10 Wrestlers Scarier Than The Fiend
5. Asuka
The Fiend isn't even the scariest wrestler on the main roster.
Realistically, Asuka shouldn't be a storyline threat. Fans should not take her seriously as a performer even adjacent to the undefeated killer of a few years ago. The booking in theory should have destroyed her aura, because she was booked to sell profound confusion at the sight of a winking James Ellsworth when she wasn't the most insulting afterthought of the modern era. Perhaps it's a wider, WWE thing that underscores just how disposable everything has become, or perhaps Asuka is so exceptional a performer that she can reheat herself.
After months in the wilderness, she got over by winning the awesome TLC 2018 headliner. After another prolonged vanishing, she got over as a heel Kabuki Warrior. She is immune to the machinations that otherwise kill careers dead because she is so brilliant; her guttural native tongue promos are somehow more effective and comprehensible than most of the overly long and mostly meaningless spiels elsewhere.
She works a snug and wholly unique style, the snap of which always comes off as deadly, and even the way she wiggles her fingers ahead of a barrage highlights a certain, gleeful sadism.
Every single performer in the game should study her spinning back fist in this era of careless, thrown-to-miss clotheslines. If you don't get the f*ck out of the way, your head is coming off.