>>5507387Are you really pretending that any wrestler is a major star outside of wrestling?
Arguing about star power with wrestling fans is just arguing whether a guy worked for a bigger company with larger market share. That's all that that amounts to.
Meltzer bases his ratings and HOF on that retarded logic, but you should do better. Also, Dieno is legitimately the most well rounded wrestler in the world and can get anything over. If you view wrestling as the narrative, entertainment medium that it is supposed to be then Dieno is the best wrestler in the world. If you are some retard who thinks wrestling is sport then you can go around acting as if 90000 random moves is the best thing ever.
I think it's good to note that whenever I show people who have never watched wrestling some wrestling they always love DDT and TJPW. A large percentage become regular viewers. They normally dislike new japan and particularly hate Okada and Tanahashi. NOAH main events are normally OK for them but the rest of the card they hate on. Stardom is the one they tend to hate most, just above AEW and wwe. Hustle goes down well, of course. I have not experimented with other promotions enough for further statistics as of right now.
Bigger companies have more exposure and they have "journalists" advertising them for free on their sheets to mouth breathing, tshirt fans. Booking a guy as the top guy in a top company for drones to attach themselves to is a really weak argument for "being a star".
I would argue that a guy carrying a small indy and it growing during a period when every other company nearly died in Japan, I'd call that star power. DDT becoming 2nd/3rd biggest Japanese company with HARASHIMA and Dieno is far more impressive than Tanahashi getting stabbed by a woman and the company having its lowest popularity ever under him.
