5 mistakes WWE made with Shinsuke Nakamura in 2017

#4 Not giving him a manager

Paul Heyman would have been the perfect advocate for Nakamura

A superstar essentially needs two capabilities to be a great wrestler; be proficiently talented in the squared circle and secondly have natural promo skills. While most legends in wrestling history had truly embodied those both these characteristics. There are a select few that had encapsulating personalities which masked their lack of in-ring skill and there were hard hitters that truly let their fists do the talking.

Shinsuke Nakamura is a wrestler whose first language is Japanese. However, he is one of those wrestlers that don’t need words to make an impact, as his unique wrestling ability and megastar presence speaks louder than words. Since Nakamura’s Smackdown Live debut, WWE has chosen to display his weaknesses and not take advantage of his above strengths. From the onset, WWE should have paired the Japanese megastar with a manager that is a verbal master on the mic.

The perfect man to advocate for the former IWGP Heavyweight Champion would’ve been Paul Heyman. Without Heyman, there is no telling how far WWE could’ve made Lesnar feel like a larger than life presence in the company. And if WWE is seriously going to book Nakamura as a main event player in 2018, they need to start concealing his biggest weakness, promos.