Giant Haystacks doesn’t just share one of his names with Andre The Giant – they were both absolutely huge! And that is in more ways than one. Both men were two of the most famous wrestlers of all time. Haystacks for his work opposite Big Daddy in the UK, while the French Andre was perhaps … Read more
Andre The Giant toured the United Kingdom in the 1960s before he broke out as a worldwide star with the WWE. Under the name Jean Ferré, he toured the UK and honed his craft against some of the best wrestlers of the day. He began wrestling in 1964 in Paris as an 18-year-old and was … Read more
Kendo Nagasaki has backed up his claim that he was the first ever wrestler to beat the legendary Andre The Giant in a match, during the Frenchman’s tour of Britain in 1969.