Ranking EVERY WWE Superstar's 2018 From Worst To Best

28. Shinsuke Nakamura

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Had his best ever night with WWE at the Royal Rumble, contradicting his detractors, the #14 curse and the notion that WWE won't (sometimes) push a foreign babyface. It was all undone by a d*ck-punching heel turn on AJ Styles after his WrestleMania title match. They never had the expected classic, and Nakamura - when he could make it on television - was a sneering anti-American heel by the summer.

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