Andre The Giant

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 3-Attacking Bobby Heenan turning face at Summerslam 1990

## Heenan Family and slam heard around the world(1985-1987)

Andre The Giant's first canon match was at Superstars 2 where he defeated Ricky Steamboat. Andre was part of the Heenan Family and regularly teamed up with Kamala, at Summerslam 1985 he was part of a battle royal but was eliminated by Jim Duggan, Jim Neidhart and Dynamite Kid. In the main event of Summerslam, he, along with newest Heenan Family member Hulk Hogan and Kamala and Orndorff attacked WWF Champion Junkyard Dog and Roddy Piper.

Heenan Family defeated Roddy Piper, Big John Studd, Harley Race and Ricky Steamboat in a survivor series elimination match, due to the Survivor Series Lottery Andre got an intercontinental title shot and at SNME December he defeated Don Muraco to become IC champion, multiple men started stepping forward because they wanted IC title shots and Andre decided he would take on all of them, Jack Tunney revealed it would be a ladder match. At Wrestlemania 2, Ricky Steamboat defeated Andre, Don Muraco, Haku, Jim Duggan, Tito Santana and Brutus Beefcake to win the IC title.

Andre's next feud was against Harley Race as Andre decided Harley wasn't worth his time while they were having a singles match, at SNME May Harley picked up the upset defeating Andre to become the NO1 contender to the IC title, after this Andre wanted 1 more match but this time it was Harley saying Andre wasn't worth his time but he decided to do it with an added stipulation, the loser cannot get title shots until after Survivor Series. At SNME June, Andre defeated Harley. Andre would get his IC title rematch against Steamboat at King of the Ring but lost.

At Summerslam 1986, Hogan turned his back on Heenan Family attacking them all but but he was outnumbered and badly injured by Andre The Giant, the rest of Heenan Family started invading G1 matches to make sure Andre wins but Tunney warned that if they ambushed anyone else, Andre would be disqualified from the G1, they stopped and Andre failed to win the G1. He defeated King Kong Bundy at G1 finals in one of the worst matches in the show's history.

Leading up to SNME December, Andre defeated WWF champion Ricky Steamboat in singles competition and was added to the WWF title match. At SNME December, he was in an elimination match against Steamboat, Jake Roberts and Randy Savage, Roberts and Savage were eliminated but Steamboat vs Andre ended in a double countout with both men diving to the announcer's table. At Royal Rumble 1987, Andre defeated Steamboat to win the WWF title, in the same show Hulk Hogan returned and won the Royal Rumble.

Hogan and Andre had one of the greatest feuds of all time as WWF had gone national with more eyes than ever on the product.  at Wrestlemania 3 Hogan slammed the giant in the most iconic wrestling moment of all time and won the WWF championship in the peak of the golden age.

## Various feuds(1987-1989)

Andre returned at SNME May after Hogan lost the title to Ricky Steamboat, Andre aligned himself with Ted Dibiase and were about to attack the 2 faces but Steamboat and Hogan won. At SNME June, Andre and Dibiase defeated Steamboat and Hogan. Andre got a WWF title shot at King of the Ring against Sting but shockingly lost to the rookie.

Andre was involved in the 6 men battle royal for the 24/7 Championship at G1 Finals and was in the last 2 men along with champion Jack Tunney when Jacques Rougeau helped the president and eliminated Andre himself. Tunney explained to Jacques that even if he appreciated his help, he can't have favorites as he's the president, Andre ordered a match against Jacques and Tunney gave it to him. At SNME December Andre squashed Jacques.

Andre was the runner-up on the 1988 Royal Rumble but was eliminated by Bret Hart, he was eliminated in the first round match of a 16 men tournament for the WWF title by Harley Race.

Andre got into a feud with Bad News Brown after BNB knocked him out with a punch, he defeated him at SNME May but BNB proceeded to knock him out again. Andre tried to win the 24/7 Championship and threatened Tunney to tell him where 24/7 Champion Jacques was, Jacques gave Andre a chairshot and Andre was suspended.

When Andre returned from his suspension, he demanded for Dibiase to give him the money he was promised a year ago by teaming up with him but Dibiase just ran, Andre defeated Virgil at SNME September and then Ted Dibiase at G1 Finals. Andre was yet again the runner-up at Royal Rumble 1989 before getting eliminated by Ultimate Warrior. At Wrestlemania 5, Andre turned face being the surprise partner to Hulk Hogan and Koko B.Ware defeating Big Boss Man, One Man Gang and Harley Race, he turned back heel later on the show as him and Haku attacked Hogan backstage.

## Colossal Connection(1989-1990)

Andre had another segment at Wrestlemania 5 as him and Haku came out after Brainbusters retained the tag titles and said that nobody could touch them, Brainbusters gave some truth bombs to this new team saying that they might be bigger than them but they still don't have the teamwork they need to defeat Brainbusters. At SNME May, Brainbusters proved their point as they defeated Colossal Connection in 2 minutes.

At SNME June, they started to work on their teamwork as they faced Hogan in a handicap match and beat him down for a while. At Summerslam they both got a WWF title shot in a triple threat match against Hogan but Hogan won after some misscommunication by Colossal Connection, they beat down Hogan after the match and Jimmy Snuka returned saving Hogan. At SNME September, they defeated Hogan and Snuka showing more teamwork.

They ended up winning the Survivor Series Tag Tournament and at Wrestlemania 6, they showed their improvement in teamwork as they defeated one of the longest running tag teams, Hart Foundation to win the world tag team titles.

Colossal Connection started beating up multiple teams as Haku went more to singles action winning the MITB briefcase and Haku seemed unbeatable. At Summerslam, Andre didn't tag in Haku once and they lost the tag titles to The Rockers in a match that also involved Ringmasters and Demolition, Bobby Heenan proceeded to slap Andre and Andre attacked him turning face for the first time, Haku proceeded to beat up and injure Andre.

## Last feud(1991)

Andre returned at SNME December 1990 after Haku defended the WWF title against Ted Dibiase and Andre bieled Haku out of the ring, Andre entered at number 14 in 1991's Royal Rumble and finally won last eliminating Haku himself. Andre was in a poor state not being able to wrestle anymore and barely showing up to Superstars as Haku did the feud on his own. At Wrestlemania 7, Haku and Andre had the worst match ever on any Wrestlemania which ended in a countout as Haku forearmed Andre outside of the ring and then entered the ring. After the match, Andre took Haku out of the ring and raised the WWF title up high in Andre's last wrestling appearence.

## Legacy(1992-)

Andre died in March 27th 1992, 3 days later the RAW episode was a special "in memorial of Andre" as there were 0 matches and just people talking about Andre with footage from Andre's most iconic matches, in the same show Vince Mcmahon kicked it off announcing Andre was the first ever man to be inducted into the WWF Hall of Fame. Hulk Hogan closed the show announcing the now annual Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal which takes place at every Wrestlemania, its first ever winner was Tito Santana.

## Career history

### Face/heel turns

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 Heel
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## Championships and accomplishments

* World Wrestling Federation
* WWF Championship(1 time)
* Intercontinental Championship(1 time)
* World Tag Team Championships(1 time) - with Haku
* 24/7 Championship(2 times)
* Royal Rumble(1991)
* Survivor Series Tag Tournament(1989) - with Haku
* Group of the Year(1985) with Kamala, Paul Orndorff, Hulk Hogan, King Kong Bundy and Bobby Heenan