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10. Warrior Wants To Sell Comic Books

The Ultimate Warrior was a strange cat.

Eric Bischoff once revealed on his '83 Weeks' show that initial discussions with the man were less about actually wrestling and more about "potential opportunities". Basically, Warrior wanted assurance that he'd be able to promote and sell his comic books. Losing to Hulk Hogan wasn't a problem.

The old WrestleMania VI rivals would go on to have one of the worst rematches in wrestling history at WCW's Halloween Havoc 1998 pay-per-view. Warrior didn't give a hoot about that - the guy just wanted to know that merch items (like that aforementioned comic) would be available at the table.

Hulk craved revenge for putting his so-called successor over eight years earlier. Meanwhile, the artist formerly known as Jim Hellwig bored Bisch to death for hours about animation, comics and character lore the WCW chief couldn't pretend to care about.

In the end, selling comic books was more important to Warrior than wrestling matches for WCW.