5 mistakes WWE made with Shinsuke Nakamura in 2017

#2 Involving him in lacklustre feuds

Enter c — The lack of established superstars on the blue brand affected Nakamura's main roster run

Nakamura experienced a very successful run in NXT. That was only possible due to factors of; being an extremely talented wrestler, having respect from every fan in the Full Sail arena and most importantly having the opportunity to feud with world-class athletes. Samoa Joe, Finn Balor and Austin Aries constantly stole the show with Nakamura in the NXT ring.

Therefore, after establishing Nakamura as a wrestling great to the WWE Universe, WWE had a plethora of options to choose from for his 2017 feuds on Smackdown Live. Sami Zayn, Randy Orton and John Cena were all available at least once throughout 2017 to have a memorable feud with Nakamura.

Instead, the King of Strong Style was pushed into disappointing feuds. Nakamura’s inaugural feud was with Dolph Ziggler, a wrestler that WWE has struggled to fully utilize for his entire career. A pay-per-view match with Baron Corbin had followed to only further waste Nakamura’s star presence. Finally, WWE had inexplicably sucked Nakamura into the ‘Jinder Mahal experiment’ that resulted in the former being needlessly sacrificed twice to put over the average champion.

Although most of those feuds ended with a Nakamura victory. None of those rivalries managed to progress, highlight, and draw attention to Nakamura’s presence on the Smackdown Live roster. Although a dream match between Nakamura and AJ Styles can get the former back to his past glory, these lacklustre feuds have undoubtedly left a bad stench on Nakamura’s legendary career.

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