>>18377007Alright BRO, if that is your real name.
Listen here. You're like, not accounting for how fickle and generational people's memory is and stuff dude, and it IS a debate. When the mofos who read about Jim Londos in the newspaper dropped dead, ceased to be, left this mortal coil, nobody knew who the fuck Jim Londos was anymore after that because do you really think anyone is paying attention to the sports section of the 20s in their high school history textbook?
Inoki and Rikidozan, particularly Riki, were like even more important than that to the Japanese, but if you were to ask some random Japanese gen alpha born in THIS CENTURY what the fuck a Rikidozan was he might think its a character in a mobile game.
Hogan feels the most important because 80% of the population on earth are boomers, millenials, and zoomers and he was around at some point in all of our lives. If you were born in 1940, you probably don't give a damn about Hogan, and if you were born in 2007 you probably barely know who he is. Kids in elementary school right now will have absolutely no idea who he is when they are adults.
All of the people in this debate are not wrestling nerd celebrities, they're LEGIT celebrities/historical figures. If you were alive when they were on top you knew them, even if you didn't watch wrestling at all. So you can't compare any of these people in any way other than how much they drew, how much coverage they got from the press, and how famous they were outside of wrestling.
Wrestling stars are doomed to this fate because their sport is non-objective and rigged. You can't be the best wrestler, only the most famous. Babe Ruth's near super human skill at baseball compared to other human beings ensures his legacy as the best that ever did it and will be studied for a long time, but that's totally separate from his fame/drawing ability. People who "study" how matches are "worked" exist, but are a niche even among wrestling fans. Less common than baseball nerds.
