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Post by Legion on Apr 25, 2022 9:31:54 GMT -5
"Fightful is reporting that WWE is preparing for Asuka’s return to the RAW brand. The plan will include the “Empress of Tomorrow” coming back to RAW as early as this week’s show to begin a short-term program with Becky Lynch. Asuka has been out of action since July 2021 and is ready to return at any moment.
These are tentative plans set in motion by WWE, as things can change, but this seems to be the projected direction by the creative team for this Monday’s show."
I didnt see a thread for this, but yeah, I'll be happy to see her back.
There is also news that Ali may return tonight too, being discussed in his thread.
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Post by polarbearpete on Apr 25, 2022 9:59:43 GMT -5
Pretty major way for her to return, to be Becky’s first post-title feud.
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Post by brettappedout (BLM) on Apr 25, 2022 10:01:58 GMT -5
Pretty major way for her to return, to be Becky’s first post-title feud. plus it'd be a big women's feud without the title which most main stream wrestling/sports entertainment needs imo.
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Post by polarbearpete on Apr 25, 2022 10:19:19 GMT -5
Pretty major way for her to return, to be Becky’s first post-title feud. plus it'd be a big women's feud without the title which most main stream wrestling/sports entertainment needs imo. Yeah, they’d have Bianca-Sonya, Becky-Asuka and Rhea-Liv all feuding on Raw.
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Post by Bang Bang Bart on Apr 25, 2022 11:33:58 GMT -5
plus it'd be a big women's feud without the title which most main stream wrestling/sports entertainment needs imo. Yeah, they’d have Bianca-Sonya, Becky-Asuka and Rhea-Liv all feuding on Raw. Would love for Smackdown to have a feud beyond Ronda/Charlotte.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2022 11:40:40 GMT -5
Gonna be interesting to see how Becky Vs Asuka plays out especially now with Vince's supposed view of certain talents being miscast and see who falls to which alignment whether they bring Becky back tonight as a humbled now on the path to redemption babyface or still remaining the heel and doubling down on getting her title back etc.
One would hope this would mean with Asuka coming back she is just gonna wreck Becky's shit and win this short feud pretty handedly but probably with the excuse commentary will rattle home about how Becky is not herself ever since she lost the title and has no confidence etc etc etc every which way to take away from Asuka and make sure Becky stays propped up.
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Post by Matt on Apr 25, 2022 11:46:16 GMT -5
Spoiler: Becky wins
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Post by polarbearpete on Apr 25, 2022 12:10:23 GMT -5
Yeah, they’d have Bianca-Sonya, Becky-Asuka and Rhea-Liv all feuding on Raw. Would love for Smackdown to have a feud beyond Ronda/Charlotte. Looks like they’ll have Ronda-Charlotte, Sasha/Naomi-Shayna/Nattie. And then whatever Xia and Lacey do when they return. Bayley will fit in on one of the rosters as well, presumably in a prominent role.
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Post by polarbearpete on Apr 25, 2022 12:11:28 GMT -5
Gonna be interesting to see how Becky Vs Asuka plays out especially now with Vince's supposed view of certain talents being miscast and see who falls to which alignment whether they bring Becky back tonight as a humbled now on the path to redemption babyface or still remaining the heel and doubling down on getting her title back etc. One would hope this would mean with Asuka coming back she is just gonna wreck Becky's shit and win this short feud pretty handedly but probably with the excuse commentary will rattle home about how Becky is not herself ever since she lost the title and has no confidence etc etc etc every which way to take away from Asuka and make sure Becky stays propped up. I think you’ll be disappointed if you go in thinking Asuka will knock Becky off handily. I imagine Becky wins this feud to get some momentum back after the loss to Bianca.
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Post by mistery on Apr 25, 2022 13:27:50 GMT -5
Gonna be interesting to see how Becky Vs Asuka plays out especially now with Vince's supposed view of certain talents being miscast and see who falls to which alignment whether they bring Becky back tonight as a humbled now on the path to redemption babyface or still remaining the heel and doubling down on getting her title back etc. One would hope this would mean with Asuka coming back she is just gonna wreck Becky's shit and win this short feud pretty handedly but probably with the excuse commentary will rattle home about how Becky is not herself ever since she lost the title and has no confidence etc etc etc every which way to take away from Asuka and make sure Becky stays propped up. I think you’ll be disappointed if you go in thinking Asuka will knock Becky off handily. I imagine Becky wins this feud to get some momentum back after the loss to Bianca. I would be shocked if they just try to give Becky momentum back. It feels more like she needs to head on a downward spiral before she (likely) gets drafted over to Smackdown to feud with Ronda for the title. Plus bringing back Asuka just to lose her first feud back would be absolute garbage tier booking. I feel like Becky really does need to suffer a complete downward spiral in terms of kayfabe, and then get redemption. Keep in mind that for pretty much her entire reign since Summerslam she was constantly cheating and it finally caught up to her. So she needs to suffer some actual setbacks now before rebuilding her as the face to dethrone Ronda. None of this "Worst year of John Cena's career" garbage. Where Asuka really can't take a loss right now. Her credibility was shot to pieces right before she left, and coming back and losing her first feud back would pretty much cement her as a low midcarder.
