6) 12 Bottles Of Wine
Hulk Hogan told another great story in the interview we mentioned earlier with CBS Boston. He told the tale of Andre’s birthday, where he bought him a case of expensive (and potent) french wine. Safe to say that the case didn’t last too long.
Here is the story from Hogan:
“Another quick story from when I was in Japan. I went down to the bus and the bus driver told me it was Andre’s birthday. I was like ‘Oh my god’ — it was like 7:30 in the morning and I forgot. Thank god I got down to the bus before him. So I went down to this little karaoke bar right down the street from the hotel and I bought a case of Pouilly-Fuissé wine — 12 bottles of this very powerful, powerful, strong white French wine”
Andre not only crushed those 12 bottles of wine, but he did so within 3 hours:
“Andre came down to the bus and I was like, ‘Hey boss happy birthday!’ I always sat in the seat ahead of Andre because it was always so hard for him to get up and sit down. All of a sudden we left the hotel about 8 in the morning for an eight hour bus ride. About three hours later he shakes the seat. He says, ‘Boss. Bossss. I need pit stop.’ Three hours on a bus he drank 12 bottles of wine.”
An incredible drinking feat.
5) Getting Farted On By A Drunk Andre
Jake ‘The Snake’ Roberts has wrestled Andre on a number of occasions. This includes a match together at Wrestlemania V where Roberts picked up the win via disqualification. The two also got into some heavy drinking backstage.
Roberts told a funny Andre the Giant drinking story on the IN THE ROOM podcast. The two got liquored up before their match one night and Andre was being a little bit more playful than usual. Here is the story from Roberts:
“Back in the day I was wrestling Andre which was quite the experience on its own. One night we had few too many cocktails, and it was his birthday so I understood. I knew I was in trouble when the referee came over and said Andre was being a bit playful. He’s trying to scare people. He’s trying to scare people by hiding and going out and saying boo. Are you kidding? How do you hide a giant? I get to the ring and Andre is doing this coming down the aisle and I’m holy crap wondering what I’ve gotten myself into”
Roberts continued, telling the story of Andre farting on him:
“He got in the ring and jumps up and tries to grab the rope, he misses and lands on me adjusting my back and everything. Then my shoulder starts to vibrate and he starts laughing. Earl Hebner is like Andre why are you laughing, you’re not supposed to that in the ring. Andre screams, ‘I’m farting!’”
I can only imagine how funny this would have been to watch live.
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