1. At the age of 12, Andre was already well over six feet tall and 200 pounds. Andre suffered from acromegaly, which led to his giant frame. Doctors told him he would not live to see his 40th birthday.

2. He supported himself through wrestling school by working for a moving company. Andre was rejected from the French Army for being too big.

4. In a feat that would put any drinker to shame, Andre once had 156 beers in one sitting. Andre drank like a boss. In her autobiography, The Fabulous Moolah tells another story of how Andre drank 127 beers and passed out in the hotel lobby. Since none of the hotel staffers could carry the Andre, they draped a piano cover over him and let him sleep in the lobby.

5. And according to Richard English, it took Andre almost two bottles of vodka in order to get a buzz. This information would eventually come handy when Andre went in for back surgery. WWE Chairman Vince McMahon recalls the anesthesiologist did not know how much morphine to administer Andre. So he calculated the amount based on the bottles of vodka it took to give Andre a buzz.

6. Andre once drank 16 bottles of wine in four hours before wrestling three matches including a 20-man battle royal. Referee and friend Tim White told WWE, “He didn’t do that often, but if he felt like putting on a show and having some laughs, he’d go ahead and do that.” He could easily walk into a restaurant and eat 12 steaks and 15 lobsters in one sitting.

7. He allegedly flipped a car over with four people inside. According to Arnold Skaaland, Andre was drinking at a bar by himself when four patrons started harassing him. After reaching his breaking point, Andre chased the unruly patrons out of the bar, who then locked themselves inside a car. So, Andre flipped the car over. Lesson: YOU DO NOT MESS WITH A GIANT.

8. Hulk Hogan would break Andre’s undefeated run after body-slamming him at WrestleMania 3 in front of over 93,000 people. Hogan tore his latissimus dorsi performing the maneuver. Even though Andre’s health was deteriorating, he still put on one of the most memorable matches in wrestling history.

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yes, that is Andre the Giant

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Never saw him wrestle

I saw some of his fight then, he was really massive and he has this slow movement of doing things. He is late now! Doctors diagnosed him with excessive growth and said he may never live to see his 40's. May he rest in peace. Hulk Hogan was the only man to stop his unbeaten in Wrestlemenia...