5 Ways For WWE To Fix Asuka
5. Stop Using Her As A Prop
The biggest story in any wrestling division should be the struggle for the World Championship belt. It's the top prize in the company, and the writers need to enforce that idea by making its holder the focal point of the division.
It's safe to say WWE creative have failed Asuka in this regard.
Asuka has spent the majority of the past six months being used as a bit-part player in other wrestler's storylines. She was shoe-horned into Lana's feud with Nia Jax, she lost clean to Alexa Bliss as part of the latter's ongoing storyline with Randy Orton, and her partnership with Charlotte has taken a backseat to the Queen's ongoing daddy issues.
To paraphrase the late Terry Pratchett, "All the world's a stage, and Asuka is an extra in her own life story."
This can be seen as recently as this week's Raw. After Charlotte booted Asuka in the head to cost them the victory in their tag match, the Empress was nowhere to be seen in the backstage follow-up. Instead, we got part XLVIII in the never-ending Flair family circus, as Charlotte faced off with her father as part of the ongoing Lacey Evans storyline.
Speaking of which...