*is the biggest draw in wrestling history*
HOLY FUCKING BASED
*is the biggest draw in wrestling history*
Thomas Baker
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Ayden Parker
>almost killed his company like a fucking retard because of his hard on for MMA
Michael Martin
*prays to Allah*
Logan Russell
Made his stars more legitimate
Aiden Brown
He isn’t actually a practicing Muslim though is he? Didn’t he only convert to Islam so he could go the the Taliban and free Japanese hostages?
Jaxon Bailey
WOW INOKI WHAT A GRAND IDEA
Liam Barnes
Pretty much. He'll never openly say it though. The closest statement we've got is this:
>Inoki has reportedly described himself as both a Muslim convert and a Buddhist.
Pretty sure you can't be both of these things.
Evan Thomas
Don't reply to low quality posts.
If that was the reason, why wasn't it made public then, and why would he make it public two decades later and after Saddam died? And it was Saddam, not the Taliban. He went and did sports diplomacy by wrestling there.
Isaac Wilson
Islam and Buddhism can easily be interpreted exactly the same. It’s two sides of the same coin.
Josiah Gonzalez
Weren't Rikidozan, Baba and Jumbo bigger draws?
Nathan Sullivan
It was a bad idea, but if we're gonna be fair, the guy that came the closest to beating Fedor for a decade was an Inokist.
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Austin Hernandez
>Pretty sure you can't be both of these things.
Who says? There are no exemptions to the phenomenon of syncretism. Just what anti-syncretists want to be the case, but really isn't, that muh sect, just like muh waifu, is pure. Iran and Iraq were on the verge of being ruled by Christian Buddhists in the 13th century.
Lucas James
Almost all religions are exactly the same, they just have different coloured people believing them.
Bentley Jenkins
The guy that came the closest would be Randleman because Fedor survived the suplex basically through luck.
Hunter Rogers
MMA NJPW still drew twice the amount of people than current NJPW
Jose Ramirez
Don't reply to low quality posts. Report, hide, scroll, repeat.
Owen Ward
If that was true the company wouldn't have been hemorrhaging money. Inoki notoriously uses inflated numbers.
Landon Jones
Baaed
John Howard
Rikidozan, El Santo, Jim Londos
Isaiah Johnson
>territory draws
yikes
Jack Rivera
>Rikidozan
Ha
>El Santo
Hahahahaha
>Jim Londos
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA OOOOH LORD HAHAHAHAHA
Jaxon Cooper
Cities in which Londos drew multiple 20,000+ crowds as a main eventer:
Philadelphia, PA
Madison Square Garden, NY
St.Louis, MO
Washington DC
Yankee Stadium, NY
Toronto, ONT
Memphis, TN
Athens, Greece
Middle East??
Los Angeles, CA
Sydney, Australia
Detroit, MI
Fenway Park, Boston
Buffalo, NY
Wrigley Field
Rose Bowl, CA
Johannesberg, South Africa
Charlotte, NC
Cleveland, OH
David Nguyen
Inoki seems to be blocking him
Ayden Reyes
You almost had me until that Jim Londos part. I don't think the pesos that Santo drew could match up to the yen and international money Inoki did also.
Easton Sanchez
He was never one of the boys. Wasn't he a gay porn model? Buff Bagwell of his generation.
Mason Harris
BASED AND TRUTHPILLED. Nu Japanlet actually seethes at the thought their so called """golden boom"""" period still couldn't outdraw any mid 2000 tokyo dome show
Thomas Brooks
>them getting BTFO literally killed their star power and nearly the company
Why doesn't IGF currently out-draw ANY other company in Japan? Why aren't they #1? Why are you Inoki fags so delusional?
>Inoki books his own funeral for a show
>IT DOESN'T SELL OUT
OH NO NO NO NO NO!
Nolan Wright
*early 2000s
Christopher Mitchell
>asking for a company that has shut its doors to outdraw anything
Yeah I think the brain damage is real
Andrew Barnes
Good sell.
John Martin
>he doesn't know russians have adamantium necks
Liam Foster
Pride was a work, marks
James Phillips
>Company falls off hard after he gets kicked out and only starts to draw almost as well 15 years later
Bullshit narrative you have there
Hudson Brooks
Bump
Thomas Murphy
t. faithless fool
Charles Hall
Jumbo no, tho surprisingly close, but Baba and Rikidozan were absolutely bigger draws.
Nicholas Richardson
Company was already falling off hard. The Yukes era slowed down the financial decline while increasing attendance. I wouldn't say Yukes was all that great, but it wasn't as bad as the nosedive the Inokis plunged NJPW into in the early 00s.