Andre didn’t like Hulk Hogan after they first met and, in actual fact, Hogan as soon as mentioned Andre beat him up for the primary eight years till he smartened and commenced to respect the enterprise, thus incomes Andre’s respect and solid a friendship till Andre’s loss of life.
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“I sat within the dressing room with Andre for like eight hours, watched him drank two-fifths of Jack Daniels, watched him do a bunch of different stuff for the ache in his again,” Hogan recollected of the day of WrestleMania 3. “I mentioned, ‘Boss, hey, what are we gonna do on the market?’ (Andre) ‘Don’t fret.’ ‘Hey, boss, what do you assume, can I attempt to slam you?’ (Andre) ‘No.’ And I am like, ‘Oh hell, I’ll get killed.'”
Hogan revealed what Andre did for him within the ring.
“Abruptly he went, ‘Slam.’ I went, ‘What?’ And he screamed at me once more, ‘Slam.’ And he simply — when he got here at me I simply intestine him, and I obtained him as much as right here and I had him right here. I went, ‘Oh my god,’ I do not assume, after which I simply mentioned ‘to hell with it,’ and after I turned him my again tore, my biceps tore in each locations, and I slammed him, and dropped the leg considering he was gonna kick out however he did not. And I went, ‘Oh my god, that huge son of a b****,’ he simply put a rocket launcher on me.”
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Hogan was already a family identify going into WrestleMania 3 in Pontiac, Michigan, however physique slamming and scoring the win over Andre solidified him as a worldwide phenomenon.
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