8 booking mistakes WWE must avoid at Survivor Series 2017

Mistake 2: Asuka being eliminated

We must see the Undefeated Empress reign over this match.

While the presence of Asuka very likely means that Raw's women's team will triumph at Survivor Series (and was reportedly one of the reasons WWE decided to have Natalya drop the SmackDown Women's Championship to Charlotte), you never know for sure. A count out or disqualification isn't out of the question. This would be a grave mistake.

Asuka's main roster rollout hasn't gone perfectly. She needs some momentum and Survivor Series elimination matches can be a very good way of building it. Asuka should be the killer she was advertised as, rampaging through SmackDown's team and scoring a come from behind victory for team Raw as the sole survivor in the match.

Establishing a force of destruction has worked wonders in both past and present (see: Braun Strowman) for compelling wrestling television and it would be the next step up in WWE's much-ballyhooed "women's revolution/evolution." That's a role for Asuka to play. Whoever winds up returning for team SmackDown (Paige or Nikki Bella are the current favourites) doesn't alter this dynamic. It's especially important with WWE's audience now being 40% female.

To establish Asuka as the women's division's destructive impulse, she needs to be the star of this match. Anything less is an atrocious long-term mistake. Given the rumours of the bookers fretting and changing the card because of Asuka's presence here, that might not be likely, but again, you never know.