WWE celebrity Asuka will probably be pulling double responsibility at this 12 months’s SummerSlam pay per view occasion streaming stay Sunday, Aug. 23 at 7/6c on the WWE Network. The occasion will happen on the WWE ThunderDome, an elaborate set on the Amway Center in Orlando boasting enormous pyrotechnics and tons of of shiny LED screens.
After beating Bayley on Monday Night Raw and profitable a battle royal on Friday Night SmackDown, the mask-wearing, inexperienced mist-spitting wrestler — often known as the Empress of Tomorrow — will probably be taking up each Sasha Banks and Bayley for the Uncooked and SmackDown Ladies’s Championship, respectively. If Asuka wins each matches, she would turn out to be a double champion which might be a significant profession spotlight. Nevertheless, that potential win would additionally carry on a complete new set of challenges. In any case, she’d be defending her titles from two completely different rosters of extraordinarily hungry rivals. However earlier than Asuka may even start to arrange for that problem, she should first defeat two members of the famed Four Horsewomen of NXT.
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“Sasha Banks and Bayley are nice athletes,” Asuka informed TV Information with assist from Funaki, who translated the interview. “[Sasha Banks is] technically nice. Each single match with [her] is completely different so I’ve to watch out. And Bayley with Sasha, they’re so silly. [But] bear in mind, I received the NXT’s Ladies’s Championship from Bayley so I feel I can beat her once more to regain the SmackDown Ladies’s Championship.”
Asuka should face each threats with none backup now that her former tag crew companion Kairie Sane is not within the WWE. Sane departed the company in July to be together with her household in Japan. Because the Kabuka Warriors, the pair tore it up within the ladies’s tag crew division, profitable the Tag Staff titles eventually 12 months’s Hell in a Cell pay per view. With out Sane round, Asuka admits that issues are “unhappy for now.”
“I used to be simply on my own earlier than Kairi, and when she got here to the WWE, I had a strong companion, inside and outdoors of the ring,” she stated.
As Asuka forges forward as a singles competitor, she hasn’t dominated out the potential of teaming with one other companion. One wrestler who stands out for the colourful competitor is Shayna Baszler, who she teamed with to efficiently defeat Bayley and Sasha Banks on the Aug. 17 episode of Uncooked.
“I am comfy together with her, and we received the tag crew match so possibly Shayna is the one,” Asuka stated.
Catch Asuka in motion at SummerSlam which takes place Sunday, Aug. 23 at 7/6c on the WWE Network.
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