10 Things We Learned From WWE Photo Shoot: Shane McMahon

10. He Dreamed Of Tagging With Andre

As Photo Shoot served up an old photo of a young Shane McMahon with the legendary Andre the Giant, Shane explained how his childhood dream was to grow up to become Andre’s tag team partner.

In a cute line, McMahon stated that that dream was the only reason he’d ever eat vegetables. If he refused to eat his veg, Linda would use the bargaining chip of how he’d never been as big as Andre if he didn’t eat his greens.

This is yet another example of just how special Andre was to the McMahon family as people. Forget Vince McMahon “the boss” or Vince “the on-air personality”. From what we’ve seen over the years, all four of the McMahon family still to this day have so much love and affection for The Eighth Wonder of the World.

Andre Roussimoff would pass away in 1993 when Shane McMahon was 23 years of age.

Authored by Andrew Pollard

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Posted On: 25th Jul 2019

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