I worked a morning show at WABC-TV in NYC in the late 70s (The Stanley Siegal Show). It featured one morning a bunch of wrestlers who had fought the night before in Madison Square Garden. The featured match was Bruno against Baron Von Rasche. Von Rasche didn't come to the show because he was embarrassed (he had lost). So here we have Bruno Sammartino, Ken Patera, Freddie Blassie & a few other wrestlers sitting on the stage to discuss the matches, their careers & the future of wrestling. But the education came during the commercial break when all these "enemies" were discussing their families, Patera was talking to Bruno about how expensive roller skates were for his kids. And naive me standing there wondering -- what's going on? Freddie Blassie laughing about the days when he was a wrestler decades before Bruno & Ken. Then seeing them shaking hands & saying they would meet up for dinner at The Ginger Man. The others were also some good guys & bad guys standing around talking like they were at a garden party. Then the cameras went on. Blassie went back to his pencil neck geek routine & had to be restrained by security. It was a blast. I got all their autographs anyway. They were all gentlemen. Patera and I talked about the strongest men in the Olympics and in the early days -- he was surprised that I knew Paul Anderson & Louis Cyr (one of the strongest men who ever lived). We got on fairly well that morning because he found someone he could talk to & didn't expect. At the time, Bruno was also considered one of the strongest men -- he even competed during the era of Arnold Schwarzenegger in strong man events (Ivan Putski as well -- came in 8 out 10 competitors) & there are pictures of them together. Wrestling may have been performed -- but the strength was always real.
@@soitsanightmare- You take everything literally like this? In this world of BS. Yes, they were together at such an event there are pictures of them together. Was it the "actual" strong man event? No. What do you think, it has to be an actual event to be called that? They call John L. Sullivan the first heavyweight champion -- but he was a bare-knuckle fighter. But, you have to start somewhere, don't you? What they attended was probably the infancy of the Strong Man event before it got organized. So, there's your definition. Happy? Now go to take the garbage out & mow the lawn. Do you think men like Bruno & Arnold couldn't attend these events, make appearances, and endorse them? I may be capable of fantasies but you're not even in this world.
For the record, if anyone cares to know ... Andre's tag-team partner in the match where Studd, Patera and Heenan cut his hair was S.D. "Special Delivery" Jones.
MR. "HOT TICKET" KEN PANTERA. 😂🤣😂 The face he made right after he said HOT TICKET at 0:09 when he grabbed his glasses and squinted his eyes was so bragadocious.
He’s so unintentionally funny. There’s another clip from this shoot that’s long gone from YT now where he’s talking about going to a whore house with Flair and one of the hookers fell in love with him and wanted a relationship, but he was married. So funny how he tells the story
Hogan Slammed Andre so many times in 1980 no one can count them! The one on T.V. then again at Shea, (which came first depending on the articles you read or see in shoot interviews) He slammed him in Philly once or twice, heck, practically every match they had Hogan Slammed Andre! Is it so difficult to believe Ken slammed Andre at multiple locations with out the cameras rolling????
This answers a couple questions I always had. I remember when Studd was the Executioner 2 in the mid 70's he was big but nowhere near as big as his Andre feuds in the 80s. Also if Andre was so devistated about his hair how come he never grew it back?
Butcher Vachon body slammed in the AWA late 60's early 70's. In fact in Andre's early career a lot of wrestlers slammed Andre. He was young and wrestled like all of them did.
Patera is forgetting Hogan’s first run in WWWF. He slammed Andre on TV and cut him with foreign object in his elbow sleeve. The Hogan Hammer as Vince called it. Blassie was his manager.
There is a film of Paul Vachon body slamming Andre in the 70's around. Nobody cared. I think the only one who hasn't slammed Andre is a waitress in Geogia
Whether he helped or not, some feats of these slams were astonishing. Look at the size difference between him and Harley Race. Race actually held Andre head over heels for more than a couple seconds. Kamala made one of the easiest full slam that I'd saw. Andre was capable of making sure that it wouldn't happen if he didn't want it to. But believe me, if he allowed it you had to be pretty powerful to do it convincingly. JB
Ken Patera. Greatest power lifter / wrestler of all time! I started power lifting because of you! AND I was IN New Haven when you slammed Andre the Giant like a sack of potatoes! And yes the entire coliseum was dead silent! Nothing but utter SHOCK!! You picked him up EFFORTLESSLY, NON SCRIPT, and through him to the ground and the ring floor bounced at least a foot in the air!! Hogan WISHES he could have done that.
