10 Most Shocking Things WWE Have Done In 2018 (So Far)
1. Asuka Taps
Having achieved great success in Joshi promotions with a number of championship reigns, Asuka arrived in NXT in late-2015. During her time spent there, she remained undefeated for over two years and held the NXT Women's Championship for an astonishing 510 days. With no-one able to stop Asuka's reign of terror, The 'Empress of Tomorrow' debuted on the main roster the 2017 Tables, Ladders and Chairs pay-per-view with a win over Emma.
Surely WWE wouldn't ruin her on the big leagues? Wrong.
Asuka's win in the first women's Royal Rumble match saw her go on to challenge Charlotte Flair for the SmackDown Live! Women's Championship at WrestleMania 34, which is a match that had money written all over it. Heading in, not many people believed that the streak was ending. Charlotte had been champion since the previous November, so it was entirely plausible that she could lose the gold.
It came as one of the biggest swerves WWE have pulled on the fans when Asuka tapped out to the Figure Eight, ending her remarkable streak at 914 days. Inside the very same building that The Undertaker's streak came to its conclusion, Asuka suffered the same fate.
The streak would have ended at some point as everyone knew, but did it realistically need to end just months after Asuka's first main roster appearance?