{"id":14639,"date":"2018-02-24T19:38:48","date_gmt":"2018-02-25T00:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=14639"},"modified":"2018-02-24T19:38:48","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T00:38:48","slug":"elimination-chamber-preview-asuka-vs-nia-jax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/02\/24\/elimination-chamber-preview-asuka-vs-nia-jax\/","title":{"rendered":"Elimination Chamber Preview: Asuka vs. Nia Jax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><strong><em>Nia Jax fights for her right to a WrestleMania championship match against the undefeated Asuka this Sunday at WWE Elimination Chamber.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>January 15 &#8211; <i> <\/i><\/b><strong>Asuka<\/strong> and <strong>Nia Jax<\/strong> renewed their rivalry from NXT as the two most dominant figures in WWEs Women\u2019s Division went <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oypBOgW-fKE\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">head to head<\/a> on <i>Monday Night Raw.<\/i> In what was a very competitive match up between the two, WWE official <strong>Dan Engler<\/strong> (formerly known as <strong>Rudy Charles\u00a0<\/strong>in TNA\/Impact Wrestling) deemed \u201cThe Empress of Tomorrow\u201d the winner via referee stoppage as it seemed Jax was unable to stand after getting her left leg getting caught in between the ring post and steps.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Asuka vs. Nia Jax: Raw, Jan. 15, 2018\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oypBOgW-fKE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Fast forward to the 5th of February edition of <strong><i>Monday Night Raw<\/i><\/strong>, General Manager <strong>Kurt Angle<\/strong> made the announcement regarding the Women\u2019s Elimination Chamber match participants, Angle elaborated that he left out Jax for a reason. By leaving out Jax, he gave Nia a chance to punch her ticket to a guaranteed <i>Raw <\/i>Women\u2019s Championship match with the catch being to defeat Asuka at <i>Elimination Chamber. <\/i>If Jax would win against Asuka, she would be added into the <i>WrestleMania <\/i>match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The following week, after a competitive match between <strong>Bayley<\/strong> and <strong>Sasha Banks<\/strong>, Jax would exert herself after the match taking out the two. <i>Monday Night Raw\u2019s <\/i>backstage interviewer <strong>Charly Caruso<\/strong> would ask Jax the reasoning of her actions by \u201cinterjecting in something that has nothing to do with her.\u201d Jax would respond that what was between Bayley and Banks had everything to do with her. Further elaborating her point, Jax would say that both Bayley and Banks took Asuka to her limit in their respected matches and she just took the both of them out in seconds. Jax would say at <i>Elimination Chamber <\/i>she will break Asuka\u2019s streak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A week later on the 19th of February edition of <i>Monday Night Raw,<\/i> WWE Backstage Interviewer <strong>Renee Young<\/strong> would interview Asuka about her match with Nia Jax. Asuka would state that she controls her own destiny and that her destiny is to win the Women\u2019s Championship at <i>WrestleMania. <\/i>Asuka also stated that Jax loves to talk and instead of talking, Jax would submit against her before Nia would ambush Asuka hitting her with a Samoan Drop and three consecutive leg drops with one of those being on the back of the neck.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nia Jax ambushes Asuka: Raw, Feb. 19, 2018\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JtsbDrbHeZw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\"><i>Overview:<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\">The way that the match was brought into play, the writing made sense for this to happen. Their encounter on the 15th of January edition of <i>Raw <\/i>left some unfinished business between the two. It was a way to put Asuka over continuing the streak, but it left the idea open for the casual fan (that isn\u2019t familiar with NXT and don\u2019t have the network) or the die hard fan to think that maybe Asuka isn\u2019t unbeatable. Despite that, both Nia and Asuka have a significant history against each other and that goes back to NXT. Albeit unsuccessful against Asuka, Jax typically looked impressive in their match ups. This is expected to be a highly competitive match between the two, however this is made to make Asuka look strong to the audience that isn\u2019t familiar to her legacy in NXT.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Winner: Asuka via Submission. Asuka Lock leaving Nia unconscious without her tapping out.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The key of this match is making Asuka look stronger, while maintaining Nia&#8217;s dominant persona. WWE might of dropped the ball on Asuka when she debuted back in October however, they are doing a good job with Asuka as of late. In a matter of weeks, fans saw Asuka win the Rumble eliminating the longest reigning Divas Champion in <strong>Nikki Bella<\/strong>, then to defeat Sasha Banks and Bayley in back to back weeks, all in all Asuka is in a better position to succeed as long as the writers continue to see the value in \u201cThe Empress of Tomorrow.\u201d Let\u2019s not forget, Asuka hasn\u2019t made her decision quite yet regarding who will she face at <i>WrestleMania <\/i>so there\u2019s a slight chance that Asuka may not even be a part of the <i>Raw <\/i>roster. Nonetheless, this match result mentioned, is the best way to put them both over. By Nia not tapping out, it showcases her toughness, getting over in defeat. Asuka winning this was shows why the hype behind her heading in to the main roster was indeed justified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nia Jax fights for her right to a WrestleMania championship match against the undefeated Asuka this Sunday at WWE Elimination Chamber. January 15 &#8211; Asuka and Nia Jax renewed their rivalry from NXT as the two most dominant figures in WWEs Women\u2019s Division went head to head on Monday Night Raw. In what was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2484,"featured_media":14670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,25,320],"tags":[229,505,105,602],"class_list":["post-14639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-raw","category-wwe-women","tag-asuka","tag-elimination-chamber","tag-monday-night-raw","tag-nia-jax"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2484"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}