@@SovereignStatesman Dont talk out your ass. Petera was the real deal. Could have pinned Hogan and any other wrestler at the time any time in real life. The boss never though that would sell.
@@richardsexton6341 I know what I'm talking about. I was in training for Olympic weightlifting; but I didn't use steroids and so I found out it was a lost hope. Patera definitely used them; if you're saying he didn't, then you're the one talking out your ass.
Patera was not the first to slam Andre, Andre had been slammed 1000 times before. Tho, Patera was the first to slam an atlas stone thru a McDonald’s window
Ok, so please help me if i missed something ? Patera supposedly slammed Andre during their Haircut angle ? Which occurred around 84 ?? So... i could never find any info on Patera slamming Andre. (Video, or recollection of others in the business) Patera certainly can't believe he was the first person as he stated ? While i believe he was more than capable of a true full slam against Andre, i just have never seen proof. JB
I think the match Patera is talking about was before the 1984 incident. But I still don't think he was the first guy to slam Andre. Hogan did it. Haku did it. Kamala did it. Harley Race did it. And I know Andre was slammed over in Japan.
Ken tells This same story about slamming Andre to anyone who will listen. Still salty after all these years. Hey Ken it’s just a work. Nobody thinks Hulk Hogan slammed him for the first time ever at wrestlemania three. Andre had been wrestling for 20 years of course people have slammed him before. It’s all the work buddy relax.
Verne Gagne joked that Ken could have won the Olympic Gold medal for weightlifting except for the fact he stayed up late chasing after the German girls in the Olympic Village before the competition .😉
I'VE LEARNED THROUGH HIS STORIES ON YOU TUBE YOU JUST CAN'T BELIEVE KEN AS HIS STORIES CHANGE EVERY TIME HE SAYS THEM. AS FAR AS KEN SAYS ANDRE LOVED JOHN STUDD AND EVERYONE INCLUDING HARLY RACE SAID NO ANDRE DID NOT LIKE JOHN STUDD.
I've heard other wrestlers say that even though Studd respected Andre, Andre didn't like Studd because John would step other the top rope when entering the ring and Andre thought that was "his thing". If so, very selfish and foolish on Andre's part. Better matches if the fans think Andre's opponent has a realistic chance of beating him. John had the "true giant" line in his promos and wanted it to look like he was a real threat. Just playing the heel and trying to generate interest.
I would have like to have known how his elite weightlifting background helped him with bodyslamming Andre the Giant. What was that like and is it true Hulk tore a lat slamming Andre at Wrestlemania 3?
“Buildings that would draw 500-600 people were drawing 15-20,000”. I don’t doubt they did good business with that angle, but major arenas that could hold 20,000 were drawing 500 before this angle? Lol.
Kamala slammed Andre too. The whole angle of Andre never getting slammed before Hogan worked so well.....back then. In todays internet, social media age it could never have happened.
In that case I might as well as save up a lot of money and pay for HGH injections for height growth while working out at the same time. This video is great. Thanks for sharing.
You can see that haircut match here on UA-cam and Ken is full of shit about knocking Andre out with the elbow and his elbow swelling up, nothing happened and Andre was acting. Wrestlers are always lying, the most honest wrestler was King Kong Bundy R.I.P
6'11" lol. Big John Studd is standing next to NFL player Bill Fralic (6'5") at WM2 doing a promo and they're both roughly the same height. BJS was either same height as Hogan (6'5") or maybe an inch taller at the most. He's no more than 6'6" at his tallest... and remember that Andre was 6'10", not the BS 7'5" that WWF kept trying to sell.
I think I read an article one time that the worst offenders of height inflation are people who are just under the next closest full foot in height. So people who are 5'11" are definitely going to inflate that to 6' tall. People who are a little under 7' tall (6'10") are going to inflate it to try and hit that magical 7 foot mark. Of all the people in the world who claimed to be 7 feet tall or taller, I think only 10% were actually true. The rest were living a lie. @@christopherwood2290
Lol yeah I was thinking that too when he said he grew in height from taking HGH...like what, that doesn't happen once puberty is over. And he said he was the first one to body slam andre. I dunno, could be true, but guy sounds like a pathological liar.
