Loss Posted January 1, 2013 Report Share Posted January 1, 2013 Talk about it here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted April 1, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 1, 2013 Jimmy Hart announces that he has formed the mother of all tag teams -- Earthquake and Andre the Giant. Quake and Andre size each other up before shaking hands. Andre reveals that he has not signed with Jimmy Hart and has a laugh before Earthquake sneak attacks him and works over his leg. I guess Jake isn't getting revenge for Damian's death, as he seems to be moving on to other things now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteF3 Posted April 10, 2013 Report Share Posted April 10, 2013 I actually rather liked this angle as a payoff to the ongoing Andre/managers stuff. Nice to see Jimmy getting one over on Andre. The Giant takes his lumps despite apparently needing Jimmy's assistance to get to the ring. I can't fathom that there were any plans to actually run this as a match, but they give this angle a hell of a lot of time, and for what it is it's a decent way to make use of the guy in his advanced years. "One thing you gotta say about Andre, he did a lot better than Damian did!" I miss heel Savage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoe Posted April 10, 2013 Report Share Posted April 10, 2013 What a great angle and the way Andre sells is tremendous. It's a shame we aren't going to get a pay off to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Childs Posted April 10, 2013 Report Share Posted April 10, 2013 I found this segment deeply sad as a kid. Andre was bigger than life to me when I became a fan and to see him move this way ... just dispiriting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Ridge Posted May 7, 2013 Report Share Posted May 7, 2013 Jimmy runs down all the way to the entrance so Andre can use him to balance as he walks to the ring. Earthquake and Andre would have been a cool tag team. Andre finally gets on the wrong side of a manager as Jimmy was smart enough to have his wrestler there. Andre can barely move but still does a believable job of selling the leg injury. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RCS1988 Posted July 1, 2013 Report Share Posted July 1, 2013 I'm really surprised that Andre never appeared on the Funeral Parlour, with Bearer trying to manage Andre, then we could of had the greatest tag team of all time. Andre the Giant & the Undertaker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soup23 Posted August 28, 2013 Report Share Posted August 28, 2013 They really have pushed Quake well the past couple months with this and the Damian angle. Sucks they didn't do anything with it. Savage is still really heel on commentary. This was a really cool angle overall and maximized Andre as much as you could at this point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garretta Posted June 5, 2015 Report Share Posted June 5, 2015 This is the type of angle that would have led to sold-out houses ten, or even five, years before. Unfortunately, all it led to now was a series of Andre appearances as a do-nothing cornerman for various faces as they went against Quake. The angle itself was still masterfully done, as befits a legend, and despite the fact that most fans with a working pair of eyes knew that the Giant was almost unable to move (or speak, as Jimmy carried 98% of the interview before the attack), Quake still looked like a badass for taking him down. Savage was at his prickish best here, with the line comparing Andre to Damien and also his inside reference to this being "last call" for Andre the legendary drinker. For his part, Vince repeated some lines he'd used in the past: he's never seen the Giant down like this before (at least since Duggan knocked him out with the two-by-four) and he won't allow the indignity of watching Andre crawl back to the dressing room to continue (which is in the same ballpark as the infamous "raping Andre's dignity" call from the Studd/Patera haircut angle). Piper tried to sell Andre as being the force of nature he once was, someone who will come back to beat Quake, but I doubt even he believed it. What this needed was a babyface to make the save for Andre and take his part against Quake. I know Jake was already starting to turn, but what about Duggan? Sure, he'd fought Quake before, but it would have been a good way to get him back in the midcard mix. How about Bossman, which would have tied in with the Mountie feud? Or the LOD, which would have set them up with the Nasties quite nicely? As a kind of afterthought, they stuck the Bushwhackers in that spot, but only to put over the Natural Disasters, if I recall correctly. Andre deserved someone who was fighting directly for, and because of, him. I loved Andre's selling too, especially knowing that it really wasn't all selling. What a dedicated performer he still was to go through with an angle like this that had to be legitimately painful, even with Quake taking it easy on him. I was actually rooting for him to walk out of the arena under his own power, although it was neither desirable in a kayfabe sense nor possible in real life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawho5 Posted November 21, 2017 Report Share Posted November 21, 2017 Great segment just as a last hurrah for Andre. The big man showed a lot of heart even doing as much as he did, given his clear lack of mobility. 8th Wonder of the World indeed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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