>>8603097Baba's value is less as an in-ring personality and more as a business man and booker
A lot of the reason there's so much mysticism and reverence for japanese wrestling in the western wrestling world is because of the practices and philosophy baba enforced
He treated western wrestlers with immense respect and treated them just as well as he did his japanese talent, he gave them great hotel rooms, first class flights, and generally booked them in ways the neither side had problems with. He was always open to talks and was a mild mannered, calm and rational man, which just made all the workers he had under him love him even more. He's the reason so many workers wanted to do time in japan, even a guy like cornette liked old AJPW
Inoki's value however, can not be understated. He was a carny bodhisattva. He worked saddam hussain and fidel castro into opening up relations with japan. He worked in north korea. He carned mike tyson.
Inoki outshines him, but I still consider it a double Michaels