95% of what he says is false. This match is on YT on he slammed Andre with the help of big John. The crowd was loud vs quiet as he says. Too many steroids impacts your memory.
@@SovereignStatesman yes HGH can make your head get bigger but its not going to get 3in bigger in diameter. which would make you 3inchs taller. they said Sammy Sosa went up a bunch of hat sizes when he was taking all that shit trying to break the homerun record
"I could have been the main event in Montreal for the next 20 years"? Yeah um.... I think Bret and Shawn might have something to say about that actually....
Yeah I was thinking as well there is no drug these days that can make you taller once you have reached your maximum adult height I doubt there was any back in the 70's / 80's - yeah sure make you larger in mass NOT in height he is talking shit
I think i know which shoot you're talking about, but it's not this one. He's sober here and very articulate (for Patera standards). That one you're talking took place 3 or 4 years after this and he was really drunk lol.
@@mauriceatwell5939 The internet is your friend. Schmunck below mentioned Butcher Vachon. That tape is around. They casually exchange body slams as any two wrestlers would do.
Grows everything but your brain and eyes bones spine barely but tendons and ligaments grow lot's which is why you would get inch inch and a half taller probably exaggerated studs height a bit.
Yes it can, not because it makes the bones grow longer since the platelets become fused together by 19 or 20 yrs of age. It actually can mimic the effects of Acromegaly causing the body to continue to get larger in any way, such as hands, feet & chest getting larger, as well as the cranium. If Studd took enough HGH & steroids it's very possible he became approx 2 inches taller & weighed that much more. Which is exactly what happened if you go through '84 to '89. Yeah he got notably bigger, but still couldn't equal the size of Andre. RIP to both men. PEACE!
@@AndreGNSEntertainment If so that would have been Andre around 1972-1974, definitely not the 1984/85 timeframe Patera is referring to. I would still say he was 6'10 or so because he was barely an inch taller than Ernie Ladd who was 6'9 ( legit)
I just watched the match he's talking about and he didn't slam Andre. It was a double slam with Studd. Funny how these guys embellish and change details. I guess it's no surprise since that's what wrestling is all about. ua-cam.com/video/H7XJ2-hKy60/v-deo.html
Patera’s shoots are hilarious… he just kicks back, and could care less what comes out of his mouth lol
"... couldn't care less..."😉
Lol 😆 exactly
I guess being drunk as a skunk helps with the straight shoot interviews lol!
And truth isn't that important with Ken.
Patera was scary strong before he got hurt.
Patera and studd was a great heel team.
I get the impression Ken asked himself to the senior prom.
And he still said no.
18th march 2023
Yea 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Lol 😆
I remember Vince on commentary at the time . “ they are raping this man of his dignity “ 😢 He played it off so well.
And if anyone knows about raping ........
I worked a morning show at WABC-TV in NYC in the late 70s (The Stanley Siegal Show). It featured one morning a bunch of wrestlers who had fought the night before in Madison Square Garden. The featured match was Bruno against Baron Von Rasche. Von Rasche didn't come to the show because he was embarrassed (he had lost).
So here we have Bruno Sammartino, Ken Patera, Freddie Blassie & a few other wrestlers sitting on the stage to discuss the matches, their careers & the future of wrestling.
But the education came during the commercial break when all these "enemies" were discussing their families, Patera was talking to Bruno about how expensive roller skates were for his kids. And naive me standing there wondering -- what's going on?
Freddie Blassie laughing about the days when he was a wrestler decades before Bruno & Ken. Then seeing them shaking hands & saying they would meet up for dinner at The Ginger Man. The others were also some good guys & bad guys standing around talking like they were at a garden party.
Then the cameras went on. Blassie went back to his pencil neck geek routine & had to be restrained by security. It was a blast. I got all their autographs anyway. They were all gentlemen.
Patera and I talked about the strongest men in the Olympics and in the early days -- he was surprised that I knew Paul Anderson & Louis Cyr (one of the strongest men who ever lived). We got on fairly well that morning because he found someone he could talk to & didn't expect.
