10 Wrestling Secrets Everyone Knows Except You
5. Andre The Giant: Myths About A Legend
Passing away a full decade before home access to the internet would have rendered many of the stories as redundant as "facts" from the w*nker in the pub that are now debunked in seconds, Andre The Giant's enormous size can't compete with the scale of bullsh*t spoken about his amazing life.
It's such a wrestling thing - the man was legitimately enormous, but was promoted as even bigger than than he actually was. Gift wrapped a charismatic and once-in-a-lifetime performer, the carny instincts of those in a perennially carny industry couldn't resist stretching the truth past the point of human possibility. And adding a few inches to his height doesn't even go all the way to the taps, brother.
The amount of beers he could drink in one sitting stretched into triple figures, and impossible periods of time, as if the human liver grows at an identical rate with the size of a person's body. Hulk Hogan - of course - claimed he saw 108 go down the hatch in 45 minutes, spewing enough bullsh*t to fill the taps he claimed Andre needed to sh*t in because toilets were too small.
Newer documentaries have tried - gasp - to actually document a unique life rather than glorify to such goofy and improbable extremes.