WWE Elimination Chamber 2018: 3 Reasons Why Asuka Must Win
By Daniel Wood
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#3. It’s too early to break the streak
There is no reason at all Asuka’s undefeated streak should be broken at Elimination Chamber against an opponent with relatively little build-up or feud, less than a month after winning the Royal Rumble match just to make a Triple Threat match for the Raw Women’s Title at WrestleMania that hasn’t officially been announced yet.
We’re talking ending over three years of build-up, an alleged 240-0 win streak, never getting pinned or submitted, even in multi-person matches at house shows and on television that she didn’t win, just to add Nia Jax to a WrestleMania match.
No offence to Jax, but I truly believe this would be a colossal waste of a pay-off for ending the streak. Whoever does end it should do so as the culmination of a long-prolonged feud, or in some heavily hyped up buzz-worthy affair. Nia Jax Vs. Asuka at Elimination Chamber is neither of those things.
Also, the Elimination Chamber isn’t the right time or place to end the streak. Doing so whilst so close to WrestleMania would diminish any potential WrestleMania match Asuka is involved in as the stakes just wouldn’t be as high. Look at how Undertaker’s ‘Mania matches just don’t have the same appeal after Lesnar broke his streak.
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The WWE got that right though, they realised that a streak like Undertaker’s needed to be dropped to a credible person like Brock Lesnar, and it needed to be on the grandest stage of them all. Asuka’s undefeated streak, the biggest undefeated streak in modern wrestling, needs to be treated with the same respect.