At the time, Bruno was also considered one of the strongest men -- he even competed during the era of Arnold Schwarzenegger in strong man events (Ivan Putski as well -- came in 8 out 10 competitors) & there are pictures of them together. Wrestling may have been performed -- but the strength was always real.
Strongman wasn't around during Brunos Era. Arnold? Arnold was a bodybuilder in the 70s.....what the fuck are u fantasizing about?
@@soitsanightmare- You take everything literally like this? In this world of BS. Yes, they were together at such an event there are pictures of them together. Was it the "actual" strong man event? No. What do you think, it has to be an actual event to be called that?
They call John L. Sullivan the first heavyweight champion -- but he was a bare-knuckle fighter. But, you have to start somewhere, don't you?
What they attended was probably the infancy of the Strong Man event before it got organized. So, there's your definition. Happy? Now go to take the garbage out & mow the lawn.
Do you think men like Bruno & Arnold couldn't attend these events, make appearances, and endorse them?
I may be capable of fantasies but you're not even in this world.
Bruno couldn't carry Hogan's bald spot
I Always Loved Andre's Afro.
Andre hated it, that's why he demanded the hair-cutting thing with Heenan.
So did I
Ken Patera's become Randy Newman. I approve.
LOL that's what steroids will do
I'm expecting him to start singing "Short people got, no reason..."
That's what I'm talking about, proper hooliganism
I LOOOOVVVEEE L.A.!!
He should come to a live wrestling event in LA.... Give him a mic.. let him sing.. " I Love LA "
He Loves L.A.
Ken Patera was a bad ass before he got hurt. I remember him in the cage matches kicking ass
For the record, if anyone cares to know ... Andre's tag-team partner in the match where Studd, Patera and Heenan cut his hair was S.D. "Special Delivery" Jones.
SD was good for a head butt or two but that was pretty much it.
Special Delivery Jones was a Beast
The only thing is, in that match they had a special delivery for him.
Another great story about Andre 🥇
Unfortunately it's mostly baloney.
MR. "HOT TICKET" KEN PANTERA. 😂🤣😂
The face he made right after he said HOT TICKET at 0:09 when he grabbed his glasses and squinted his eyes was so bragadocious.
He’s so unintentionally funny. There’s another clip from this shoot that’s long gone from YT now where he’s talking about going to a whore house with Flair and one of the hookers fell in love with him and wanted a relationship, but he was married. So funny how he tells the story
🤣🤣🤣 HOT TICKET MAN
Ken’s brother Jack was the first coach of the Seahawks.
Patera is an unconscious comedian. I always laugh at that (casual) line ... " they give it to midgets, ye know ..... small people"
Me too lmao
Take a drink every time Kenny drops an f bomb.
Are you trying to kill someone?!?😂
Even the Hulkster was forgotten about body slamming Andre, his 2nd slam was the one remembered as the first time by most people.
Hogan Slammed Andre so many times in 1980 no one can count them! The one on T.V. then again at Shea, (which came first depending on the articles you read or see in shoot interviews) He slammed him in Philly once or twice, heck, practically every match they had Hogan Slammed Andre! Is it so difficult to believe Ken slammed Andre at multiple locations with out the cameras rolling????
@Vincent Verona 1979-80
@Vincent Verona Ha ha ha, get them riled up.
I remember that angle it was fantastic
That goes to show Andre liked Ken. Cause if he didn't like you he gave you hell in the ring.
Ken is lying Andre didn't like studd
@@michaelallanrubin2376 I think he said Studd liked Andre
@@rickrick5041 that's not true
@@michaelallanrubin2376 Yes it is. Listen again right near the beginning
@@rickrick5041 Studd was scared to death of Andre. Studd once ran from the ring (got counted out) saying that Andre tried to kill him.
Kens my favorite old crab
Everyone's a legend in their own mind
I love how he explains what a midget is...CLassic LOL
LOL. He cracks me up.
0:44 Pure gold snydesy; pure gold I say.
I remember seeing that match. When I saw Sd Jones as Andre's partner, I knew that ain't a good sign.
LMAO!.........yep!
SD was good for a head butt and some dancing around but that was about it.
This answers a couple questions I always had.
