There are many ways to explain who it is André the giant. One is One of the greatest partiers in the history of professional wrestling. The stories are countless, for example, once Ric Flair He saw him drinking 100 beers in one night. The “Nature Boy” is another that would fit well in that description.
► The surgery of a giant
It was the 1980s when Vince McMahon convinced “the eighth wonder of the world” to return to the WWE and fight against Hulk Hogan in WrestleMania III. However, the huge fighter had serious health problems, especially in the back, and He underwent surgery to participate in the great event.
It is said that the anesthesiologist who attended to El Gigante had no previous reference for a body of such size (André measured more than 2.20 meters and weighed more than 230 kilos), and To know how much anesthetic he had to use to sleep before the operation he asked how much alcohol he used to consume.
“Normally it takes me two liters of vodka to feel hot inside.”
► impossible to confirm
Now, Was this real or is it a myth?
There is no official medical documentation that supports it.
On the other hand, History has been repeated by nearby people To André the giant over the years, like other stories related to the drink: he would have drunk a wine box on a four -hour bus trip, paid a bar of 40,000 dollars while filming the promised princess, consumed an average of 7,000 calories per day of alcohol …
It is always more interesting when it is true that when not but given that it is impossible to corroborate it we stayed with a mythical story of the legendary figure of André the giant.
