10 WWE Champions Who Forfeited Their Title Due To Injury

The most recent entry on this list, Asuka saw her record-setting NXT Women's Championship reign cut short last week after suffering a collarbone injury expected to keep her out of action for a couple of months (which will give her time to rest up ahead of her expected Raw debut in October).

Few have shed any tears, though. The 35-year-old has long since outgrown the developmental ranks, and her main roster debut has seemed imminent for at least the last couple of months, with the women's divisions - on Raw in particular - beginning to turn to endless rematches.

Asuka's reign will go down as one of the most dominant ever - male or female - and though it's a slightly unsatisfactory conclusion, it would have been equally unsatisfactory to end her streak on NXT.