I remember when Studd was the Executioner 2 in the mid 70's he was big but nowhere near as big as his Andre feuds in the 80s.
Also if Andre was so devistated about his hair how come he never grew it back?
I'm 6"8 and when I was at an Andre V Studd match, ringside, they were both taller than me.
Studd was 6’6” tops Andre was 6’10 peak
Hey its the detective Arthur Dietrich from Barney Miller .
Never heard this story Great job
I bet Ken talks about his past alot, can't blame him. What stories he can tell 🤔
Harley Race Body Slammed Andre in 1978 ....
Body-slam has to be above the shoulders.
@Big pimpin You're confusing body-slam with scoop-slam
Kamala too
@@SovereignStatesman Harley Race Body Slammed Andre in 1978 once again
@@SovereignStatesman Your confusing listening to Vince think for yourself
Harley Race slammed him in the 70s
Hogan did in 80. There is exactly zero evidence Petra did.
It was unbelievable
People literally hanging from the rafters
HGH makes you taller??? :O
I had forgotten Kamala, The Ugandan Giant also body slammed Andre
I like Kamala slam when he slaps his belly dance afterwards.
Harley Race slammed Andre fairly effortlessly he's one of the 3 wrestlers Andre didnt mess with a legit tough guy
@orgonkothewildlyuntamed6301 Stan Hansen slammed him clean
Don't let anyone bs you.....Patera was great.
Patera reeks.
He’s shit and a liar lol wtf you talking dude 💀
1978-79, Ken Patera and John Studd were the Mid-Atlantic Tag Team Champions.
Butcher Vachon body slammed in the AWA late 60's early 70's. In fact in Andre's early career a lot of wrestlers slammed Andre. He was young and wrestled like all of them did.
Those were dark-matches, however.
Got heavier every year
@Make Me Believe and not a lot of help from Andre as he got older and less mobile either
@@SovereignStatesman no they weren’t. You can find them on UA-cam.
The first to slam Andre was Strong Kobayashi
🤩🇺🇸👍Great Stuff and that's what legends are made of!🤩🇺🇸👍
Patera is forgetting Hogan’s first run in WWWF. He slammed Andre on TV and cut him with foreign object in his elbow sleeve. The Hogan Hammer as Vince called it. Blassie was his manager.
Mark Henry, Bill Kazmaier, and Ken Patera - the 3 strongest pro wrestlers of all time period
And out of those three that u mentioned Patera was Obviously the best worker.
Don‘t forget Ted Arcidi
@@AlBundy654 Again obviously Patera best worker out of all those guys
@@jgfear Definitely he is the best worker I was a huge fan of his in AWA 1984 and WWF 1985.
Dino Bravo
"thought he was going to be on the cover of GQ or something" lol
Sorry Ken, you weren't Andres' 1st, or 2nd, or 3rd
There is a film of Paul Vachon body slamming Andre in the 70's around. Nobody cared. I think the only one who hasn't slammed Andre is a waitress in Geogia
My understanding is that "Big John Studd" Minton was was just a Gentle Giant!
OMG! So the haircut stunt was Andre's idea! Amazing!!!
Hogan actually slammed Andre in 1980 at Shea Stadium. ...... soooooo
He also slammed Andre on a TV match that year too
Over 20 guys did
Hogan slammed him at a House Show
Harley Race and Bill Edy (Ax/Masked Superstar) were tow of the first to slam Andre I believe
Hogan slammed Andre in the Memphis area when he went by the name Sterling Golden in 79
If Andre didn't want to be body slammed their no way anybody could do it not with Andre helping . Amagin lifting 500 pounds of dead weight.
There’s no way
Of course. That’s wrestling
I wouldn't agree with that. Someone like Mark Henry can dead lift and squat nearly 1000lb.
Whether he helped or not, some feats of these slams were astonishing. Look at the size difference between him and Harley Race. Race actually held Andre head over heels for more than a couple seconds. Kamala made one of the easiest full slam that I'd saw. Andre was capable of making sure that it wouldn't happen if he didn't want it to. But believe me, if he allowed it you had to be pretty powerful to do it convincingly. JB
Bet tony atlas could have
Ken Patera. Greatest power lifter / wrestler of all time! I started power lifting because of you! AND I was IN New Haven when you slammed Andre the Giant like a sack of potatoes! And yes the entire coliseum was dead silent! Nothing but utter SHOCK!! You picked him up EFFORTLESSLY, NON SCRIPT, and through him to the ground and the ring floor bounced at least a foot in the air!! Hogan WISHES he could have done that.