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Post by polarbearpete on Apr 25, 2022 13:32:07 GMT -5
I think you’ll be disappointed if you go in thinking Asuka will knock Becky off handily. I imagine Becky wins this feud to get some momentum back after the loss to Bianca. I would be shocked if they just try to give Becky momentum back. It feels more like she needs to head on a downward spiral before she (likely) gets drafted over to Smackdown to feud with Ronda for the title. Plus bringing back Asuka just to lose her first feud back would be absolute garbage tier booking. I feel like Becky really does need to suffer a complete downward spiral in terms of kayfabe, and then get redemption. Keep in mind that for pretty much her entire reign since Summerslam she was constantly cheating and it finally caught up to her. So she needs to suffer some actual setbacks now before rebuilding her as the face to dethrone Ronda. None of this "Worst year of John Cena's career" garbage. That would be a fun story, but I’m thinking she beats Asuka via cheating still. I’m not sure they’re ready to go down the face turn road this early in the year.
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Post by mistery on Apr 25, 2022 13:35:18 GMT -5
I would be shocked if they just try to give Becky momentum back. It feels more like she needs to head on a downward spiral before she (likely) gets drafted over to Smackdown to feud with Ronda for the title. Plus bringing back Asuka just to lose her first feud back would be absolute garbage tier booking. I feel like Becky really does need to suffer a complete downward spiral in terms of kayfabe, and then get redemption. Keep in mind that for pretty much her entire reign since Summerslam she was constantly cheating and it finally caught up to her. So she needs to suffer some actual setbacks now before rebuilding her as the face to dethrone Ronda. None of this "Worst year of John Cena's career" garbage. That would be a fun story, but I’m thinking she beats Asuka via cheating still. I’m not sure they’re ready to go down the face turn road this early in the year. I mean you don't need to turn her face right now. You can keep having her stack up major losses until she is at her lowest point and then build her back up. Hell, I would go as far to say Becky should win MITB but then fail the cash in against Bianca. Then you can draft her over to Smackdown, and start slowly rehabbing her until she fights Ronda at Mania next year. Becky doesn't need nor should she win this feud with Asuka. All it does is severely harm Asuka (who needs some actual serious wins more than anything else right now), and it won't benefit Becky at all either, since she can conceivably challenge for the title at any time and still be seen as a threat sorta. And like I said, having Asuka lose her first feud back would be a complete and utter disaster for her. It doesn't help that it feels like Asian talents in particular are being made to look really bad over the past month or two (Shinsuke getting geeked out for literally no reason other than HEAT, Io having her momentum killed by Mandy, Sarray losing her feud against Tiffany, and Kushida leaving but not before him and Jiro were made to look like complete losers to a guy who is going to completely bomb on the main roster), and people on social media are starting to notice it as well. Plus its worth noting that Becky is likely out of the title picture for awhile if the dark match from this past Smackdown was any indication, where Bianca was facing Rhea, who acted like a mega heel the entire time.
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Post by ThankGodForSidJustice on Apr 25, 2022 15:29:06 GMT -5
If Becky is going to be feuding with Asuka then what does Bianca do a Backlash? I guess they do some kind of screwy finish in the Sonya match tonight to set up a rematch. Or they just have Rhea beat Liv on Raw instead and go right to her against Bianca which seems way too soon to be doing that. Bianca isn't losing the belt any time soon since she just won it and I doubt they want Rhea losing so soon after her heel turn.
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Post by asuka007 on Apr 25, 2022 15:37:24 GMT -5
I hope Asuka wins the feud. They could use it for more character growth for Becky. Maybe even a gradual face turn perhaps? Raw is in need of more babyfaces right now.
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Post by mistery on Apr 25, 2022 15:45:12 GMT -5
If Becky is going to be feuding with Asuka then what does Bianca do a Backlash? I guess they do some kind of screwy finish in the Sonya match tonight to set up a rematch. Or they just have Rhea beat Liv on Raw instead and go right to her against Bianca which seems way too soon to be doing that. Bianca isn't losing the belt any time soon since she just won it and I doubt they want Rhea losing so soon after her heel turn. They'll probably do Rhea/Bianca at Backlash, and have it run through at least two PLEs. They've already started doing dark matches between Rhea and Bianca as of late, which usually indicates those two will be feuding soon. Or Bianca just won't have a title match at Backlash. But I doubt they are gonna run Becky/Bianca again at the event considering the feud is incredibly stale and there's nowhere else to really go with it that could make it interesting.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2022 15:45:20 GMT -5
That would be the stupidest f***ing thing to do since bringing back Alexa just to lose to Bianca in the chamber so I wont put it past them.
