Like I said on the HOF show Kris and I did a couple of weeks ago, which he agreed with: Even if you're pro-Ishii, should he really get in ahead Meiko Satomura, who has consistently been one of the very best wrestlers in the world for roughly a quarter century? Should he even go ahead of the Briscoes, who are pretty much indisputably the longest-tenured great working tag team in wrestling history? I don't necessarily mind him going in, because he does have a massive resume of widely acclaimed matches and his career arc leading in to his HOF-level in-ring run is so bizarre that it feels like he deserves credit for shedding the journeyman label and getting over to the degree he did. But he wasn't even the best workrate candidate on the Japanese ballot. He just had the advantage of his run coinciding with the NJPW streaming boom.
Regardless, I'm...more or less fine with who got in. Nobody who I could never see myself voting for got in, and three candidates I voted for (Rocca/Perez, Beauty Pair, and Blue Panther) got in.
Also: It's fascinating to me that Randy Orton was the top vote getter among retired wrestlers and wrestling personnel, but didn't even reach the top thirty among any other voting block, even active wrestlers and wrestling personnel. It's like they're voting for the idea of Randy Orton more than the actual Randy Orton.
I do think Dave needs to split up "Rest of the World," though, and more or less reset it to what it was before a few years ago. Europe can be a category with maybe the Middle East and Africa thrown in if needed because there was a decent amount of overlap, the Jim Barnett/Steve Rickard countries can be another (with maybe Hawaii thrown in as Dave has done before), and Puerto Rico can just be thrown in with U.S./Canada.