Other Names Giant Rousimoff, Jean Ferre, Giant Machine and Andre the Giant
Date of Birth May 19, 1946 in France
Weight:
380-520 lbs (it varied through his career)
Height: 7 ft 4 (although he got smaller as his career went on)
Signature Move Choke, Headbutt
Federations indies, NWA and WWF
Titles Held Various at indie, WWF World Heavyweight title and WWF Tag Title
Short Bio
Andre the Giant was a one of the biggest (no pun intended) stars professional wrestling has ever seen. His physical size was something that was never seen before or has been seen again. He died in France on January 29th, 1993. Andre’s massive size was caused by the illness acromegaly, which means his growth hormones were out of control.
Andre arrived in North America the early 1970s under the name Jean Ferre. After some success in Canada, Andre met Vince McMahon and signed with the WWF and became the most popular wrestler in the world. After several years as the most popular wrestler in the WWF Andre had a match against Hulk Hogan at Wrestlemania III in front of the largest crowd in wrestling history. He jobbed to Hogan and thus passed the torch over to Hogan as wrestling’s number 1. The match ended when Hogan body slammed Andre and hit his legdrop.
After his match at Wrestlemania III Andre's health slowly began to get worse and worse and he was forced to only wrestle tag matches because he was not up to successfully completing a one on one match. His last run of WWF glory was with current WWF star Haku in the team The Colossal Connection, they went on to win the Tag Team Champions and held them for 4 months before loosing the belts to Demolition.
Andre was inducted into the WWF hall of fame after his death in January 1993 and is a true legend in the sport.
