15 Things You Might Have Missed From Last Night’s WWE SmackDown

12. Asuka’s First SmackDown Match Was A Throwaway Tag

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Asuka, WWE's resident unbeaten female superstar for 914 days, was put into a throwaway tag-team match for her first in-ring showing on SmackDown. Though not everyone can be in the title program (that's Charlotte Flair's spot for now), it is noticeable that blue brand writers don't have much for Asuka to do.

Worse, she lost.

OK, so Becky Lynch took the fall from Peyton Royce, but it's still one in the loss column for a star who had gone undefeated until WrestleMania 34. Hopefully, this isn't a sign that WWE are starting to lose interest in pushing Asuka. There's so much more they could do with her.

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