Haku on Teaming with Andre The Giant
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- Haku on Teaming with Andre The Giant
WWE/WCW/New Japan Pro Wrestling Superstar Haku aka Meng aka King Tonga talks about his WWE World Tag Team Championship Tag Team with "WWE Hall of Famer" Andre The Giant, what it was like traveling with him and much more!
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Haku is so humble. He clearly did 95% of the work in those matches as Andre's body could not do much during that time. But the matches and bumps Haku took speak for themselves.
He did 95% of the work and got 0% of the glory, especially when they dropped the tag championships to Demolition at Mania 6. Very humble of him indeed.
12/89 MSG might be the most fun Andre has during a match in his heel run. He even struts around the ring until acting shocked Haku is down when he turns around.
Haku is legit tough. I've never heard any wrestlers badmouth him.great man. Hof now!
Haku for the HOF!
Haku is the Man !!! Great stories with Andre. #Haku 2020 WWE HOF !!!!!!
The Islanders were no joke, my favorite as a child.
Great and underrated tag team was very impressed with them at survivor series 1988 wrestling such a long match and they still had a ton of energy at the end!
@@oriondx72 Since you know wrestling I'm pretty sure I saw old footage of them referring to Haku as Tama & Tama as Haku in at least a couple of matches. I think it might have been Gorilla Monsoon. Do you know if they switched names or maybe Monsoon was purposely doing that for effect to pretend to confuse them? Because the King Haku who continued to wrestle for a long time was referred to as Tama by Monsoon quite a bit I think.
@@oriondx72 1987 in 1988 haku was king in the twin tower team vs the mega powers team.
@@Officerufo1 Yes, Haku and Tama would switch names during the match so the Ref and fans didn't know who was legal and there wasn't anything anyone could do about it. Bobby Heenan would just laugh at the stupid humanoids and rack up the wins against George South & Cowboy Patel.
I wish the Islanders would have had a bigger program in the tag team scene. Even a brief transitional championship would have been nice. Such a huge untapped potential, what a shame.
Haku is great guy. always loved his skills
Haku is also a Legend
@Fluke haku or the colossal connection... .but no.. bella twins are more important?! SMH
HOF stopped meaning a damn thing when they inducted Drew Carey
@@ComicBookGuy420 WWE HOF never meant anything even before that its all WWE garbage that vince hand picks to make money.
@@DFA8117 It used to mean something
And then they inducted an actor before guys like Savage Bigelow and Piper
As a wrestler maybe not so much. But as a person his legend rings out, nobody wanted to mess with him (or at least those that knew him, because there were plenty of unfortunate idiots who did mess with him). He was top of the food chain in terms of toughness
I'm 6'1" 255 lbs, and I feel squashed in those airplane seats. I can't imagine what it must have been like for Andre.
He probably had to purchase two tickets and have one asscheek in each seat.
Fat
To say nothing of using that tiny restroom. But somehow he managed.
Doc Malthus I don’t think he ever managed, he would have to go before the flight and just endure it while flying, at best make a bucket arrangement and heavily compensate the crew for the mess. Even in hotels they had to make special arrangements
@@MrSheckstr One of the wrestlers he flew with said he managed. Big Show too.
The Colossal Connection vs Demolition. I liked en both as a kid I didn't know who to root for when they faced off.
Demolition, even just for the act that their music was so cool
Wow, so much respect for Haku. Didn't want to give away to the press what he witnessed.
Haku is a damn beast !! 😈
I had the privilege of watching Haku and Andre vs Demolition live at Wrestlemania 6.
I was 14 and I literally almost got my father and I kicked out for going after a gut throwing shit and them of their way into the ring...one security guy saw who threw it and came at got the guy and he got booted, the guy was screaming "I can't believe you're kicking me out.." Security guy with the line of the night "I can feed you to the Giant and he's the nicer of the two of them "!!!
One thing about Haku I really respect is that on these shoot videos he never talks bad about the other wrestlers.
Haku was super tough..
Haku is also a legend in wrestling.
haku seems like a cool dude.
Yeah, very humble, laid back guy. Also if that is you in your profile pic, you are very pretty 😍
Luke Baer lol this fool
Many wrestlers say he is very nice and repectful,until you piss him off then watch the hell out.
Such a cool and humble man
I gotta respect Haku.
Hard working honest man.
The Islanders were legit. They were a great team.
Haku was cool until he got either too drunk or if u accidentally made him mad, then he was straight up dangerous to the point you'd need a gun...
You shoot him, shoot to kill cause if you injured him, he'd be even more dangerous
I remember this guy growing up. Haku/Meng. The king!
I always imagined him beating my father up.
