhancing Asuka in tandem casts a shred of uncertainty over a certain outcome, at least nominally.

Moreover, the audience is provided with a visual of pure dominance by way of the Empress annihilating both women with stereo Buzzsaw kicks.