Andre the Giant would drink 6 bottles of wine before getting in the ring

At 7-foot-4 and 520 pounds, it took a lot of alcohol to help Andre the Giant take the edge off.

Retired professional wrestler Floyd Gerald Brisco shared some legendary stories about the late icon in an interview with Paul Guzzo of the Tampa Bay Times, including how many bottles of wine he drank before matches.

"Andre used to ask me to get him six bottles of Mateus wine and ice them down," Brisco, who spent more than four decades in the wrestling industry, said. "He would drink those before we went to the ring and no one could tell."

Brisco also recalled the time Andre downed a couple packs of beer while they were on the road together.

"One night in Sarasota, Andre is traveling with us. So we pull over and get two cases of tall boys," he said. "By the time we get from Sarasota to the Tahitian Inn on Dale Mabry, the two cases were bone dry."

Andre the Giant died in 1993 at the age of 46 of congestive heart failure.