Asuka has launched a tirade on STARDOM and how the company has negatively impacted her career and how she has felt personally.
The Japanese star is one of the greatest women’s wrestlers to ever do it and has the championships to show for it. Having won everything there is to win for a woman in WWE, she has reimagined herself once again in WWE over the course of 2023. Returning at the Royal Rumble resembling her murder clown persona, we have seen an even more vicious Asuka than ever before.
However, with that fame and legacy comes the detractors that come with it. On Sunday evening, Asuka would make multiple posts to social media, attacking STARDOM and the former bosses of the promotion and the Japanese media who questioned her rise in WWE.
“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,”
Asuka
STARDOM’s Mina Shirakawa would respond to Asuka’s tweets, noting that she is so proud of the former WWE Women’s Champion.
Nice to meet you,ASUKA-san. You are definitely on top of the world. You are showing us that we can achieve great success by being true to ourselves. As a fellow Japanese, I’m so proud of you. I follow the path that I believe in, and I climb high mountains even in storms. Beyond that, I feel you are there.
Mina Shirakawa
STARDOM have produced several stars that have found their way to WWE, including KAIRI Sane and IYO SKY, who have both had successful careers in WWE.
We will have to wait and see if Asuka can bounce back from her recent title loss.
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