Andre/Prichard Question

[Ishmeal Loves BBL Bayley]

Maybe one of you guys could help me. I seem to recall a story of there being a casket for Andre in the WWE Warehouse, and when it was brought up to Vince, he was surprised by it. I feel like this happened on the Something to Wrestle podcast. Am I making this up?

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

Mar 21, 2019 8:22:02 GMT -5 Ishmeal Loves BBL Bayley said:

Maybe one of you guys could help me. I seem to recall a story of there being a casket for Andre in the WWE Warehouse, and when it was brought up to Vince, he was surprised by it. I feel like this happened on the Something to Wrestle podcast. Am I making this up?

Not for Andre but they were testing it for the first casket match between Taker and Yokozuna.

[Cranjis McBasketball]

Andre was creamted, and was done, in ring in WWF before Taker started. So seems made up.

[jason1980s]

I seem to remember a story going Bruce said Vince had Andre's casket in WWF headquarters. It was specifically in reference to Andre and no gimmick Undertaker reference. As Cranjis said, Andre was cremated so not sure what the main story was but perhaps Andre's family had a mock casket made and it was given to Vince or maybe a WWF staff made a casket for Vince to have.

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That Andre HBO documentary was interesting in ways, but it was curious to see Vince's reactions, especially at the end of Andre's story.....

....something bad happened between the 2, I always figured Andre doing that WCW spot in late '92 was signs of a falling out, ultimatley Vince *I think* regretted it all, and he seemed choked up in the doc about it but then spun it into "I just let that stuff go" - which was either very ominous or very mellow.

So Vince having a casket.........jury could be out for a long time trying to figure out what that means...

[jason1980s]

I think Andre was one of the few wrestlers Vince McMahon truly loved or cared the most about.

[Cranjis McBasketball]

Mar 21, 2019 15:47:07 GMT -5 @knapp said:

That Andre HBO documentary was interesting in ways, but it was curious to see Vince's reactions, especially at the end of Andre's story.....

....something bad happened between the 2, I always figured Andre doing that WCW spot in late '92 was signs of a falling out, ultimatley Vince *I think* regretted it all, and he seemed choked up in the doc about it but then spun it into "I just let that stuff go" - which was either very ominous or very mellow.

So Vince having a casket.........jury could be out for a long time trying to figure out what that means...

Heenan had said in the late 80’s Andre was getting annoyed by Vince. Andre’s contract was written in stone by Vince Sr and only existed as a handshake. VKM didn’t feel the need to always honour it.

[chazraps]

Mar 21, 2019 8:22:02 GMT -5 Ishmeal Loves BBL Bayley said:

Maybe one of you guys could help me. I seem to recall a story of there being a casket for Andre in the WWE Warehouse, and when it was brought up to Vince, he was surprised by it. I feel like this happened on the Something to Wrestle podcast. Am I making this up?

Is it possible you may have misheard "cast" as "casket?" It has been verified that a cast Andre wore for a time is in the warehouse.

[Cranjis McBasketball]

Mar 22, 2019 1:35:06 GMT -5 chazraps said:

Mar 21, 2019 8:22:02 GMT -5 Ishmeal Loves BBL Bayley said:

Maybe one of you guys could help me. I seem to recall a story of there being a casket for Andre in the WWE Warehouse, and when it was brought up to Vince, he was surprised by it. I feel like this happened on the Something to Wrestle podcast. Am I making this up?

Is it possible you may have misheard "cast" as "casket?" It has been verified that a cast Andre wore for a time is in the warehouse.

Andre took the cast with him to Letterman.

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That actually was Andre's casket, because Andre wasn't cremated. Prior to passing away a few years ago, he was living with Tupac in North Platte, Nebraska, at which time he was kept in storage in a WWE warehouse until he was converted into a bronze statue in 2013.