The women all did a great job last night, but the booking was baffling bad.
Alexa has no business going into Mania as champ. Not even Alexa v Asuka or Alexa v Ronda is something anyone wants to see or comes off like a believable big time Mania match. So your two top babyfaces that are supposed to be friends come off looking like idiots turning on each other and crying pathetically afterwards while your chickenshyt heel wins clean and gloats afterward? :jagfan: Worst finish I've seen in a long time.
And the Asuka Nia match only made things worse. If anything, Nia needed to win last night so there could be the dynamic of the Nia Alexa friendship working together in a 3 way with Asuka. I know there's the streak and all, but even that is kinda ruined now because Asuka actually got dominated by Nia and basically won with a lucky rollup, then got beat down again afterward. The whole point of the winning streak storyline in wrestling is to get someone over as an unstoppable force. Nia squashed that yesterday, so now the streak doesn't mean much, Asuka looks weaker than she did before the match and you didn't even add Nia to it.
Really, really dumb decisions being made.
And like I said, it's a shame because in-ring all the women were great and put on great matches. In-ring performances deliver but they're failed by inept booking. I guess they finally ARE on equal ground as the men.