After winning last year's Royal Rumble match, things were looking good for Shinsuke Nakamura. Unfortunately, his dream match against then WWE Champion AJ Styles at WrestleMania ended in disappointment when he lost and while his heel turn had promise, it ended with a series of defeats.
Since then, Nakamura has quickly fallen down the card and hasn't been seen on TV for months (he was last shown tagging with Rusev).
Now, the King of Strong Style has addressed his current role in the company and after noting that
"my position is up and down everyday" he says he is
"living with it."
"I have no complaints about the tag [team] with Rusev. Even in singles, we [had] five battles to know each other’s goodness, and because we are both foreigners in the U.S., we also have sympathy. I do not like Rusev as much as I like, so it may be that each other’s schedule doesn’t match. There is still a place to explore. It is said that both Rusev and I are better at singles, but it is not bad as we see different scenes by assembling tags."
It doesn't sound like Nakamura is overly happy with how he's being used but it is what it is and it seems as if he's just accepted it. We know that Nakamura is making considerably more money in America than in Japan and now he's settled with his family, it's highly unlikely he'll leave WWE in the near future.
With any luck, though, things will start looking up for him.