1990-91 WWE MVP

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I would love to see merchandise sales from the period.
Wonder how many more Hogan buddy soft toys outsold the Warrior buddy soft toys?

Honestly if you want to split hairs about this house shows outdrawing that house show.... I could google on the internet and find thousands of articles on Warrior not being fit to fill Hogans shoes or that he was a disaster as champ.

If Warrior was such a smash hit, why was Vince so desperate to take the belt off Warrior and back on Hogan by late 1990? The Warrior experiment did not live up to expectations

 

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I would love to see merchandise sales from the period.
Wonder how many more Hogan buddy soft toys outsold the Warrior buddy soft toys?

Honestly if you want to split hairs about this house shows outdrawing that house show.... I could google on the internet and find thousands of articles on Warrior not being fit to fill Hogans shoes or that he was a disaster as champ.

If Warrior was such a smash hit, why was Vince so desperate to take the belt off Warrior and back on Hogan by late 1990? The Warrior experiment did not live up to expectations

Who said he was a smash hit as champion? I specifically said he didn't get a chance to have a good title reign, they had no one for him to feud with after Summerslam so they put him in the LOD/Demolition feud for 2 months, when Hogan had the belt he always had someone to feud with. The so called "feud" with Rude had no heat at all, the only build up they had leading up to the cage match was SNME match which Warrior won convincingly (that was the SNME that Hogan returned so that was the draw of the show, not the Warrior-Rude matchup) and cutting a bunch of promos on each other. The feud with Savage was strong but at that point they already had planned to put the belt on Slaughter and it wasn't until after Warrior dropped the belt that feud really heated up.

Unlike Warrior's feuds as champion, the Hogan-Slaughter storyline had heavy buildup and it still didn't do well. Warrior exactly drew better with Slaughter than Hogan did, Wrestlemania VII wasn't the most bought PPV of 1991, did you know that? Survivor Series '91 was the only PPV that year that didn't outdraw WMVII, and guess what, Hogan also headlined that show. Look up the buyrates on the prowrestlinghistory.com/supercards/eventinfo.xls site and see which PPV was the most successful one in '91.

I've read that Warrior rivaled Hogan in merchandise sales and was the only one that did in the Hogan era, his merchandise sales paychecks in 1989-1991 were huge.

Again like I said, it took Warrior getting suspended and Flair coming in for Hogan to get his spot back as top draw.