>>9733282Stardom as a promotion is pretty bad.
There is sparse and sporadic storytelling. Angles are developed randomly, few and far between, with little rhyme or reason behind them, but are mostly nonexistent.
Regularly books multi-man tag matches just to fit everyone on the card; has utterly nonsensical rules about how those work that can't be understood just by watching.
They train their girls to do spots and little else, and make them rehearse and plan their matches to embarrassingly exact detail with tons of obvious cooperation; very few of them understand psychology, in-ring storytelling, calling matches in the ring, pacing, and so on, and are not trained to grasp these things.
Wins and losses truly do not matter, there are barely any plans about who gets pushed and who doesn't, with only current champions being booked to consistently win, and are allowed to hold their titles for extended periods of time even if they are fumbling.
Their outreach past the Japanese audience is half-hearted to nonexistent; their YouTube content is uploaded untranslated, and their own paid subscription service uploads shows several days up to weeks late after they happen, and not even in their entirety, with multiple sections cut for no justifiable reason. They only livestream ppvs and press conferences.
They still run small venues like high school gyms.
As for the wrestlers, most of them are mediocre and are carried by their appeal to certain tastes in terms of look and personality. They mostly wrestle the same style with varying degrees of competence, spotfests with lots of shouting and screaming, out of ring brawls, interference, frequent pin attempts, long matches, yadda yadda.
There are less than a handful of exceptionally talented and worth-watching girls there.
Despite all that, it's still a higher floor than elsewhere.
