Height comparison: Robert Wadlow vs Andre the Giant

Man...bet he raked during grey sweatpant SZN

I wonder if Andre the giant had a small ding a ling?

That pic shows more than a 19 inch difference.

This Photoshop isnt accurate based on the numbers.

Looks dumb with the relative size/girth altered

Manute Bol barely had to jump to dunk at 7’7.
Wadlow could probably just dunk running with no jump. That would look funny as shite.

The was a classic RAW. Wadlow gave Andre the Giant a Stone Cold stunner.

Robert Wadlow is from the same region my family is from. He's from Alton and my family had farms all around the area. My grandpa made brass for Olin/Winchester in East Alton before and after fighting in WWII.

Andre wasn’t 7’4”, at least by the time that picture was taken.

There’s a somewhat infamous picture of him, Wilt Chamberlain, and Arnold from the filming of Conan The Destroyer and Andre was clearly shorter than Wilt by a few inches.



Andre was a big motherfricker but a combination of his body breaking down by the 80s and wrestling puffery meant he was never that tall, just massive and billed as such.


Edit -

Andre and Wilt appear closer in height than I remember but Andre also appears to be closer to the camera to appear taller than he is.

Not sure how tall Andre was in real life. I decided to resize parts of the photo using 10 pixels per inch using both images assuming the 7' 4" Andre and here is what I get. The resizing is why the ropes are offset. Andre was at about the right pixels, I only had to moderately increase his height a few pixels, I had to shrink Wadlow a good bit