Big Bad Blog Video Theater-Asuka vs Charlotte Flair

Here's the match video of Asuka vs Charlotte Flair from last night's episode of Smackdown. They billed this as a Wrestlemania rematch. But it's really a preview of this Sunday's three way TLC match for the Smackdown Women's Championship. And the champ Becky Lynch was in attendance. The difference between this match and the Wrestlemania match is Charlotte is now supposed to be a heel. So she's overconfident and she thinks she can just run over Asuka. She can knock Asuka down but she can't keep her down. Of course Asuka is so good at selling offense and building the intensity of her comebacks. This leads to Charlotte getting frustrated and she makes mistakes. Asuka takes advantage of those mistakes. After Charlotte moonsaults into an Asuka Lock, they roll outside and Charlotte grabs a kendo stick from beneath the ring. She hits Asuka and gets DQd. Becky says something and tried to walk away. But Charlotte hits her with the kendo stick. Becky returns fire and while they are fighting, Asuka recovers and clobbers both of them with the kendo stick. That was quite the visual. The show ends with Asuka standing tall on the announce table. So I guess this means Becky is cleared for Sunday's match. It doesn't seem likely that Becky will retain the title. What is likely is she will win the Royal Rumble and then face Ronda Rousey at Wrestlemania. I expect Charlotte vs Asuka to continue their feud until Wrestlemania too. The TLC match should be interesting as it's the first ever women's TLC match. Who knows what crazy stuff Asuka will come up with. They don't do TLC matches in Japan. It should be fun. Enjoy the video!