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Here's Bad News Brown telling the Andre the Giant story -
Speaking of Andre -
The story is, this turned into a real fight because Andre wouldn't sell Maeda's moves. Andre was also told to embarrass Maeda in the ring and kick his ass because the staff thought Maeda was a jerk who needed his ass kicked.
Andre was drunk during this match. - That wasn't apart of the plan. Andre also went for Maeda's eyes, and drunk or not, Andre was a very big and very strong man who could seriously hurt someone, so when Maeda saw Andre was not only not selling for him, but was hurting him for real as well, Maeda defended himself. It's hard to believe a man that small (compared to Andre) could hold his own so well against a giant.
The reason why the match wasn't stopped was because the idea was for Andre to kick Maeda's ass, and the staff was waiting for it to happen, but because Andre was drunk, he was having trouble. Also - Perhaps Andre is not as tough as some people think. At least not against guys who know how to fight well.
Maeda was kicking Andre's knee until it turned bright red and took him down rather easily a few times. He turned to Kantaro Hoshino and asked if he could finish him off and Hoshino shook his head "no." Maeda was pissed and threw a kick at the guard rail instead.
So in regards of Maeda - Rather he is a jerk or not, a man twice his size started a legit fight with him and Maeda was only trying to protect himself, and not seriously hurt Andre all at the same time. No easy task!
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