10 WWE Wrestlers Who Were Too Entertaining For Their Own Good
4. Asuka
Jericho's entry mentioned that, very often, hard work is often rewarded with more work.
Unless you're Asuka. Then hard work is rewarded with almost no work at all. Or respect. Or more than the faintest acknowledgement of your existence.
Asuka helped carry the company during the Empty Arena Era, and at first, it looked like WWE were finally giving the Empress her due when she became the backbone of SummerSlam 2020, fighting Bayley and Sasha Banks in separate matches and winning the RAW Women's Championship from the latter.
WWE being what it is though, Asuka's reign was a crushing disappointment. Realising that Asuka's popularity was such that she would remain over no matter how she was booked, WWE elected to do the bare minimum with her reign while the people in charge got on with telling the stories they wanted to tell.
Asuka and the belt took a backseat while WWE Creative pandered to Vince McMahon with stories about a septuagenarian shacking up with a woman 40 years his junior. A woman Asuka was originally booked to lose the belt to before circumstances intervened.
Like Jericho before her, WWE clearly sees Asuka as a "hell of a hand". And with her having been off TV for three weeks at time of writing, maybe it's time she took a leaf out of Le Champion's book and jumped ship to greener pastures...