10 Things You Might Have Missed On The WWE SmackDown Live! Superstar Shake-Up (April 17)
10. Living His Best Life
Shinsuke Nakamura's instant salvation as a heel continued in earnest this week with yet more eccentric facials, sardonic physicality and dank humour in his verbal delivery.
A show-opening video package twisted and contorted his sensational "no speak Engrish" with jagged movements similar to those in his own entrance, whilst yet another attack on AJ Styles at the end of the show was as much an assault on the senses as it was AJ's sensitive area.
Going low on Styles for the third time in as many weeks, Nakamura grizzled and growled between the ropes as if he was a deranged Jack Nicholson peering through a permanently damaged door in the deathly hallows of a horrific hotel. Sharing a 'Shining'-esque evil within him, he slithered away twice - once into the crowd and once up the ramp to again feign ignorance and indifference for his actions when pushed by roving reporter Renee.
Fans haven't been afforded sight nor sound of his beloved entrance since WrestleMania, and may never again if the company smartly get shot of it before his next high profile clash. It's now too precious for a performer so vile, and would hugely extenuate a babyface turn should one emerge in the future.