The skilled wrestling free company market has by no means had extra eyes on it than 2024, the place seemingly extra main names have moved from promotion to promotion than ever earlier than. This contains Kazuchika Okada leaving New Japan for AEW, Ricochet becoming a member of AEW from WWE, Ethan Web page leaving AEW for WWE, and Kamille leaving NWA for AEW, with former WWE star Bobby Lashley and AEW stars the Lucha Brothers presumably leaping ship sooner or later as effectively.
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One title that will not be making a bounce, nonetheless, is Asuka. PWInsider Elite reviews that the five-time WWE Girls’s Champion has come to phrases with WWE on what was described as a “long-term contract.” The particular phrases concerning the brand new deal weren’t disclosed, although the deal will assure Asuka greater than a decade in WWE, having first signed with the promotion again in August 2015.
It has been a profitable run for Asuka, which, along with her 5 Girls’s Championship reigns, has seen her win the Girls’s Royal Rumble and Girls’s Cash within the Financial institution matches in 2018 and 2020 respectively, and the WWE Girls’s Tag Workforce Championships 4 occasions. Asuka had most not too long ago held mentioned championships with Kabuki Warriors accomplice and Injury CTRL stablemate Kairi Sane, profitable the Girls’s Tag Titles in January earlier than dropping them to Jade Cargill and Bianca Belair in Might.
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The one draw back to Asuka’s extension is that it comes at a time whereas she’s at the moment inactive, having been on the shelf with a knee damage she first suffered again in March, although she biefly continued to work by means of it. The damage pressured Asuka to tug out of the Queen of the Ring match and led to her having surgical procedure in June. No timetable has been set for when she’ll return.
