WWE: Becky Lynch vs. Asuka more than met the hype

Becky Lynch and Asuka faced off in the most highly-anticipated title match of the WWE Royal Rumble 2020 Pay Per View, and they stole the show.

There are some wrestlers who were just meant to face each other in the big matches, and Asuka and Becky Lynch put on another show at the Royal Rumble in 2020. But did anyone expect any less from these two?

Asuka and Becky told the best story in WWE over the past month, building towards a second highly anticipated Royal Rumble Pay Per View match. Lynch put her Raw Women’s Title on the line, pushing management in kayfabe to do so in order to agree to a new contract, because she desperately wanted to prove that she could beat Asuka. At TLC last month, she and Charlotte Flair fell short in a Women’s Tag Titles main event against Asuka and Kairi Sane.

However, Becky wouldn’t fall short at the Rumble. Despite losing to The Empress at last year’s show before going on to win the Rumble and main event WrestleMania, Lynch managed to hit the Dis-Arm-Her on Asuka in Houston.

The match itself was fantastic. With perfect pacing and story-telling, Lynch and Asuka tore it up at Minute Maid Park as the next-to-last match of the night, before the Men’s Rumble. It isn’t an easy spot after the fans have already watched multiple main title matches and a thrilling Women’s Rumble with plenty of surprises, but Becky and Asuka put in a show-stealing shift,

You could see the desperation from Becky’s promos bleeding into her demeanor in the ring. She tossed Asuka outside the ring, hit her with a Bexploder into the barricade, and went for a thunderous leg drop. Becky pulled out all the stops, but she was still pushed to her limit.

This time, however, Becky wouldn’t quit. She wouldn’t quit when she was in multiple submissions. She wouldn’t quit when the referee was about to give up on the match after she kept absorbing Asuka’s equally vicious kicks, even screaming in Asuka’s face after hitting a few to the chest.

And in the end, Becky was the one who submitted the dominant Empress, formerly the most undefeatable wrestler in WWE history.

Lynch and Asuka got 17 minutes to shine at Minute Maid Park, and they took advantage of every single second. And best of all for Lynch, she is still the Raw Women’s Champion and proved she has what it takes to beat the one woman she previously could no defeat.

So do yourself a favor and check out this match if you haven’t already. Enjoy every second of another masterpiece between these two world-class wrestlers. Oh, and speculate away on Becky’s WrestleMania 36 opponent, because while Charlotte Flair won this year’s Women’s Rumble, there’s plenty of Ronda Rousey rematch speculation to go around.