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At 7'4 tall, 2.44 meters tall and weighing 244 kilograms at his peak, he was the box office guarantee of the American wrestling world at the time, and the WWE Hall of Fame was established to honor him.

He is the giant Andre, who has never been defeated for 15 consecutive years due to his large size, and such terrifying strength has earned him the nicknames "Beast Rossimov" and "The Eighth Wonder of the World".

He is one of the strongest men in wrestling, and alcohol is his best choice for refueling during the fight, once drinking 119 bottles of beer in one day to win the title of "King of the Ring".

He was the most famous superstar in wrestling history, and after his death from a heart attack in 1993, the weight of his ashes was shocking, which also sealed his life to be different.

"Born Giant" Andrey

In 1946, Andre was born in Grenoble, France, and his parents were both about 2 meters tall, which also destined Andre to become a "giant" in the future.

Since he was born, Andre has suffered from "congenital hypertrophy" and "acromegaly", and has also been detected with congenital hormones, which will increase with age.

As a result of these symptoms, Andre's height and limbs are directly affected, because of the excessive secretion of growth hormone, his bones are far beyond normal in terms of growth rate and growth stage.

At the age of 16, Andre's height had broken through two meters and his weight was as high as 200 pounds.

During that year, Andre's parents had a farm under their names, and relying on this farm was enough to keep Andre safe for the rest of his life, but such a boring life was not what he wanted.

A year later, at the age of 17, Andre was discovered by a famous French wrestling champion and began to learn wrestling.

After coming into contact with wrestling, he also slowly felt the charm of wrestling, met many wrestlers, and everyone's first impression of him was always his huge body.

By chance, due to the injury of a wrestler, he had to be replaced, and Andre, who was huge and stressful, was naturally pushed into the ring, and people wanted to see what he was capable of.

Although he has not been training wrestling for a long time, his huge size is his absolute advantage, and this fight also made Andre sound the clarion call to enter the world of wrestling.

Wherever he went, he would always be a pillar in the wrestling ring, even in Morocco and Japan, and was almost ruled by Andre.

A superstar that can't be shaken

In the wrestling world, Andre had already made a name for himself at that time, but the competition had always been in France, or Japan and Morocco, and the stage was larger in the United States, and he had not yet made a name for himself.

In 1971, Andre set foot on North American soil, and he will usher in the first wrestling match of his life in North America, and the match is still not in suspense, and Andre defeated his opponent in a crushing situation.

After this battle, he completely became the invincible giant in people's hearts, and as long as André's name was on the list of games, the game would definitely be full.

But the period that really brought him to the top was after meeting Vinson Kennedy McMahon.

As Andre's fame grew, and many well-known wrestlers fell to him, Vinson sent an invitation to Andre on behalf of the WWF.

At that time, Andre was further tempering himself in Canada, and was unexpectedly discovered by Vincent, and after joining Vincent's team, his influence reached an unprecedented level.

At that time, there was no developed network media today, and almost all information was disseminated by magazines, even so, in the wrestling world at that time, no one did not know Andre, even ordinary people who had never been in contact with wrestling at all, could always hear or see about his deeds.

For fellow professional wrestlers, Andre is an insurmountable mountain, and for nearly 15 years after joining Vincent, Andre didn't know what it was like to fail.

As for the other wrestlers, Andre had already seen the end at a glance when he learned of his opponent, and the only thing he could pray for was to hope that he could hold out in Andre's hands for a few more minutes.

In those days, Andre had always been one of the most popular superstars in WWE, and his massive size was his unique label, but no matter how strong he was, he couldn't always stand at the top.

Because of his physical reasons, Andre gradually couldn't bear the burden of his huge body, and finally broke up with his friend, and was ended by his friend in the ring for 15 years without defeat.

Andrey's defeat was predestined, and he drank hundreds of beers a day, not because he was a heavy drinker, but because of his body.

The price of a champion

On the surface, Andre was invincible in the ring, but few people knew at the time that his body had already sent him a danger signal.

Wrestlers drink alcohol before and after matches to replenish their energy, but Andre drinks several times as much as the other fighters, and at the most, he drinks 119 bottles of beer a day.

If you don't know much about Andre, people will generally think that he is an "alcoholic", but in fact, he drinks so horribly that he can continue to stand in the ring.

His huge body, thanks to the diseases he suffered, and the huge body brought to him by these diseases gave him an absolute advantage in the ring.

But in the same way, when his body gets bigger and bigger, his body can no longer bear such a large body, and he drinks alcohol only because alcohol can relieve pain.

The most dangerous thing is that the disease makes his bones develop and grow wildly, but his heart and other organs are still no different from normal people.

And this is also the main reason why Andre finally died of heart disease, and after his death, his ashes weighed several times that of an adult.

The weight of a normal adult male's ashes is about 4 to 8 pounds, but the weight of Andrey's ashes has reached 15 pounds, which can also more intuitively feel how terrifying his bone growth is.

After his death, André became the first member of the WWE Hall of Fame, a title that far outweighs all the honors he has ever won as one of the greatest wrestling players in wrestling history.

In the wrestling ring, Andre is a "legend" who is difficult to defeat, but he is always an ordinary person, and for his family, Andre is just a relatively large relative.

Source: WWE China official account

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