10 Impulse Reactions To The First EVER Empty Arena WWE Raw

4. Asuka Is Japanese

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An immortal line uttered by WhatCulture.com's Michael Sidgwick back when it was about to see her buried by the company yet again, Asuka's nationality has at long last become of value in this - the most warped WWE timeline ever.

After decades of Vince McMahon deeming non-American incomprehensible gibberish, he's managed to combine the two with this richly rewarding new gimmick for the 'Empress Of Tomorrow'.

Alongside Kairi Sane, she turns up places and screams out all sorts of rage and beyond in her native tongue. That's pretty much her thing now. It's absolutely terrifying, often quite intentionally amusing and so loaded with charismatic charm that The Kabuki Warriors act have managed to default their prop Tag Team Championships by default.

The act completely wrongfooted Tom Phillips, Jerry Lawler and Byron Saxton and created a welcome noise in place of the lack of crowd for the nothing match between Rey Mysterio and Andrade that she called. She danced on SmackDown. She screamed on Raw. She can work whenever they need her to and do it better than just about everybody else - the former NXT Champion is being a perfect Sports Entertainment all-rounder.

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Michael is a writer, editor, podcaster and presenter for WhatCulture Wrestling, and has been with the organisation nearly 8 years. He primarily produces written, audio and video content on WWE and AEW, but also provides knowledge and insights on all aspects of the wrestling industry thanks to a passion for it dating back over 35 years. As one third of "The Dadley Boyz" Michael has contributed to the huge rise in popularity of the WhatCulture Wrestling Podcast and its accompanying YouTube channel, earning it top spot in the UK's wrestling podcast charts with well over 62,000,000 total downloads. He has been featured as a wrestling analyst for the Tampa Bay Times, GRAPPL, GCP, Poisonrana and Sports Guys Talking Wrestling, and has covered milestone events in New York, Dallas, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, London and Cardiff. Michael's background in media stretches beyond wrestling coverage, with a degree in Journalism from the University Of Sunderland (2:1) and a series of published articles in sports, music and culture magazines The Crack, A Love Supreme and Pilot. When not offering his voice up for daily wrestling podcasts, he can be found losing it singing far too loud watching his favourite bands play live. Follow him on X/Twitter - @MichaelHamflett