Ted DiBiase Recalls Teaming With Andre The Giant At WWE SummerSlam 1988

On the latest episode of the Everybody’s Got a Pod that covered WWE SummerSlam 1988, WWE Hall of Famer Ted DiBiase talked about teaming with Andre The Giant against Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage in the main event of that year’s SummerSlam. You can check out some highlights below:

On his SummerSlam match being the main event of MSG: “Absolutely, yeah [the spectacle made up for the smaller crowd]. Main event at Madison Square Garden, and it’s sold out. Doesn’t get any better than that. And there’s not too many people that can say that. I mean, there’s probably — I don’t know how many of a handful would be, but more than a handful of guys but not too much more. How many pro wrestlers can say, ‘I was the main event at Madison Square Garden?’”

Ted DiBiase on working with Andre The Giant coming out of SummerSlam: “Andre and I, we had matches going forward from there I think, even after that match where it was Andre and me against — it may not have been Hogan and Randy all the time, but it was Hogan and somebody.”

On him and Randy Savage carrying the SummerSlam match for Hulk Hogan and Andre The Giant: “You know, it’s kind of like the reason that me — I would say me and Randy, we carried the matches. Because look, it’s like, why was I tagged up with Andre? Because I was the guy going to be in the ring, making most of the action happen. Because Andre is Andre the Giant. And you ain’t going to see Andre hitting the ropes. It’s kind of like every time Andre wrestles, whoever gets in the ring with him, it’s like they’re bouncing off the ropes, trying to find a way to get him to his knees, right? So it was just, I knew that I had… in terms of my team, I carried the weight of it. That was what I knew going in. I mean, it couldn’t be any other way. Because now Andre is a heel. Before he was a babyface, and it was easy for him to work with heels that could try to get him to get down and do whatever. But now he’s a heel, how would it look for Andre the Giant to try to sell as a heel, and like fight to the corner to make the tag doesn’t work. No, it doesn’t work that way.”

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