10 Wrestlers Who Got Much Worse (But WAY More Over)
7. André The Giant
André The Giant was ludicrously dynamic for a man of his impossible proportions. He couldn’t go that hard forever - true for all, especially true for him - but he went hard. There are few more mind-blowing experiences, as a pro wrestling fan, than when you first encounter a clip of the “real” André. It’s no wonder he was such a literal monster of a drawing attraction.
Despite all of that, André was never bigger - figuratively and literally - than he was at WrestleMania III.
This fact underscores that wrestling is, above all else, about effective promotion. André by 1987 could barely move - so the WWF made that the selling point. André wasn’t a slow, lumbering, past-it giant. He was the Immovable Object.
Promoted pre-mainstream internet, at a time when the Wrestling Observer Newsletter was nowhere near as widely circulated and aggregated as it is now - and when the magazine industry helped wrestling maintain the facade of kayfabe - the idea that André had never been slammed was an easy lie to buy.
WrestleMania III was, at the time, the biggest money match in pro wrestling history.