5 Reasons Shinsuke Nakamura Will Never Win The WWE Title

5. Promos

Now some of you out there might see this as a weird entry as we're currently living in a time where Jinder Mahal is whispering his way through monologues on SmackDown Live. However, while the current WWE Champion is afforded a slice of each promo to speak more naturally and menacingly in native tongue - kayfabe lads, kayfabe - of Punjab, WWE aren't trying to penetrate Japan like they are India, so broken English is the best we get from Nakamura.

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As we all know, if you're WWE Champion and you're not down to wrestle on a card, then you'll be out in the ring furthering a story with your mouth rather than the entirety of your body. And if you can't talk, you get Paul Heyman. And if you're not Brock Lesnar, you're f****d.

Nakamura's broken English, coupled with his mannerisms and facial expressions, could eerily steer him through promos like a bonafide mad man, but that would need WWE to truly understand what they have on their hands and as this article plays out we'll see they clearly don't.

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