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To be fair, though, there's a difference between being over and drawing.
Honestly, aside from Andre The Giant, Ric Flair, Hulk Hogan, and Steve Austin, I don't think there has been another true draw in the industry in the last 30 years. No one that people would go out of their way to pay money to go and see. That's how I've always defined a draw.
People would plop down their money just to watch a 550-pound Frenchman who was supposedly invincible. They'd do the same just to watch Flair get that smug look knocked off his face. People paid good money for Hulkamania simply because it was so huge. People paid to see Steve Austin because you never knew what would happen.
As far as I know, the fans of early-to-mid-'90s WWF wouldn't have bought tickets just to see a Bret Hart match. Yes, they'd pop huge for him when his music hit, and yes they'd chant his name and buy his merchandise, but Bret Hart himself didn't draw the fans into the arena.
Flair did. Hogan did. Andre did. Austin did.
Bret didn't.
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