Andre The Giant Stories

[Scroby 0]

So after reading a Andre The Giant story in the WWE folder, I decided it's time to start a Andre The Giant story thread. We all read about his encounters with wrestlers and people in certain wrestlers book's. I think we should share some of them here as well. If anything it'll give us a laugh.

[Guest Frank_Nabbit]

Andre has sex at a hotel. He leaves the shades open. Some wrestlers see. Heenan later asked what did it look like? the reply: "Like an Elephant raping a rabbit"

[Guest Frank_Nabbit]

Dory jr's wife: He spoke five languages, but preferred English or French. He especially loved English movies. On the bus in Japan, movies on the VCR were the entertainment. Only when The Boss was on the bus did we get English movies. One of Andre's favorites was a video of his knee operation. It was quite a ghastly ordeal to watch, which used to just tickle him to no end when big, tough Japanese wrestlers would get sick from viewing it.

 

Andre could never sleep on the bus rides, but he could definitely drink his beloved Beaujolais wine. Ah, there were so many thoughts shared while drinking French wine on the bus in Japan. Sometimes our conversations were deep, about family life or the lack thereof. I once asked him if he had any kids, and it was the saddest look I had ever seen on his face. Andre looked out the window and answered, "Yes." When I asked if it was a boy or girl, he didn't answer. There were no tears in his eyes, but his sad face showed the tears in his heart.

 

Andre was very proud of his relationship with the wrestlers and most promoters. He took great pride in his friendly business dealings with Antonio Inoki, Giant Baba and Vince McMahon Sr. and Jr. He thought Jim Crockett Jr. was OK except for the time he pissed off Andre over a $2 parking ticket in Columbia, S.C. Can you imagine? They wanted to charge Andre two bucks to park his pickup truck backstage! Dory and Crockett were in Japan. J.C. called the office to see how the show went with Andre. Andre was charged two bucks to park backstage. Frenchy paid (he was driving). Andre walked into the arena, walked around the ring, walked to the back, collected Frenchy and said, "Let's go Boss!" and they left. J.C. flipped! To the fans it appeared that Andre was a no show and really pissed everyone in the office! Too crazy, eh? Andre laughed every time he told the story.

 

Andre's favorite wrestler and competitor was Terry "Hollywood" Hogan. He was so proud of what they had accomplished together. I saw Hogan's picture in the news at Andre's funeral, and that was so meaningful. Andre would be very happy to know Hogan was there to wish him Godspeed!

[Guest Frank_Nabbit]

Andre love to play a card game called Cribbage. It’s a card game that uses a board with 121 holes per player in it to keep score. I had learned to play in the Navy, so every time Andre came to a territory where I was wrestling he would look me up to play a few games in the dressing room.

 

On this particular night everything was going my way. Not only had I won every game, but I had just "skunked" the Giant in the last game. I could tell it was starting to get to the big man so I decided that I would see if I couldn’t lose the next game to appease him.

 

Like I said, Andre was an excellent Cribbage player so I had to be careful not to be too obvious about losing or matters could have gotten worse. But as luck would have it, I couldn’t lose. No matter what cards I discarded, I drew the cards to make my hand the best it could possible be.

 

As good as my luck was, Andre’s was just the opposite. No matter how he played, he couldn’t catch a break.

 

By the end of the last game, instead of losing I had actually "double skunked" Andre the Giant, which meant that he had scored less than 60 by the time I completed the 121 point course.

 

Suddenly, Andre slammed his fist down on the bench where we had been playing sending the board flying. He grabbed the deck of cards (since Cribbage is played with 12 cards at a time there were 40 in the pile) and with no effort at all ripped the deck in half and flung them on the ground.

 

"We play later Boss," the big man growled as he rose and stormed away.

 

In my mind, I dodged a big bullet that night.

 

Frank Dusek

[TheOriginalOrangeGoblin 0]

I like the Warrior story Heenan tells, it goes someting like:

 

When Andre and Warrior had their house show series, there was a spot where Andre would get tangled in the ropes and Warrior would clothesline him. Problem was, Warrior always stiffed him on the clothesline. Heenan tried to reason with him but Warrior ignored him and kept doing it. Eventually Andre got tired of it and casually lifted his boot up hitting Warrior in the chest and leaving him on the mat wheezing in pain. The next night Warrior's clothesline barely touched Andre. Andre looked at Heenan and said "He's learning, boss."

[Fuzzy Dunlop 0]

"Yes." When I asked if it was a boy or girl, he didn't answer. There were no tears in his eyes, but his sad face showed the tears in his heart.

 

What's this all about?

[EdwardKnoxII 0]

"Yes." When I asked if it was a boy or girl, he didn't answer. There were no tears in his eyes, but his sad face showed the tears in his heart.

 

What's this all about?

 

Andre had a daughter that he told very few people about. He didn't get to see her much cause he was always on the road.

[Spaceman Spiff 0]

I like the Warrior story Heenan tells, it goes someting like:

 

When Andre and Warrior had their house show series, there was a spot where Andre would get tangled in the ropes and Warrior would clothesline him. Problem was, Warrior always stiffed him on the clothesline. Heenan tried to reason with him but Warrior ignored him and kept doing it. Eventually Andre got tired of it and casually lifted his boot up hitting Warrior in the chest and leaving him on the mat wheezing in pain. The next night Warrior's clothesline barely touched Andre. Andre looked at Heenan and said "He's learning, boss."

I thought it was Andre sticking his fist out, w/ Warrior running face-first into it.

