{"id":332503,"date":"2026-05-10T19:56:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T14:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=332503"},"modified":"2026-05-10T19:56:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T14:26:34","slug":"asuka-possibly-leaving-wwe-ewrestlingnews-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/10\/asuka-possibly-leaving-wwe-ewrestlingnews-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Asuka Possibly Leaving WWE? &#8211; eWrestlingNews.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_91\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>Despite a robust effort, Asuka got here up short against IYO SKY at WWE Backlash 2026 within the culmination of their student-versus-teacher rivalry.<\/p>\n<p>After the match, the 2 shared an emotional embrace as Asuka soaked within the response from the group in Tampa, Florida. SKY also made sure to offer her former mentor her flowers, directing the highlight toward Asuka following the hard-fought contest.<\/p>\n<p>In the course of the Backlash 2026 post-show, Big E. reflected on the emotional moment and admitted that he was unsure what it could mean for Asuka\u2019s future. He said,<\/p>\n<p><em><b>\u201cI don\u2019t (want to take a position) either. I&#8217;m wondering if it is a goodbye. I haven\u2019t really seen Asuka this emotional. If that is goodbye, I do know she might be dearly missed. She has been a pioneer; she has done just truly incredible things within the ring before she even got to WWE but has further staked her claim as an all-time great here in WWE. I don\u2019t know what this implies, but shout out to IYO SKY for an additional incredible performance.\u201d<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> If you might have any news suggestions or podcast recaps that you just\u2019d wish to send in for us to post (full credit might be given to you), please email me at <span class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"e1b3a28d80938ab1b6b2a1b880898e8ecf828e8c\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite a robust effort, Asuka got here up short against IYO SKY at WWE Backlash 2026 within the culmination of their student-versus-teacher rivalry. After the match, the 2 shared an emotional embrace as Asuka soaked within the response from the group in Tampa, Florida. SKY also made sure to offer her former mentor her flowers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":332504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[23099,29086,2217,2952,6221],"class_list":["post-332503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-asuka","tag-ewrestlingnews-com","tag-leaving","tag-possibly","tag-wwe"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332503"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332506,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332503\/revisions\/332506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}