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Arn Anderson Talks El Gigante, Ric Flair Angering Gigante Once

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Arn Anderson is working his way through his wrestling career as part of his ARN podcast. In a recent episode, The Enforcer was asked about Jorge Gonzalez, the former wrestler known as El Gigante. Anderson spoke honestly about why Gigante didn’t have the best run in WCW.

You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:

Whether Gonzalez was meant for pro wrestling: “I hate to speak ill of the dead, I really do. I’m sure there is something that God put that big fella on the Earth to do… wrestling wasn’t it. This is not easy to do at all; it certainly it is not easy to do well. And it certainly is not easy to excel if you’re not meant to be in it. [Jorge] was not meant to be in this business. He was just like a deer in headlights. He was just frozen.”

Gigante towering over Sid Vicious: “I’m sure that what everyone was counting on was when Sid [Vicious] was right beside him [El Gigante], you saw the size of the guy. It’s the one time you saw the guy and thought, ‘well, damn. Vicious is a monster. He is a big dude.’ Just wish that was enough. Our fans deserve more than that.”

On Gigante not being able to bump: “He probably would’ve needed more time at the school [WCW Powerplant]. Just so you can at least put a few things together for him. Here’s something we never even addressed; forget about the fact that his offense was very weak ’cause he just didn’t know. He couldn’t fall down! So he can’t fall down, his offense looks like s**t, what does that leave us? I guess just powerwalk up on him and stick my nose in his belly button? Get some ha-ha out of it or something, I wish I’d have been smart enough to consider some stuff.”

What kind of training Gigante had: “They probably taught him to do a clothesline, obviously the claw and the big hammer across the back. Which you always tell what a guy’s got in his toolbelt when he starts repeating himself. If he does something more than once, pretty good chance that’s about all he’s got. Now you go back to the school. Buddy Lee Parker’s a good trainer, great trainer. But if you can’t bump a guy down, and this guy can’t drop something on you…? What if he could just drop a big elbow on you? You can’t trust him to do that. Would probably hurt you, would probably hurt himself. Knock his hip out and kill the guy that he landed on!”

On feeling Gigante’s wrath one night when Ric Flair angered him in a match: “It’s hard to train a guy that’s that big and that heavy, because the one thing is [Jorge] still had bigger than normal, larger than human life strength. He clotheslined me one night, I know. When he got mad, he could certainly clean your clock. We were in Philadelphia, it was a six-man or something. [Ric] Flair came in with the big man and did whatever he could do, and [Ric] finally got behind Jorge and he chopped him right between the shoulder blades. Pretty good one, it cracked. But then Flair, in his infinite wisdom, came over and tagged me. Now, not knowing that Jorge was steaming, I step in. I was going to give him a couple big shots in the chest with a forearm. Brother, he just accelerated and he clotheslined me; I swear I thought I broke my neck again!”

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