10 Wrestlers Who Have Hit The Glass Ceiling In WWE

3. Asuka

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"Former SmackDown Women's Champion" is a higher glass ceiling than most wrestlers on our list could ever hope to hit, but while Asuka has tasted success with her 100-day reign and 2018 Royal Rumble victory, she'll never reach her division's pinnacle.

Said pinnacle is reserved for Charlotte Flair, Becky Lynch, and Ronda Rousey. Sasha Banks and Bayley are within touching distance and could conceivably join (or replace one of) the trio in the future. Asuka? She might get another title reign, but there's no room for her on the mountaintop. Everything that's happened since winning the Rumble tells us this.

As electric as she was in NXT, 'The Empress of Tomorrow' is, in Vince McMahon's eyes, just another wrestler who can't cut a convincing English promo. This shouldn't be the case. Special, unique performers demand special, unique presentation, not the same churn as everyone else. Her main roster promise should have warranted the kind of individual focus WWE only really grant to Brock Lesnar and Bray Wyatt at the moment, yet the company chose to dampen her outstanding attributes by putting her through a system that accentuates her weaknesses.

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