>>8683011He’s one of the biggest draws in Japan’s wrestling history after Inoki and Baba, his starpower is bigger than even the Four Pillars of Heaven and this is coming from a diehard Misaw mark. He’s the only Japanese wrestler to make it big in the US from scratch without having a long legacy behind him like Shinsuke.
Just look up his name here and see for yourself just how many times he main evented packed shows
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_professional_wrestling_attendance_records_in_Japan 