Today marks the 10 year anniversary for Asuka in WWE.
On Sept. 23, 2015, Asuka made her debut appearance in NXT during a confrontation with Emma and Dana Brooke. Asuka’s signing with WWE was the first Japanese woman to join the company since Bull Nakano in 1994. She has been wrestling since 2004.
Asuka responded as follows on her decade career thus far with WWE.
I believe that ideals and convictions, what one sets out to achieve, hold more value than what one has actually accomplished.
I have obtained every record, everything there is to obtain, but these are all merely waypoints. What has universal value and beauty is pioneering a new era, possessing the power to change the times.
That’s why I pursue how I can bring change and ideals to the ring, creating ‘before and after Kana’ and ‘before and after Asuka.’
Creating a path is far more difficult than walking down a path that others have made. And therein lies the most beautiful aesthetic of all.
For me, living as a pioneer and living with conviction, philosophy, and aesthetics is a very important way of life 🤡
Asuka’s accomplishments in WWE:
- 3x WWE Women’s Champion
- SmackDown Women’s Champion
- NXT Women’s Champion
- 914 Day undefeated streak
- 4 x WWE Women’s Tag Team Champion
- 2020 Money in the Bank
- 2018 Women’s Royal Rumble (inaugural)
- Mixed Match Challenge winner
- Third Women’s Triple Crown
- Second Women’s Grand Slam