10 Reasons Shinsuke Nakamura's WWE Run Will Fail

10. His Debut Sucked

Across the wrestling fan populous, people broadly offered both men a wide berth in an effort to show support to both Shinsuke Nakamura and perennial online favourite Dolph Ziggler, but their Backlash opener was irrefutably a major disappointment.

Their 15 minute match failed to exhibit the best of either. Months into a tepid heel run, Ziggler has yet to find his mojo as a villain after years as a face, and struggled to generate a reaction during a lengthy portion on offence against the 'King of Strong Style'. Nakamura was equally poor at generating sympathy for the dull beating he absorbed, before just about waking the crowd up in time for his match-winning Kinshasa.

In defence of both performers, it was completely the wrong match for the task at hand. Without good context, Nakamura's matches need to be short sharp shocks of his literal greatest hits and little else. Ziggler seemed a perfect first opponent, famed more for his overzealous selling in recent years than just about any other aspect of his game.

It's a mystery why WWE felt a formula television match was instead the answer. It made Nakamura look limited in attack, and Dolph a time wasting buffoon.