AEW: Three current WWE wrestlers that should jump ship to AEW

3. Asuka

Asuka’s career with the main roster has had a very similar peak and fall off as fellow Japanese wrestler Shinsuke Nakamura, with both wrestlers being better off in other organizations with how they are currently being booked.

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Asuka has had more main roster success than Nakamura to be fair, but WWE Creative has absolutely butchered her character since her arrival on the main roster and its obvious that McMahon does not have the right vision for Asuka.

Asuka arrived on the main roster with a Goldberg-like winning streak and was actually booked as a world killer early on. This led to her also winning the 2018 Royal Rumble alongside Shinsuke Nakamura, setting up a match for the Smackdown Women’s Championship with Charlotte Flair at WrestleMania 34.

Then, before her unbeaten streak could even grow legs on the main roster, Flair submitted Asuka. At Money in the Bank, Asuka lost to then-champion Carmella, because of interference from James Ellsworth.

I get that the unbeaten run eventually had to end but WWE really could have done something special with it instead of ending it so soon in her main roster push. She fell into irrelevancy until TLC, where she defeated Charlotte Flair and Becky Lynch for the Smackdown Women’s Championship, finally getting the title she deserved.

She ended up just being a transitional champion to hold the belt until Flair was ready to take it back off of her to make the triple threat match with Lynch and Ronda Rousey for both belts.

I get why Flair was in that spot and we cannot say anything bad about Flair: she is excellent at what she does. However, just imagine if that match was, say, a four-way elimination bout for both belts and Asuka still was undefeated.

Imagine Lynch either pinning or submitted Flair, an unbeaten Asuka and Rousey all in the main event. That would have been so much more impactful than the roll up that Lynch won on.

Asuka is extremely talented and WWE has already whiffed on her potential on the main roster. She would be much better off in a company that can better utilize her talents.