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  • 6/22/2025
Asuka qualifies for the Queen of the Ring Finals SmackDown highlights, June 20, 2025
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00:00I'll give you my opinion right now as Alexa Bliss is starting to get some
00:05momentum here in a fatal four way that we saw Alexa, excuse me,
00:09we saw Asuka in last week, there are opportunities to hide from the firefight.
00:15You haven't got all the attention on you.
00:17This is singles now, so if there are any weaknesses in Asuka's game after that
00:21layoff, it's about to be exposed.
00:24Big A from Bliss, and then into the cover right away to advance to the finals,
00:28and getting that shoulder up was Asuka.
00:34Now she goes for the big kick, but instead it's a roll up, it's a roll up for Alexa.
00:39And now Sister Abigail's lined up, Wade.
00:42Out of nowhere.
00:43She's got Sister Abigail, but a roll up by Asuka countering it.
00:48What a sequence between these highly skilled former champions.
00:52Now a boot right to the temple.
00:54Put that to it, no, able to get the shoulders up.
00:58Asuka up top, could it be Missile Dropkick?
01:00Getting out of the way was Alexa Bliss.
01:03Bliss is too nimble.
01:04And she has the DDT to advance to the finals.
01:09Left shoulder gets up.
01:11I think she thought Asuka might have been playing possum.
01:15Maybe she was.
01:17Maybe she was indeed, as she's locking it in, flying arm bars locked in by Asuka.
01:23And that left arm, that right arm, excuse me, fully extended in the middle of the ring, and now a transition.
01:30Keep your eyes peeled here.
01:31She's looking for the submission here to advance herself.
01:35Got that Asuka lock, that modified version of it, and Bliss needs to get the hell out of there.
01:42She is desperate to get to that rope.
01:44She is torture on the limbs of Alexa Bliss, and there's no let up now from Asuka.
01:50There is it indeed.
01:52Hangman's neck breaker connecting.
01:54Can that neck breaker put it away?
01:56No, right shoulder gets up.
01:58And you do question, was that a mistake from Alexa Bliss when she was on the top rope,
02:04elected to drop down instead of going for that twisted Bliss?
02:09Sold out here in Grand Rapids, 11,134.
02:14And what a match they're getting in this Queen of the Ring semi-final.
02:17A banger right off the bat from two of the best with all the stakes of this one.
02:22Oh, I think Asuka was going for the Empress Impact, but instead, she ate that right hand from Bliss.
02:27Well, Bliss now the one perhaps playing Possum.
02:29What a battle of the minds it's been in this one.
02:33Oh, she's got her hung up and lands the drop kick.
02:37Completely unprotected was Asuka.
02:40We might be getting take two here, Jotak.
02:42Moments ago, she didn't go for it.
02:44There it is.
02:45Oh, but twisted Bliss with knees up, knees up.
02:50And there it is, Empress Impact, Asuka's done it.
02:57Take two, Alex.
02:59Take three, Alex!
03:01CAM Diet.
03:01MUSIC
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03:15noticeable.
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03:16Tophtown, Messi
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