Andre The Giant

[Insidious Von]

HBO has a biography on Andre "The Giant" Rousimoff, he truly was a larger than life figure. In more ways than physical. He made Wrestlemania the showcase PPV event. Two years before he brought the company over in Wrestlemania 3 a cure for acromegaly was developed. He rejected it, he chose to live fast and die young.

Jake "The Snake" Roberts appears committed to his sobriety, no one can tell Andre stories like he can.

 

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Andre was not bad at acting.

 

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Just uploaded, has to be included.

 

[malata]

did Andre get to sandwich any of these hotties

 

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[Spunky1]

Snake talked about Andre being so huge he physically could not shit in a regular people's tolilet. He had to dump in the bathtub and turn the water on to break the turd up to run down the drain! He's a fucking legend.

 

[Insidious Von]

So true Spunky1. As Jake put it, "no toilet could handle that ass".

Professional wrestling is staged, not fake. Shaq played it smart, he got his celebrity pop and never returned. It's an unwritten law of the business, if a celebrity returns a second time they get beaten senseless. As happened to Mr. T, Dennis Rodman and David Arquette.

 

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Never could stand Hogan, still can't.

 

[mvdouche]

Andrew was The Man.

 

[tml]

I wonder what he was packing in those trunks?

 

[Scarey]

I wonder what he was packing in those trunks?

There's a quote from one of the wrestlers on one of those shoot interviews that went something like "I look in the room and it looked like a mountain lion fucking a jack rabbit". I also remember another interview where one of the wrestlers said he was offered lots of money by "rats" to get a shot of Andre's dick, but he knew Andre would literally kill him if it ever got out.

 

[Insidious Von]

Unlike Hulk Hogan who' selfish as fuck, Andre had no problem putting other wrestlers over. His only stipulation was that you give 110%. Angelo Mosca made more money as a wrestler than his entire CFL career, most of that time he toured with Andre.

Figures Hogan would shoehorn a film about himself from WWE Studios. Chris Hemsworth is supposedly playing him, I have no interest in watching it.

Amazing rare clip.

 

[Insidious Von]

A procedure to stop the effects of acromegaly was developed at the time of the first Wrestlemania, Andre refused it. Later both Paul Wight (The Big Show) and Dalip Singh (The Great Khali) would have the corrective surgery.