Five People That Will Be Negatively Affected By The Asuka Versus James Ellsworth Storyline

#4 Smackdown Live

Its

no secret that this feud isn't going to turn Smackdown Live into The A show.

WWE has been trying to build up Smackdown Live as a viable alternative to Raw for a while now, but fails time and time again to actually do it. Unfortunately for The WWE, they are quickly losing ground to Raw due to storylines like this and will probably continue to do so until they go back to the drawing board.

In the meantime, however, WWE is going to have to deal with sagging ratings, which could end this storyline quicker than expected. Then again, WWE brought James Ellsworth back for a reason and Asuka will, unfortunately, be the first of many experiments in inter-gender wrestling on the blue brand.

In the end, it would probably work better if WWE did some intergender tag team matches, which would allow the company to tell two stories at the same time. It also would cover up the problem of a guy superstar not really being allowed to fight back against women, which is probably what the problem is with Ellsworth versus Asuka