Andre the Giant Page #4

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of Andr the Giant.

You've just heard legend of him,

so he comes out of the back,

you see a full head

above the crowd.

Announcer:

All right! The crowd's

starting to surge!

Hulk Hogan:

I first saw Andr the Giant,

it was junior high school,

ninth grade, eighth grade,

and I just remember

how intense it was.

It's almost like

the whole room moved

when he walked through

the crowd.

Announcer:

Just talking

about anticipation.

There he is!

Hogan:

And then when

he climbed up on the ring,

the back of his leg

and the size of his thigh

and his quad

and his rear end

and his whole hip looked like

a Clydesdale horse.

I was hooked immediately.

This is an era where

word of mouth

carried as much weight

as anything else.

And you would hear rumor

of wrestlers

and you would

just have to wait for them

to come to your town,

if they ever got there.

Everywhere he went,

people turned out to see him.

Announcer:

And the eighth wonder

of the world...

Lawler:

There was nobody else

in the business

at that time

that you could say,

"Hey, let me put this guy

on your card,

and you're gonna have

an automatic sellout."

- ( cheering )

- ( grunting )

Commentator:

Whoa! That's the wrong guy

to do that to.

He knew how to create

emotion, energy, drama.

For somebody that big

to go down to a knee

and to get sympathy.

There was just something

magical about him.

He had a way

to reel you in.

The term that we have

in wrestling is,

it's a sell

for your opponent.

And Andr would

sell anything that I did.

You knew you weren't

gonna beat Andr,

that just wasn't

in the cards.

The understanding was Andr

would sell anything

that I did to him.

But then at the end

of the match,

Andr was going over.

Andr was gonna get

his hand raised.

Andr the Giant,

ladies and gentlemen,

for the benefit

of you who do not know,

is the only undefeated superstar

in professional wrestling.

Dave Meltzer:

They could have made him

the champion,

but it probably would have

gotten stale after a while

because there was no confidence

when people wrestled Andr

that anyone

was gonna beat him.

He could have won the title,

but then,

how could he lose

the title?

Shoemaker:

Nobody had any expectation

that Andr was gonna come in

and get beat up

by the local hero.

Although he could make

those local heroes look good

if he wanted to.

Announcer:

One more shot,

across the jaw!

Shoemaker:

If Andr came in and took on

the local champion,

if they could just get

their licks in against Andr,

if they could look good

for five minutes,

hold their own against

Andr the Giant,

that was a win!

Commentator:

Andr's in trouble here,

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