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Bianca Belair beat Asuka on Night time 2 of WrestleMania 39 on Sunday to retain the Uncooked Ladies’s Championship and prolong her yearlong title reign.
The Empress of Tomorrow appeared to have the titleholder in hassle occasionally, however The EST of WWE discovered a approach to counter her opponent and maintain maintain of her belt.
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All through the summer time and fall, Asuka teamed with Belair and Alexa Bliss of their battle towards Injury CTRL, even profitable the WWE Ladies’s Tag Crew Championships with The Goddess briefly.
Shortly after they dropped the titles again to Iyo Sky and Dakota Kai, The Empress disappeared from WWE programming, however she resurfaced as a shock entrant within the ladies’s Royal Rumble match.
She had a totally completely different look and angle and practically gained the second Rumble match of her profession, ending because the second runner-up behind Liv Morgan and winner Rhea Ripley.
Regardless of falling simply brief, Asuka was given one other potential path to WrestleMania when she competed in a ladies’s Elimination Chamber match on the same-titled pay-per-view in February for the best to face Belair at The Present of Reveals.
The Empress went up towards a number of the finest feminine Superstars WWE has to supply in Morgan, Raquel Rodriguez, Carmella, Nikki Cross and Natalya, however she outlasted all of them to turn out to be No. 1 contender.
Together with her ‘Mania opponent in place, Belair started scouting Asuka in an effort to see what she can be in for on The Grandest Stage of Them All.
The EST initially appeared shocked and even perhaps afraid of her rival, particularly when she stared into Belair’s eyes whereas blue mist poured out of her mouth following a win over Cross on Uncooked.
Belair and Asuka entered the most important present of the yr with differing ranges of success at WrestleMania, as the previous beat Sasha Banks and Becky Lynch in back-to-back years, whereas the latter’s solely singles matches on the occasion had been losses to Ripley and Charlotte Aptitude.
Asuka aimed to lastly get within the win column at WrestleMania 39, however Belair continued her dominance on the occasion by retaining the Uncooked ladies’s title.
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