The 7 - foot-4 wrestlingHall of FamerAndre the Giant is the owner of a legend that extends well outside the annulus . He was hilarious inThe Princess Bride . He gotrides to school from Samuel Beckett . But no small part of his legend was his power to ingest superhuman quantities of alcohol .
The armory of stories has grown with a twosome taradiddle told by retired grappler Gerald Brisco in an interview with theTampa Bay Times . " Andre used to ask me to get him six bottles ofMateus wineand ice them down , " Brisco told theTimes . " He would drink those before we went to the ring and no one could tell . "
All of the stories about Andre the Giant ’s drinking are judgement - boggling and they would be impossible to conceive if it was n’t for the fact that Andre the Giant was n’t just monstrously tall , he weighed in at 520 lbf. and managed to somehow not take care like a lump of loaded child’s play - doh dripping over the edge of a table . Though his measurement should be taken with a grain of salt , since pro wrestling , like a good carnival barker , is prone toslightembellishments .
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Brisco continued , " One Nox in Sarasota , Andre is traveling with us . So we pull over and get two cases of marvellous boy . By the time we get from Sarasota to the Tahitian Inn on Dale Mabry , the two cases were off-white dry .
" He was one of the dainty guy but I have seen idiots in bars all over the country dispute him , and with one petty shove they ’d be 10 feet off . "
Those stories are harebrained for a normal person , but they are n’t eventhe crazy drinking storiesconcerning one of professional grappling ’s biggest whiz . He admitted once onLettermanto having eat up 119 beers in a individual sitting . Fellow grappler Mike Graham told a story onLegends of Wrestlingthat Mr. Giant once put home 156 16 oz . bum in a dark . His legal community tab at the hotel he stayed in for a month while shootingThe Princess Bridewas said to be $ 40,000 .
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So , six nursing bottle of wine before study does n’t seem that unhinged in comparison . It is crazy . It ’s really damn dotty , but it ’s a three - eyed toad sitting next to a batrachian with 14 leg .