My father would beat my mother and us kids a lot. Hotel to hotel. The stalking.threats.blood.machete.
I hated him so bad, Haku was the toughest guy I had in my mind for the longest.
This is going to sound stupid AF but when I was a kid, i wanted a dad like him/or just him. Sorry.
Don't apologize for wanting a good dad. Just follow Haku's example, and be a better dad, yourself.
Sorry you went through all of that man. I went through some of that. Not easy. Hope you're doing okay now.
Nothing to sorry about. Hope you are doing well.
Imagine going up against Haku and Andre in a barfight. The duo from hell.
One of a handful of Wrestlers who are Universally Known by Fans All over The World.....Japan....Germany.....UK......Australia......and of course America
Could you imagine Haku and Andre strolling into a bar in a bad mood!!?&?!@&/“?,.;:. Especially if you owned it
All the wrestlers that had worked with haku said that he was the sweetest man on earth
I like that little laugh at 1:38!
Hakuna and Tama one of the best tag teams the islanders ...
Hakuna and Tama...Team No Worries
When Haku says it, you know it's legit.
I wish Andre would of learned how to do a perfect moonsault! It would of been awesome!!!
I would hate to have tried to keep up drinking with Andre
The Colossal Connection. I thought they were a scary team when I waz a kid.
I think that Brock would have a hard time with Haku .
Brock would beat his ass
@@Takemura77 in a fight no rules Haku wins
@@BBBYpsi Fuck no
Haku would kill Brock within 33 seconds just like Kevin Sullivan said. Even Konnan guaranteed that Haku would kill Brock.
@@Takemura77 moron
How can someone interview this man and not be shaking in fear?
I think Haku is too much of a gentleman to threaten a woman lol
I shake in fear in some of his other interviews when he says no
And he says it in such a calm nice demeanour
Yet I get terrified
The Brain told the story about how somebody pissed off Haku and he grabbed the guy by the mouth and pulled out his bottom teeth!
crock of crap
Love this guy!! So humble but don't get on his bad side. Lights out permanently.
Haku scares the living s*** out of me aew needs to sign him and his sons
Colossal Connection should have had a longer reign, awesome team and finisher!
This guy is probably an accountant. He could use a self defense course to build up his confidence
Famous stories out there about Haku
some of them are probably even true
Haku is the man, and the Barbarían, as a kid I thought Barbarian was a great heel, he was scary and could work, and Haku could work to remember him starting as the Islanders, they were kinda highfliers.
How does anyone beat andre and haiku, what a team
lyle swavel simple no one does lol
Haku, one of the true toughest bastards in wrestling!
Two dudes I would never want to pick a fight with
Why is "this girl" interviewing him?
Haku needs to be at the Hall of Fame
I think you should write a tell all book with a ghost writer on the fights crazy encounters famous people you've worked with and come across in your travels and call it tales from the baddest man alive and push it on wwe and busted open etc rather than just giving the quick versions of the stories. The wrestling fans would buy it. Maybe it could sell as a screenplay....talk to your nephew on who he used. The stories with your relatives in wrestling, Andre, the fights would fill a book themselves I bet.
Hail King Haku!
How is the bella twins in the hall of fame before Haku. Doesn't mean you're both pregnant doesn't mean it's time to be in the hall of fame but I have nothing against them I just don't think it's their time yet.
Well I think Johnny Ace is married to their mother and he has a good position with WWE that might have more than a little something to do with it.
@@antwilder WWE gives the Bellas almost sole credit for starting the "women's revolution". And they gave Nikki Bella the longest reign with the Divas belt to erase AJ Lee from having that record.
There are literally 100’s of past wrestlers who deserve it more
Getting ready for tomorrow u
I want to listen to this story.....but all that goes thru my head is "this man grabbed another mans head, bit his nose off...and then spit it back in the guys face".
His sons, I can see but he's happy doing what he does now.
How long would it take for haku to beat up goldberg
Haku is one dude I wouldn't wanna fight
Ya was Andre the giant a big eater ??? Hmmm I just don’t know
what happend with the islanders why did they split ?
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Haku looks diffrent
Then what? 40 years ago? lol
In hotels, the toilets was so small Andre used to shit in the tub. Did he carry around bleach?
If you watch. Some of andres tag matches at the end of his wrestling career. He barely could stand….. his partner did all the work. Andre barely could do anything.
andre was the draw and who people paid to see
666th LIKE.
Pretty sure Meng is..
Fine I'll tell stories..pay me...
so I can eat my yogurt and goto bed.
Also interviewer asking dumbest questions. 👎
Such a nice man...that will rip your fucking eye out of socket.