7 baffling booking decisions from WrestleMania 34

#6 Why did Asuka tap out?

Asuka's winning streak had to end someday...but was this really the best way to do it?

This match was fantastic. It may have been the greatest women's wrestling match of all time. That said, the match's ending was hard to grasp.

For over two years, Asuka has been trucking her way through the entire women's roster, both in NXT and in WWE. She had never been pinned, never tapped out, never lost her NXT Women's Championship, and she seemed unbeatable....seemed.

Last night, Charlotte made Asuka tap out via the Figure-8 Leglock, thus ending the longest winning streak in WWE history. Now, the fact that Asuka's streak ended is not the problem - it's how it ended that's the problem.

Firstly, tapping out inherently makes an opponent appear weak, which damages a lot of Asuka's mystique. Secondly, Charlotte technically didn't lock the submission in entirely. While this was a masterful bit of selling, she was bridging with only one arm.

One would think that a missing arm would take some of the pressure off of the hold, or at least make it easier to reverse. Third, is anyone else bothered by the fact that Asuka lost in her first championship opportunity on the main roster?

She's been built as this "unstoppable force" for so long now, and now suddenly she can't win the big one? Fourth, the promo they had Asuka cut after she lost was emasculating; perhaps even worse for her image than the loss itself.

Fifth, if Charlotte is supposed to be a face, this isn't exactly a way to get people to continue cheering for her. Sixth, this would have been a perfect opportunity to have Carmella cash in, and it's a shame WWE didn't realize that.

To be fair, this was something that had to happen some time, and it definitely had to happen at the "Big Four" pay-per-view. But not this way, not by submission.