And it would put the final nail in Raw's womens divisions depth because then you literally got no one left of any credibility outside of matchs they have run into the f***ing ground 1000 times over.
Becky can absoloutley afford to lose to Asuka and she should handidly because like said the story should be Becky is in a downward spiral going from top of the world thinking she was untouchable and now it should be failure after failure compounding on her untill she is sent packing from Raw to SD where she can be built back up in time to beat Ronnie at Mania next year.
There is absoloutley no story and nowhere to go with Becky beating a returning Asuka absoloutley none.
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Post by Lance Uppercut on Apr 25, 2022 16:20:14 GMT -5
Pretty major way for her to return, to be Becky’s first post-title feud. Makes sense, she won the money in the bank while Becky was champion so she never got to challenge
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Post by gl83 on Apr 25, 2022 16:41:46 GMT -5
That would be the stupidest f***ing thing to do since bringing back Alexa just to lose to Bianca in the chamber so I wont put it past them. And it would put the final nail in Raw's womens divisions depth because then you literally got no one left of any credibility outside of matchs they have run into the f***ing ground 1000 times over. Becky can absoloutley afford to lose to Asuka and she should handidly because like said the story should be Becky is in a downward spiral going from top of the world thinking she was untouchable and now it should be failure after failure compounding on her untill she is sent packing from Raw to SD where she can be built back up in time to beat Ronnie at Mania next year. There is absoloutley no story and nowhere to go with Becky beating a returning Asuka absoloutley none. Not to mention that for the longest time Asuka was the proverbial “monkey on her back”. The one person that for over a year that “The Man” could not beat. And her victory over Asuka was probably her biggest win. So, who better to use to further the story of Becky Lynch’s “fall from grace” than one of her biggest rivals.
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Post by ThankGodForSidJustice on Apr 25, 2022 18:03:12 GMT -5
That would be the stupidest f***ing thing to do since bringing back Alexa just to lose to Bianca in the chamber so I wont put it past them. And it would put the final nail in Raw's womens divisions depth because then you literally got no one left of any credibility outside of matchs they have run into the f***ing ground 1000 times over. Becky can absoloutley afford to lose to Asuka and she should handidly because like said the story should be Becky is in a downward spiral going from top of the world thinking she was untouchable and now it should be failure after failure compounding on her untill she is sent packing from Raw to SD where she can be built back up in time to beat Ronnie at Mania next year. There is absoloutley no story and nowhere to go with Becky beating a returning Asuka absoloutley none. Not to mention that for the longest time Asuka was the proverbial “monkey on her back”. The one person that for over a year that “The Man” could not beat. And her victory over Asuka was probably her biggest win. So, who better to use to further the story of Becky Lynch’s “fall from grace” than one of her biggest rivals. When it comes to Becky and Asuka I'm sure the matches will be good or whatever but it really doesn't interest me as it's "been there, done that". Also Becky already "exorcised the demon" when she won their early 2020 feud so even from a narrative standpoint it's really not interesting. I think a better way to use Becky would be for someone come up from NXT and feud with her and you have the newcomer have her number. Like say Alba Fyre/Kay Lee Ray comes in and beats Becky a few times. If you want to do some kind of an angle with Becky getting knocked down a few pegs and having to come back I think that would be a better and more fresh way of going about where there's these new younger and hungrier stars coming in and Becky begins to have self doubt if she can hang with them and is worried she's going to get past by. I think that's better then going back to Asuka well and having Becky have doubt that she can beat even though she did multiple times a few years ago. I know Becky likes Asuka and it wouldn't surprise if she vouched to feud with her but I think there's others who would benefit more and fit better with that narrative.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2022 18:07:39 GMT -5
Not to mention that for the longest time Asuka was the proverbial “monkey on her back”. The one person that for over a year that “The Man” could not beat. And her victory over Asuka was probably her biggest win. So, who better to use to further the story of Becky Lynch’s “fall from grace” than one of her biggest rivals. When it comes to Becky and Asuka I'm sure the matches will be good or whatever but it really doesn't interest me as it's "been there, done that". Also Becky already "exorcised the demon" when she won their early 2020 feud so even from a narrative standpoint it's really not interesting. I think a better way to use Becky would be for someone come up from NXT and feud with her and you have the newcomer have her number. Like say Alba Fyre/Kay Lee Ray comes in and beats Becky a few times. If you want to do some kind of an angle with Becky getting knocked down a few pegs and having to come back I think that would be a better and more fresh way of going about where there's these new younger and hungrier stars coming in and Becky begins to have self doubt if she can hang with them and is worried she's going to get past by. I think that's better then going back to Asuka well and having Becky have doubt that she can beat even though she did multiple times a few years ago. I know Becky likes Asuka and it wouldn't surprise if she vouched to feud with her but I think there's others who would benefit more and fit better with that narrative. I know it was said that her name was not on any of the call ups but that absoloutley should have been Io's call up if not for her current injury. And I wont doubt that some writer probably did pitch it and got shot down.
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