Did you take steroids like him?
@@SovereignStatesman Dont talk out your ass. Petera was the real deal. Could have pinned Hogan and any other wrestler at the time any time in real life. The boss never though that would sell.
@@richardsexton6341 I know what I'm talking about. I was in training for Olympic weightlifting; but I didn't use steroids and so I found out it was a lost hope.
Patera definitely used them; if you're saying he didn't, then you're the one talking out your ass.
Tom Evans lol everybody is an Olympic weightlifter online. Lol
@@MrBallerbjoel I never said I made the Olympics dumbass. I said I gave up hope because it's impossible without steroids.
He looked great after the haircut
Patera was not the first to slam Andre, Andre had been slammed 1000 times before. Tho, Patera was the first to slam an atlas stone thru a McDonald’s window
LOL Good One!
Ok, so please help me if i missed something ? Patera supposedly slammed Andre during their Haircut angle ? Which occurred around 84 ?? So... i could never find any info on Patera slamming Andre. (Video, or recollection of others in the business) Patera certainly can't believe he was the first person as he stated ? While i believe he was more than capable of a true full slam against Andre, i just have never seen proof. JB
I think the match Patera is talking about was before the 1984 incident. But I still don't think he was the first guy to slam Andre. Hogan did it. Haku did it. Kamala did it. Harley Race did it. And I know Andre was slammed over in Japan.
@@MafiaKingfishNOLA absolutely friend !
Someone should turn the record level up more next time. It's not over-modulated enough for me. 😖
Ken tells This same story about slamming Andre to anyone who will listen. Still salty after all these years. Hey Ken it’s just a work. Nobody thinks Hulk Hogan slammed him for the first time ever at wrestlemania three. Andre had been wrestling for 20 years of course people have slammed him before. It’s all the work buddy relax.
I saw Hogan slam Andre in the early Eighties. Look it up on UA-cam
Verne Gagne joked that Ken could have won the Olympic Gold medal for weightlifting except for the fact he stayed up late chasing after the German girls in the Olympic Village before the competition .😉
You know how many "I slammed Andre first" stories there are out there? Dozens.
Butcher Vachon
Soldier Field
Chicago, IL
September 1, 1972
The match is on UA-cam.
I travelled back in time to 1971 to bodyslam Andre the Giant for the first time.
lol if hgh would make you grow in height hhh would be 12 feet by now
Scott Steiner is taller than the Empire state building.
I'VE LEARNED THROUGH HIS STORIES ON YOU TUBE YOU JUST CAN'T BELIEVE KEN AS HIS STORIES CHANGE EVERY TIME HE SAYS THEM. AS FAR AS KEN SAYS ANDRE LOVED JOHN STUDD AND EVERYONE INCLUDING HARLY RACE SAID NO ANDRE DID NOT LIKE JOHN STUDD.
2:54. New Haven, CT my hometown. A WWWF stronghold.
I've heard other wrestlers say that even though Studd respected Andre, Andre didn't like Studd because John would step other the top rope when entering the ring and Andre thought that was "his thing". If so, very selfish and foolish on Andre's part. Better matches if the fans think Andre's opponent has a realistic chance of beating him. John had the "true giant" line in his promos and wanted it to look like he was a real threat. Just playing the heel and trying to generate interest.
I would have like to have known how his elite weightlifting background helped him with bodyslamming Andre the Giant. What was that like and is it true Hulk tore a lat slamming Andre at Wrestlemania 3?
“Buildings that would draw 500-600 people were drawing 15-20,000”. I don’t doubt they did good business with that angle, but major arenas that could hold 20,000 were drawing 500 before this angle? Lol.
😂👌 And they turned thousands away. 😂🤣😂🤣
What a cornball!!
He said there were 20,000 people in the arena at New Haven. Well I live here. The capacity is 8,000. Building is long gone now.
Kamala slammed Andre too. The whole angle of Andre never getting slammed before Hogan worked so well.....back then. In todays internet, social media age it could never have happened.
