Andre The Giant Used To Drink Six Bottles Of Wine Before Matches

In an interview with the Tampa Bay Times, retired wrestler Gerald Brisco claimed that wrestling legend Andre the Giant used to drink multiple bottles of wine before a match...

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“Andre used to ask me to get him six bottles of Mateus wine and ice them down,” Brisco said, according to Timothy Burke of Deadspin. “He would drink those before we went to the ring and no one could tell.”

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He also liked his beer...

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“One night in Sarasota, Andre is traveling with us. So we pull over and get two cases of tall boys,” he recalled. “By the time we get from Sarasota to the Tahitian Inn on Dale Mabry, the two cases were bone dry.”

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Here's another drinking story from Ken Patera....



(Yardbarker)