What was Andre the Giant's real hieght?

[leemir]

Bruno wasn't really 6'1" he was really 5'11", like most just billed a few inches bigger.

[AmericanDragon420]

I heard Meltz and Cornette day 6''11' but that promoters would exagurate it.

Oh and in case you didn't know, WWE (and every company probably, just not as much as the E) exagurates everyones height and weight to make them seem bigger.

[OtisMaximus]

I still say he was well over 7 feet in his prime... when he got older he shrunk a fair bit.

[lildude8218]

He was only 5'7, it's all camera tricks folks. Simple camera tricks.

[MoleMan]

fallenangel89 said:

I heard Meltz and Cornette day 6''11' but that promoters would exagurate it.

Oh and in case you didn't know, WWE (and every company probably, just not as much as the E) exagurates everyones height and weight to make them seem bigger.

Like how Benoit became an inch taller and 9 lb. heavier after he won the rumble.

I know Big Shows size is Legit from what I heard. He's about 7 foot 1/2 inch. and around 500 lb. I'm guess he's about the same size Andre was.

[thiazzi]

My mom met Andre back in the day and said that he was taller than hell and had hands the size of pizza boxes. Or something like that.

[willywonka666]

otismaximus said:

I still say he was well over 7 feet in his prime... when he got older he shrunk a fair bit.

Agreed, I remember seeing him with Vince in the late 70's and he was obviously standing on a box, but he was so damn huge anyway there really was no need for it, eventually i think they quit doing that

[STMP]

Andre standing on a crate was done to make him look even bigger. I remember watching Vince interview him and he came to his waist. That was the magic of pro-wrestling, making everything seem even bigger when it didn't even have to.

I don't know how tall Andre was, but don't understimate how extremely large everthing was about him. Just look at his head and his hands.

[royboy8]

stevepatch said:

I heard Meltzer say once that the tallest Andre ever was was 6ft9.

Meltzer is a complete hating anything E related Moron.

[OtisMaximus]

Yeah look at that pic with Snuka... he's over 7 feet.

[thwak is T.hawk]

oh and for the people who doubt andre the giant was a big guy, remember he eventually died because of giantisim.

face it andre was a big guy.

[thesunbeast]

maxx420 said:

suicidemachine said:

Yeah, but in a lot of pics that feature his whole body, he looks 2 heads hire than a lot of good sized wrestler. I know he looked shorter at Mania 3 because of his back problems, but he looked a lot taller than hogan in japan.

Not that I doubt you, but have you got any pics you can show us? Are they online somewhere?

Andre did stand on crates, and they did use a camera angle from the bottom to hake him look even bigger, but it has nothing to do really weather or not he was actually 7'4". They just did it to make him look "Larger than life".

[thesunbeast]

maxx420 said:

suicidemachine said:

Yeah, but in a lot of pics that feature his whole body, he looks 2 heads hire than a lot of good sized wrestler. I know he looked shorter at Mania 3 because of his back problems, but he looked a lot taller than hogan in japan.

Not that I doubt you, but have you got any pics you can show us? Are they online somewhere?

Andre did stand on crates, and they did use a camera angle from the bottom to hake him look even bigger, but it has nothing to do really weather or not he was actually 7'4". They just did it to make him look "Larger than life".

[BHB]

suicidemachine said:

I know Big Shows size is Legit from what I heard. He's about 7 foot 1/2 inch. and around 500 lb. I'm guess he's about the same size Andre was.

He probably is 500 pounds now but when he came in he was maybe 350-400 at most.

[thiazzi]

Watch old WCW tapes of The Giant. He was f***ing in shape, threw dropkicks and stuff. Crazy.

[The Boss]

maxx420 said:

I've heard 6'10''. He stood on crates whenever he was being interviewed & suchforth to give the illusion of greater height. Whenever you can't see Andre's feet in a publicity shot & he's standing next to someone else, he's most likely standing on a crate.

Yeah in those interview he looked like he was over 8'.

Seeing Andre regularly facing men who are 6' 6" or taller, it's easy to underestimate how big he really was. I had the pleasure of meeting Andre fact to f... well, gut. He was indeed 7'4". When I shook his hand, his hand took up half of my forearm.

[The Boss]

thesunbeast said:

Andre did stand on crates, and they did use a camera angle from the bottom to hake him look even bigger, but it has nothing to do really weather or not he was actually 7'4". They just did it to make him look "Larger than life".

Exactly.

[The Boss]

steamboat1 said:

There used to be a picture of Andre with Wilt Chamberlain and Arnold Schwarzenegger from the Conan set. Wilt was 7' 2" and Andre is about 2 inches shorter so i would put him at 7'. Plus he had that back surgery in 87, and after any surgery on the back you usually lose height because your posture is gone. So I would say he was 7' at his tallest and about 6' 10-6'11 at the end of his career.

I've seen that picture. If you look you can see that while Wilt was standing straight up with hands on hips looking at the camera, Andre is leaning over saying something to Schwarzenegger. So naturally Andre would appear shorter. But if they were both standing erect you could see that Andre was the taller.

[Johnny Danger (Godz)]

Also keep in mind that most of the time we saw Andre he was slouching or hunched due to back problems.

[The Boss]

That was later in his career. Watch some of his matches from the 1970s when he was young and healthy. He towers over everyone.