Andre the Giant Page #3

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God help you.

Do you promise me that?!

- I promise you.

- Yeah?!

- We'll do our best.

- You better do it!

You've never seen me mad,

you have seen me mad now.

If he decided that he was

not gonna get picked up

or you were

not gonna throw a punch

or you weren't gonna put

a wrestling move on it,

it didn't happen.

He was stronger than all of us,

he was bigger than all of us.

He kept everybody in line.

This is not a business

of tough guys.

If you're in this business,

it's to entertain.

And for those guys that thought

they were tough guys

in this business,

Andr would straighten 'em out

real quick.

Commentator:

Like a rag doll,

he's shaking him!

Commentator #2:

Like a child!

( cheering )

- ( grunting )

- ( groaning )

Announcer:

Oh, look at this!

500 pounds plus!

( shouting )

He hated Randy Savage,

the Macho Man,

hated him with a passion.

Nassau Coliseum

is gonna witness, yeah!

Hogan:

So whenever I'd see Randy

was wrestling Andr,

I used to laugh.

Commentator:

Andr doing whatever

he wants right now.

Sitting on him!

Sitting right on his head!

Randy was always worried

on how Andr was gonna beat him.

And Randy would wait till

the very last minute.

You know,

he'd be all taped up,

and he'd have baby oil

all over him

and Randy would come in,

"Uh, excuse me, Andr,

hey, brother,

you know, uh, what do you think

we're gonna do out there

in the ring tonight?"

And Andr would look up

at him, playing cards, and go,

( imitates Andr )

"No baby oil. Get out!

Get out! No baby oil!"

Then I'd watch the match,

Andr would just get in

and would just beat

the hell out of him,

just pull his hair out.

"This is for you,

Elizabeth!"

Whap! And he'd hit him,

I'm like, "Oh, my God,

he just beat Randy

to death."

I saw him grab the Iron Sheik

one night.

He irritated the hell out

of Andr, I mean, just always.

I'm gonna show

who is the real giant...

Hogan:

"Andr, I thought maybe tonight,

Sheikie could try to slam you."

"Get out!" You know?

And Andr had had enough

of his mouth.

And one night, he just

took him out into the ring

and just beat him,

I thought he killed him.

( groaning )

Commentator:

Andr trying to twist

that leg right off.

Sheik now getting

a wrestling lesson.

Wow! Holy mackerel,

what a slam!

( cheering )

There's 500 pounds.

I'm watching, like,

"Oh, my God, somebody

stop this massacre,

he's gonna kill the guy."

Commentator:

Little lower lumbar

adjustment there.

Okerlund:

The loudmouths,

Andr didn't care for.

"Down, boss."

He didn't have

to say it twice.

There was this guy named

Big John Studd.

Now Big John Studd was

6'10", probably 350 pounds.

And Andr, he liked being

the giant among giants,

so it didn't work out

very well for John Studd.

McMahon:

John Studd, among other things,

when he came to the ring,

he would step

over the top rope.

That's what Andr did.

So no one should step

over the top rope,

because that's Andr's thing.

If you didn't respect that,

Andr had no respect

for you.

Hogan:

Andr would beat

the crap out of John Studd,

to prove who

the real giant was.

Commentator:

He's not having

a good time, is he?

Andr's having a good time.

- ( cheering )

- Referee:
One, two!

He came out of the ring,

flying past me,

gets all of his gear

and is coming out, and I said,

"Where are you going,

what are you doing?"

and he said,

"He's gonna kill me."

- ( cheering )

- ( yelling )

Andr did sports entertainment

before there was

sports entertainment.

He had it figured out

long before myself

or Vince McMahon

figured it out.

Announcer:

Andr the Giant!

Hogan:

In Andr's prime,

everybody knew him.

On every continent,

every foreign country,

he traveled everywhere.

( Commentator

speaking Japanese )

Hogan:

He transcended wrestling.

Lawler:

Without a doubt, Andr was

the most famous wrestler

in the world.

Maybe the most famous wrestler

that there had ever been.

Announcer:

There's only one athlete

like this in the world today!

The one

and the only Andr.

Shoemaker:

Andr wasn't a movie star,

but he was famous

on a different level.

Literally the biggest celebrity

in the world.

He tried out for the Redskins,

which was a publicity stunt,

but still, it shows you how

famous Andr was at the time.

He was

in "The Six Million Dollar Man"

playing a Sasquatch.

Before there was CGI,

there was only Andr the Giant.

( loud growling )

( growling continues )

Andr:

One LaBatt light, bud.

It's not just a light,

it's a Labatt light.

- Oh, boy! How are ya?

- This is a nice chair.

- How are ya?

- Fine.

Can I get you a mimosa?

( chuckling )

No, thank you.

Arnold Schwarzenegger:

I met Andr

several times because

I always have been

a big fan

of professional wrestling,

and that developed

into a great friendship.

There was this one time where

I took him out for dinner.

And, of course, I grabbed

the bill immediately.

He looks over at me

like this and says, "I pay."

I said, "No, no, Andr,

I invited, I pay.

You're the boss in your ring,

I'm the boss right now here."

And he says, "You're right"

and he gets up

and he grabs me out

of the chair, like this,

and he holds me up,

and then he puts me up

on a piece of furniture,

on an armoire.

He just set me up there

like a little doll.

This just shows you

how strong he was.

But at the same time,

what a generous person he was.

Okerlund:

Andr commanded great respect.

By promoters,

producers, or handlers,

Andr was to be treated

as something special.

Fans, take a look at this.

Can you believe that?

Perhaps even let's compare it

to the size of my head.

Andr the...

( laughing )

He was billed as 7'4".

I think he was over seven--

whether or not it was

four more inches, I don't know.

When he walked into a room,

he knew what the reactions

were going to be.

And it was not like

he was trying to hide.

Andr didn't try to hide.

Andr was going to be Andr.

Most males were

immediately intimidated.

With women,

it was different.

From what females

would tell me,

you could feel more of,

you know,

"Wow, this is-- Mother Nature

has done something really

magnificent here.

And I would like

to say hello to this person

and maybe even get

to know them."

Hogan:

They were attracted

to him like he was a magnet.

I don't know about

his girlfriends.

I don't know about

his personal relationships

with women, but I know

the girls loved him.

Jason Hehir:

Curiosity factor,

probably?

I guess, I guess.

May have been more

than that.

Maybe it was his cologne,

who knows.

He wears a size 24 ring, baby.

What else can I tell you?

( chuckling )

And he's wearing size 24 shoes.

What else do you want to know?

Everyone catered to Andr,

justifiably so.

You know, a case a beer,

it was always booze,

there was always whatever

it was Andr wanted.

He enjoyed performing,

but he enjoyed

the party afterwards.

The stories

about Andr's drinking

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