[TheOriginalOrangeGoblin 0]

I like the Warrior story Heenan tells, it goes someting like:

 

When Andre and Warrior had their house show series, there was a spot where Andre would get tangled in the ropes and Warrior would clothesline him. Problem was, Warrior always stiffed him on the clothesline. Heenan tried to reason with him but Warrior ignored him and kept doing it. Eventually Andre got tired of it and casually lifted his boot up hitting Warrior in the chest and leaving him on the mat wheezing in pain. The next night Warrior's clothesline barely touched Andre. Andre looked at Heenan and said "He's learning, boss."

I thought it was Andre sticking his fist out, w/ Warrior running face-first into it.

Considering the spot had Andre's arms tied in the ropes, that don't work too well with the fist.

[Guest Fook]

Spiff's right. The clothesline would hit Andre and he'd fall back into the ropes and get tied up, not the other way around.

[TheOriginalOrangeGoblin 0]

Oh my mistake. I was going off memory from what Heenan said.

[The Metal Maniac 0]

A story told by someone on the Andre the Giant A&E Biography:

 

Andre was in a bar drinking one night, and these two guys were being total dicks to him, for whatever reason. Andre put up with it for a while, until one of the guys crossed the line. Andre stood up, and the two of them took off. Andre followed them outside the bar, and found them in their car. Andre walked up to the car, turned it over onto it's roof, and left.

[Danville_Wrestling 0]

"Yes." When I asked if it was a boy or girl, he didn't answer. There were no tears in his eyes, but his sad face showed the tears in his heart.

 

What's this all about?

 

Andre had a daughter that he told very few people about. He didn't get to see her much cause he was always on the road.

 

In the A&E Biography then-WWE referee Tim White briefly talked about this. He said that Andre had a daughter and that he wanted her to come to his ranch sometime, but the mother of the girl wanted her to have little to do with Andre and wouldn't allow her to go.

[geniusMoment 0]

Andre the Giant had sex with my grandmother and aunt at the same time in a Denny's bathroom in New Brunswick. How do I know this........family movies.

[Scroby 0]

One story that comes to mind is something Bobby Heenan told in his first book. When Andre would get into a elevator with someone on it, he would let out a fart. After he farted he waited a few seconds so the smell would show up and then he turned to the person in the elevator next to him and yell at them to stop it.

[Guest BrokenWings]

Directly from Flair's book...

 

After a wrestling match, Andre the Giant was another guy who loved to party. One night in Charlotte, I saw him drink one hundred and six beers. That's a fact. (Frank Valois, his travelling companion and translator, drank fifty-four.) Another time, at a beachfront bar in Norfolk, Blackjack Mulligan and Dick Murdoch were play-fighting with Andre when one of them sucker-punched him. Andre dragged them both into the ocean, stuck their heads under the water, and started drowning them. When he let them up, they all came back to the bar laughing, but that was the business.

[CBright7831 0]

Did Flair and Andre ever wrestle? I would be surprised if they never did since Flair has pretty much wrestled every big name in wrestling.

[Guest Duke_The_Dog]

\I asked this over at Kayfabe memories... the yfought a hand ful of times in Mid Alantic in the late 70's, never for Flair's belt.

[EVIL~! alkeiper 0]

One Andre the Giant/Flair match finished third runner up in PWI's match of the year voting in 1976.

[King Kamala 0]

I saw a split screen picture in an old PWI back in 94ish, on one side was a picture of Flair Vs Andre from 1976 (They mentioned it was runner up for match of the year that year) and on the other side was Flair facing off with El Gigante from a WCW House Show in the early 90s.

 

 

I've always wondered how well Flair carried El Gigante. Another question for another thread.

[Dobbs 3K 0]

Yep, it happened. I thought they had a match in the early '80s too in like, the Missouri NWA territory, but I could be wrong.

 

 

This is from 1976 (probably the match mentioned earlier in the thread).

[JHawk 0]

I like the Warrior story Heenan tells, it goes someting like:

 

When Andre and Warrior had their house show series, there was a spot where Andre would get tangled in the ropes and Warrior would clothesline him. Problem was, Warrior always stiffed him on the clothesline. Heenan tried to reason with him but Warrior ignored him and kept doing it. Eventually Andre got tired of it and casually lifted his boot up hitting Warrior in the chest and leaving him on the mat wheezing in pain. The next night Warrior's clothesline barely touched Andre. Andre looked at Heenan and said "He's learning, boss."

I thought it was Andre sticking his fist out, w/ Warrior running face-first into it.

Considering the spot had Andre's arms tied in the ropes, that don't work too well with the fist.

 

The way I remembered it was Andre punched Warrior as Warrior ran in for the clothesline. Haven't watched the shoot in a while though.

[MikeJordan23 0]

What's the story with Kamala pulling out a gun on Andre?

[Guest Duke_The_Dog]

Andre supposedly called him the "N - word"

[MikeJordan23 0]

Andre supposedly called him the "N - word"

 

I remember Bad News Allen telling a similar story on the LAW. About Andre making racist jokes or something.

[Guest Duke_The_Dog]

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/newmugs4.html

 

Andre's mug shot

[CBright7831 0]

I find it odd that so far in this selection, all of the other mugshots, besides Andre, are rappers.

[snuffbox 0]

Johnny Cash was a gangsta...

[TheOriginalOrangeGoblin 0]

Johnny Cash was a gangsta...

As was Frankie Vally...

[Guest The Mandingo Warrior]

I remember reading somewhere that Andre once farted in Ric Flair's face. Maybe thats why they hardly ever wrestled!