>>830The numbers are even more telling when you look at events outside of Korakuen. Outside of the spikes which are directly correlated to PPV blowoffs of their road series, the average NJPW road show draws comperable to what TJPW does in Itabashi Green Hall. Itabashi Green Hall is a civil service building housing the Itabashi Ward Welfare Office and their max capacity is 300 seats.
In the biggest non-arena venue in Japan NJPW is averaging what TJPW averages drawing in a literal welfare office.
>But that is a dishonest comparison, you can't just compare this without factoring in the PPV that have the highest draws of the year for NJPWOkay then lets just add in Cyber Fight Festival from two days ago which drew 4800 people and that narative is completely wrecked by drawing nearly seven times as much as NJPW's highest drawing show of the year baring Dominion which has not had the numbers come in yet.
I haven't even finished digging into the DDT and NOAH numbers yet as I am still building my spread sheets and graphing them, but Mutoh's run has been extremely damaging to Bushiroad's profit margin. The only hope for them that I see is that Stardom appears to be drawing more consistently and with a higher average than NJPW.