When that money is made entirely because of his wrestling career, yes.
How is this a bad argument that Foley was a draw? JBL didn't make his money from telling stories about his wrestling career, now did he? If you're making the WWE a shit-ton of money with your merchandise, you're drawing. It's not all about attendance, it includes everything from TV ratings to merch sales, all of this "draws" money.
That's an absolutely bollocks argument. Buying merchandise may qualify, because that is dependant on how over someone is. A well written book is independant of wrestling ability though. If your giving Foley credit for bringing in WWE money, then you better be prepared to argue that Jakks Pacific is also a better wrestler than a world champion.
People didn't run out to buy Foley's book in mass because they wanted to read about his childhood or something, they bought it because Foley was a huge star during the most popular period in wrestling history and he drew them in on that alone. This is pretty much the definition of drawing money, doesn't have to be live attendance.
They bought it for the novelty of reading a well written genuine autobiography from within the wrestling world. If Al Snow had written the same book, it would have done as well in the mainstream market. It's drawing money, but not by being a wrestler. The guy who makes the video packages that Shawn Michaels praised last week is probably more responsible for PPV buys in the last 5 years than anyone but John Cena, but it doesn't make him a draw.
Wrestlemania 6 was just as much about Hogan as it was Warrior, so I'm not sure why you're giving Warrior all the credit for that PPV buyrate.
Because Hogan headlined WrestleManias VII and VIII and garnered less of an audience. I'm not giving Warrior all the credit, I'm saying he was better than most of Hogan's contemporaries.
Never said he was a bad draw, just an entirely overrated one. Remember his 1996 return to the WWF and how massively that flopped? Nobody gave a fuck about him anymore and that was only six years removed from main eventing Wrestelmania and pinning Hulk Hogan clean.
So a guy who hadn't wrestled for four years had lost relevance. SHIT THE BED. Tell me, did the ratings of TNA change in the slightest when Foley, who had been wrestling semi regularly and had just had 6 months in the WWE showed up? No, they didn't.
A) Allegedly difficult backstage? I don't think they fire people (more than once) for "allegedly" being difficult backstage.
Vince McMahon fires people for a lot of different reasons. In all likelihood he was a cock, but then, so were a lot of wrestlers. It doesn't count against the Archbishop of Cunterbury Shawn Michaels, but it does tarnish Warrior's image for some reason.
B) Really not seeing how he's a bigger draw than Foley. Because of Wrestlemania 6? That was a different era, who had the highest rated segment in the history of professional wrestling on television? Mick Foley doing one of his classic promo segments with The Rock.
Firstly, you berate me for forgetting Hogan, and then use an angle that focussed on The Rock to justify Foley being a bigger draw. Secondly, that was the highest ever rated segment of Raw. The SNME when Warrior teamed with Hulk Hogan drew 10.0. The ones that featured him as champion scored a minimum of 8.7, which is still more than the highest rated Rock with his sidekick Mick segment of all time. He's a bigger draw because more people paid to see him in arenas and on PPV and more people tuned in to watch him on TV. It's pretty fucking simple how he was the bigger draw.
C) A better Foley non-gimmick match than Warrior's match at Wrestlemania VII? Pretty easy, Mankind vs. HBK at Mind Games in 1996. I'd also rank his back-to-back matches on PPV in 1998 with Austin as Dude Love above the Wrestlemania VII match. Foley was/is certainly a better worker than Warrior. He's a far better wrestler all-around as well, be it his promo skills his selling or his technical ability, Foley is superior to Warrior in every one of those categories.
Ok, I'll grant you that Foley has had good matches. I don't think I've actually seen the Mind Games one, but I think the Dude Love ones weren't as good. Whatever, this is opinion, and I was pointing out that Warrior isn't the shit worker people make out.
Warrior kind of sucked. Massively. I can literally count on one hand the amount of good matches he had in his entire career. I wouldn't even be able to get through Foley's WCW run without having to start growing new hands to count how many classic matches the man has had.
And how many of those matches did Foley win?