Yeah. Kamala slammed him in Mid South
In that case I might as well as save up a lot of money and pay for HGH injections for height growth while working out at the same time. This video is great. Thanks for sharing.
It doesn't work to increase height if you've stopped growing already. It can increase risk of cancer and reduce lifespan.
HGH probably started or helped Big John’s cancer.
Im glad he explained how he slammed giant first instead of Hogan punk arse,thank you
Studd was never taller than 6'8"! Hogan at 6'7" (Or a little under) was only an inch shorter than the billed 6'10" Studd.
I wonder if Ken is related to Tommy Karate 🤔
You can see that haircut match here on UA-cam and Ken is full of shit about knocking Andre out with the elbow and his elbow swelling up, nothing happened and Andre was acting. Wrestlers are always lying, the most honest wrestler was King Kong Bundy R.I.P
So true, they come up with these crazy stories and think people are naive enough to believe them.
I think the most honest wrestlers were probably the Mulkeys. They actually could have been trying
You wouldn't gain height from HGH as an adult. The ends of the bones fuse when you're young, and don't grow longer anymore.
6'11" lol. Big John Studd is standing next to NFL player Bill Fralic (6'5") at WM2 doing a promo and they're both roughly the same height. BJS was either same height as Hogan (6'5") or maybe an inch taller at the most. He's no more than 6'6" at his tallest... and remember that Andre was 6'10", not the BS 7'5" that WWF kept trying to sell.
Yeah, the exaggerations are just unreal. Yet most people don't question any of it.
I think I read an article one time that the worst offenders of height inflation are people who are just under the next closest full foot in height.
So people who are 5'11" are definitely going to inflate that to 6' tall. People who are a little under 7' tall (6'10") are going to inflate it to try and hit that magical 7 foot mark.
Of all the people in the world who claimed to be 7 feet tall or taller, I think only 10% were actually true. The rest were living a lie. @@christopherwood2290
Looks like a 6th grade science teacher.
😂😂😂 Duzn't sound lyk 1 tho!!!
Patera acts like he wasn’t juicing too!
Karl Gotch suplexed Andre legit way before this.
To hear that studd idolized andre....
Back in that time, they couldn't produce HGH in a lab. They had to extract it from corpses, and I'm not kidding.
HGH does not make you grow taller once you've already reached your maximum height just look at bodybuilders
Lol yeah I was thinking that too when he said he grew in height from taking HGH...like what, that doesn't happen once puberty is over.
And he said he was the first one to body slam andre. I dunno, could be true, but guy sounds like a pathological liar.
Ken Patera is full of shit ,he is liar and shitty worker "beat me like a red headed step-son"
all this "who slammed him first?"... it's a work guys
Honestly i believe Harley Race bodyslammed Andre before anyone, including Patera
I guess Ken forgot about Harley Race slamming Andre years before he did
A legit 6'9" Ernie Ladd towered over Big John Studd.
Ken's career came to an end after Dino Bravo defeated him with the side slam.
95% of what he says is false. This match is on YT on he slammed Andre with the help of big John. The crowd was loud vs quiet as he says. Too many steroids impacts your memory.
Don Leo Jonathan beat the Stink Giant Legit 1,2,3 in Montreal ..and SLAMMED HIM
Recognizing nothing is wrestling is legit
@@nomikes4392 Spot on especially a giant being 7'4
kayfabe x 100
Even though Ken is stronger then Hogan The Giant was lighter when Ken Slammed him and much larger almost a 100 pounds bigger when Hogan did at WM3
Patera is awesome. Love the F bombs
Kinda creepy the way he says...."Soooo fuckinnn hotttt"....Yikes!
It doesn't make you grow in height as an adult after the growth plates in your bones have fused
People said that only Studd's HEAD got bigger-- which HGH can DEFINITELY do; look at Andre.
@@SovereignStatesman yes HGH can make your head get bigger but its not going to get 3in bigger in diameter. which would make you 3inchs taller. they said Sammy Sosa went up a bunch of hat sizes when he was taking all that shit trying to break the homerun record
@@darrenporsch he also turned white
@@beyondbeleef1013 he turned white cuz he also goes through this skin bleaching process.
