Balls Mahoney
2015-2016 HF Premier League World Champion
The match was meh. It should have been Nakamura going in, doing his sports, killing Ziggler and winning easily. It should have been a glorified squash match.
It wasn't. Nakamura was going at 20%, Ziggler was Ziggler and took far too much of the match.
I didn't see any of NXT Nakamura but I imagine WWE Nakamura would be about 20% New Japan Nakamura except when he goes into christ mode twice a year for Summerslam and Wrestlemania. The thing with Nakamura is he's nearly pure gaga as he doesn't strike me as being all that spectacular in a WWE ring. But I didn't see his NXT work, so I'm willing to be corrected on this thought.
Still Nakamura kicked out of all of Ziggler's big moves and it was about 60/40 Nakamura. Remember this was a match to give him street cred as he was in the ring with "two-time former champion Dolph Ziggler" so I don't think it would have done much for either guy if Nakamura to ate him up.