>>45673137You have to remember Holofes is the Main Event of the year and an idol performance. Your stack rankings should be of the holos as idols, yes being able to draw comes into play to a degree which is why some of your best technicians (Aki, Nene) get buried in the undercard, especially the heels (Lap, Matsuri)
However, you want your biggest faces at the top of the card and winning, this is why Aqua and Sora closed even if one isn't super popular with the smarks anymore and the other only comes out of retirement when she feels like it a la The Rock
Theyre there because they are at the top of the Idol stack and you need that base to juxtapose your other talents, even ones that might be bigger draws especially if they are comedy talents (Pekora). For instance if you have an anti-idol like Coco she needs there to be idols for her act to work. Marine treads that line way better and is more of a tweener but it's the same dynamic, if you put them in a company without any babyface idols, well...just look at whats happened to Kson in vHojo. They dont understand the talent they signed and have failed miserably with her booking
You also dont want to push any international or off-brand talents too hard unless they prove themselves as transcendent with high approval over time. They can be there as a sideshow for flippyshit to mix things up in the under and middlecard but you want to pander to your core fans and they want to see the ideal version of people like them win, otherwise you end up with vanilla midgets against randos who cant speak your language in the main event. Vince would never allow that to happen unless it was a babyface against a megaheel kaigai and thats why he's smashed all these fly by night corpos who do that garbage like bugs. Gura is the only talent with Rey Mysterio potential to breakthrough the international debuff but she hasnt grinded like Rey, she needs to prove she can sustain popularity in JP