@@darrenporsch yea I know was just joking
Sounds like Hogan ffs
Butcher Vachon Body slammed Andre in Chicago in 72,long before Ken Was wrestling
"I could have been the main event in Montreal for the next 20 years"? Yeah um.... I think Bret and Shawn might have something to say about that actually....
John Studd took, as an adult, human growth hormone and grew from 6'8 to 6'11??!
Crazy - never heard that one before
Bullshit
That's a total work..he was never that tall..6.7 at most!
@@shanetutt518 6'10 Legit
@@CP-kb1du maybe in 3inch.lifts..lol
GROWTH HORMONE only makes you grow in height when you're a child , NOT AS AN ADULT
Ken Patera looking like Walter White... probably on blue meth too!😅
John Studd was NEVER in his career 6'11". Andre in reality was only 7' and Studd was never within more than 2" of Andre. He was more like 6'9"
Wrestlers are always full of shit
@Big pimpin lol
I’d say they were closer to the size of Rey Mysterious.
Caw Caw
Yeah I was thinking as well there is no drug these days that can make you taller once you have reached your maximum adult height I doubt there was any back in the 70's / 80's - yeah sure make you larger in mass NOT in height he is talking shit
I didn't recognize Ken without his bleach blond hair
So wrestling is fake?
Is this the same shoot interview where at the end of it Patera is a shit load of beers in and just loud and obnoxious?
I think i know which shoot you're talking about, but it's not this one. He's sober here and very articulate (for Patera standards). That one you're talking took place 3 or 4 years after this and he was really drunk lol.
@@AndreGNSEntertainment lol hes brilliant with the drink in him, I wish there were more shoot interviews of Patera.
Yea, the video where he's drunk is the RF inteview in 2008, i think there's some clips on UA-cam. And there's a Ric Flair podcast with him too.
No, this one he's pretty coherent. A much better shoot.
Steroids make you taller? I'm 5'6 - I should have taken them!
Didn't know they stacked shit that high.
Harley Race was the first man to body slam Andre in Atlanta
Not hardly unless you mean the first body slam IN ATLANTA. That could be true. But he was slammed many times before Harley
@@nomikes4392
Probably so
I am.not aware of it
@@mauriceatwell5939 The internet is your friend. Schmunck below mentioned Butcher Vachon. That tape is around. They casually exchange body slams as any two wrestlers would do.
I don’t think HGH make your spine grow and bones lengthen. This guy fell on his head too much.
it doesn't make you taller lol, you are correct.
Grows everything but your brain and eyes bones spine barely but tendons and ligaments grow lot's which is why you would get inch inch and a half taller probably exaggerated studs height a bit.
Yea I don't think HGH makes adults taller
If you develop a tumor from overuse it’s possible
Yes it can, not because it makes the bones grow longer since the platelets become fused together by 19 or 20 yrs of age. It actually can mimic the effects of Acromegaly causing the body to continue to get larger in any way, such as hands, feet & chest getting larger, as well as the cranium. If Studd took enough HGH & steroids it's very possible he became approx 2 inches taller & weighed that much more. Which is exactly what happened if you go through '84 to '89. Yeah he got notably bigger, but still couldn't equal the size of Andre. RIP to both men. PEACE!
I'm gonna rub it on my wiener.
Yes it can
Look at before and after photos of Rich Pianna and tell me it doesn’t make you taller
He seems like such a bitter person.
Seems like a dweeb.
If Studd was 6'11 plus he would have been taller than Andre who was 6'10 tops
Andre's peak height was 7'0
@@AndreGNSEntertainment If so that would have been Andre around 1972-1974, definitely not the 1984/85 timeframe Patera is referring to. I would still say he was 6'10 or so because he was barely an inch taller than Ernie Ladd who was 6'9 ( legit)
andre was way taller then 6'10 lol
Andre the giant was 7 ft 4 in 520 lbs
He was billed at 7'4 and 520 lbs but his real peak height was 7'0
I just watched the match he's talking about and he didn't slam Andre. It was a double slam with Studd. Funny how these guys embellish and change details. I guess it's no surprise since that's what wrestling is all about. ua-cam.com/video/H7XJ2-hKy60/v-deo.html
He was talking about another singles match where he slammed him. Not the haircut match.
@@SuperCanefan26 I see that now when I watch it again.