Larry Zbyszko also recalled heading back to the hotel later that night where Andre and himself joined a few other wrestlers for a game of poker. Andre had planned to get his revenge for the prank Zbyszko pulled earlier in the ring when Zbyszko was heading to the bathroom.

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“All I had on was my underwear and I was walking by where the boys were in the room to go to the bathroom, and when I got there, Andre grabbed me, opened the door, and shoved me out in the hallway,” recalled Zbyszko. “And I tried to fight it but he grabbed me by the underwear and pulled it off and now he locks the door. And I can hear them all laughing in there and I’m standing there out in the hallway going, ‘Oh my god, I’m out in the hallway at the holiday naked, open up you b*****ds.’ They were laughing their butts off and no one was gonna go against what Andre did. But that was his revenge for me ribbing him.”

Zbyszko continued to explain that after Andre left him naked out in the hallway of the Holiday Inn he never attempted to mess with Andre ever again, but maintained their friendship.

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