Asuka sends a message to her critics.
Before she signed with WWE, Asuka was one of the top wrestlers in Japan. She had a successful tenure with Pro Wrestling Wave, among other companies. During her time with WWE, she has become one of the most decorated members of the roster, as she has won the SmackDown Championship and the WWE Women's Championship.
In a series of tweets, Asuka shared her thoughts. The series of posts started when she responded to a fan (who has since deleted their tweet) and noted that some of the Japanese media still hate her because she did not flatter them.
"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," Asuka said.
In another tweet, Asuka stated that STARDOM was created to defeat her and destroy her personally. She wrote that they failed, and she doesn't know what happened to them because she came to America.
"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," she wrote.
Asuka continued by stating that the media could not bring her down when she came to America, though they must have wanted her to fail. She wrote that she has been fighting her critics since her days in Japan, but now she has comrades in arms. Asuka specifically named Charlotte Flair, Becky Lynch, and Triple H. She told "Asuka antis" to "beat me up" on the Internet all they want.
"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," Asuka wrote.
The former champion then recalled how one outlet questioned her title win. She emphasized that she was always fighting that media by herself.
"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 said.
Asuka previously won the Raw Women's Championship, which was later renamed the WWE Women's Championship, by defeating Bianca Belair at WWE Night of Champions. Belair beat Asuka to win the title at WWE SummerSlam, but IYO SKY cashed in her Money in the Bank contract to defeat Bianca and win the gold.
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