When he started coming around the Northeast there, in Baltimore, for example, we used to go to Little Italy. I was in Montreal, Canada, maybe four years later, five years later, something like that, and when I saw him, I didn’t know it was the same guy because, by this time, he weighed well over 400 pounds. He looked like a basketball player he was so tall. I was 270, while Andre was only about 270-275lbs. I was touring Australia, and from Australia, I went to New Zealand for a couple of matches, and he was there.ĭo you want to hear something funny? You know how tall he was – we actually weighed the same. "I met Andre the first time when he was maybe 19, 20. Nobody realizes this…" Purchase this Andre The Giant Princess Bride inspired shirt on today! 2. He had to have the ‘eye-opener’ – and he said, ‘You know, people think that I have a great life…that I can travel all over and everything…but I see them when they point at me…little kids laugh and say, what kind of a man is he?’ We sat down, and he ordered himself a Bloody Mary – it was an 8 am flight, by the way. He said, ‘Boss, you’re sitting up here with me.’ He sat up in First Class I sat in the back of the plane. I was sitting on a plane coming from Denver, going to Minneapolis. ‘Mean’ Gene Okerlund with Andre The Giant When you’re spending a week or ten days at a crack on the road with these guys in your off-time, what are you doing? You’re drinking. We had a couple of things in common: we liked good food, we liked good wine, we liked to play cribbage, and we liked to play Gin Rummy. Mean Gene Okerlund on Sensitive Andre the Giant The incomparable Andre the Giant over the years. Here are sixteen of his most memorable stories from the people who knew him best. From stories of brute strength, drinking prowess, and clearing out elevators with his farts in Japan, "The Eighth Wonder of the World" captivated people wherever he went. It’s hard to imagine a wrestler more memorable or larger than life than Andre the Giant.
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