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Asuka Opens Up About Her Battle With Japanese Media Hatred

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Asuka Opens Up About Her Battle With Japanese Media Hatred

Asuka is one of the greatest female wrestlers in the modern era. She joined WWE in 2015 and was undefeated until WrestleMania 34. The Empress has accomplished a lot of things within the past eight years.

The former Women’s Champion was a big star in Japan before signing with WWE. Asuka issued a series of tweets and stated that the Japanese media still hates her. She added that STARDOM (sister promotion of NJPW) was created to destroy her personally. The Empress also stated that the media outlets wanted to see her fail. However, Asuka further stated that she has support from Triple H, Charlotte Flair, and Becky Lynch.

“I don’t flatter anyone.
Even in Japan, the media hated me because I don’t flatter the media.
In Japan, everyone was flirting with the media except me.
I fought the media alone to take care of my fans. That’s why some of the Japanese media still hate me.
That’s why I’ve always been a freelancer.
And Everyone in Japan knows I am anti-Joshi Pro. Always.”

“The former editor-in-chief of Pro Wrestling Weekly has made this point on several occasions.
That is, Stardom is an organization that was created to defeat me. It is an organization that was created to destroy me personally.
But they failed to defeat me.
I don’t know what happened to them after that because I came to America.”

“The media could not bring me down when I came to America. They must have really wanted me to fail.

I am used to it because I have been fighting my critics alone since my days in Japan.
But now that I am here, I have comrades in arms.
Charlotte, Becky, HHH and…
I’ve walked alone in the wilderness all my life, and here I have an oasis.
To the Asuka antis, I say, beat me up on the Internet all you want.
I grab everything.”

“When I became champion, one media outlet asked wrestling fans, “Do you think it is good enough to be champion? “Do you think it deserves to be champion?”

Compare me to other people.
Do you think my abilities are inferior?
Can you believe that? I was always fighting that media all by myself.”

Last week, Asuka faced Bianca Belair and Charlotte in a Triple Threat match for the WWE Women’s Championship at SummerSlam. The Empress dropped the title to Belair. However, Iyo Sky cashed in her Money in the Bank contract on Belair to become the new champion.

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