10 Absolute Best Matches WWE Can Promote In 2019

4. Daniel Bryan Vs. Asuka

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If we’re doing inter-gender wrestling now, and it does appear that Mattel have jobbed to the USA Network, perhaps it’s a good idea not to experiment with Nia Jax in the role. Having stiffed literally the first man she encountered (R-Truth), after, like, one second, at this rate, there’s a decent probability of the Irresistible Force breaking the face of every last member of the roster.

It’s a position she’s demonstrably not equipped for.

Asuka is: she is one of the most believable sh*t-kickers in all of wrestling, irrespective of gender, and Daniel Bryan’s no-selling of her would inform an incredible strand of drama. Mirroring Elimination Chamber 2012, at which Bryan welcomed Santino Marella’s improbable last stand with a smug grin before it was wiped from his face in a sensational three-minute sequence that illustrated Bryan’s genius, this dream match is a full-on gasp factory in theory.

No other performer, surely, could have convinced 10,000+ people that Santino Marella was bound for WrestleMania—and no other performer beyond Bryan possesses the technique and storytelling ability to fashion something progressive, credible, and technically sumptuous from WWE’s latest, cynical desperation tactic.

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