5 Smackdown Superstars who would be a better champion than Jinder Mahal

#4 Shinsuke Nakamura

Shinsuke Nakamura

An unlikely choice for champion at the moment, especially since his damaging feud with Mahal for the past few months and a general malaise after his promotion to the main brand from NXT, Nakamura still possesses enormous charisma and a capacity to thrill a crowd in the ring.

His mic skills in English may be primitive and stilted, but in the hands of someone as talented as he is, it somehow fits in a strange and enigmatic way.

The bonus effect of having someone relatively uncomfortable in promos would also mean no 20-minute talking segments that feel like they last an hour, with Nakamura letting his Kinshasa do most of the talking for him.