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Major news regarding future plans for the Raw women’s division

The RAW brand is currently in the process of restructuring the entire women’s division, in order to welcome it’s newest addition and centre piece: the record breaking former NXT Women’s Champion, Asuka.

Asuka relinquished the NXT Women’s Championship after sustaining an injury during her match with Ember Moon at NXT Takeover: Brooklyn III. William Regal also announced on the latest episode of NXT that Asuka is main roster bound. As reported by myself via dirtysheets.net, Asuka is set to debut on the RAW brand.

Last week, Dave Meltzer speculated that Emma was solely added to the Raw Championship match to take the pinfall in the Fatal 4 Way match at No Mercy, in order to protect the other three women.

However, our sources have revealed that this is definitely not the case, as all the women involved have traded multiple wins and losses to each other and the WWE don’t put a heavy emphasis on any of their win/loss records.

The real reason Emma was added to the match and has gained pinfalls over Mickie James and Sasha Banks in recent weeks, has been to build more credible competition for Asuka to beat on route to securing the RAW Women’s Championship.

Prior to Bayley being injured, Bayley and Sasha Banks were the only viable contenders to Alexa Bliss. With Nia’s recent change of direction, Emma’s mini-push and with Sasha still being owed a one on one rematch, the WWE have laid the foundation for several months of TV and the impending Asuka debut.

The Fatal 4 Way for the RAW Women’s Championship will take place at No Mercy in two weeks, emanating from the Staples Center in LA.

It’s very hard to build a credible division with just 5 or 6 women. When WWE committed to brand split, I was an advocate of putting all the women on one brand. I also would have done the same with the tag teams and the cruiserweights.

If you had all the women on one brand and all the tag teams on another, it would’ve added much more depth and competition to divisions that are currently unquestionably stale. It would’ve also encouraged fans to watch both shows and would have significantly differentiated the RAW and SmackDown Live brands.

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WWE Confirms Asuka For RAW (Video)

It was confirmed on last night's RAW that former WWE NXT Women's Champion Asuka will be debuting with the red brand soon. Below is the first teaser for her arrival:

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Backstage News On Asuka Going To The WWE RAW Brand

As noted, WWE confirmed on last night's RAW that former WWE NXT Women's Champion Asuka will be debuting with the red brand soon.

It was noted on Wrestling Observer Radio that officials went back and forth on which brand she would be sent to. The feeling was that the depth on RAW is not as strong as on SmackDown and that Asuka will be better off on RAW.

It's believed that The Empress of Tomorrow will debut some time in October after she recovers from the right collarbone injury. A WWE Network Collection on Asuka is scheduled to kick off the month of October.

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There’s a chance WWE won’t have Emma take the pin in No Mercy’s Fatal 4-Way RAW Women's title match, because she’s slated to be Asuka’s first main roster rival and they want her to look as strong as possible for that.

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Asuka's WWE RAW Debut Announced

A new promo for Asuka aired on last night's WWE No Mercy 2017 PPV and confirmed that Asuka will make her red brand debut at the WWE TLC pay-per-view. TLC takes place on October 22nd from the Target Center in Minneapolis.

No word yet on what the undefeated former WWE NXT Women's Champion will be doing at TLC but we'll keep you updated.

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