We all have that one heavyweight friend who proudly boasts about drinking us under the table, who treats drinking alcohol not as a mere social event, but as part of a decathlon. The one who puts all the red-faced featherweights to shame through Olympian feats of imbibation. Or at least, they think so, until they’re passed out on the floor from pushing too hard, too fast. Such contests of machismo, will, foolishness, whatever you call it, are not new at all. In fact, Alexander the Great once held a drinking competition to try and bring Greek and Persian cultures together, where all 41 contenders, including winner Promachus the soldier who drank 4 gallons of undiluted wine, died from alcohol poisoning, per Vintage News.

There was one person, though, who was truly capable of absurd, godly feats of alcohol consumption: wrestler and actor Andre the Giant. Born André René Roussimoff in Grenoble, France, the 7′ 4″, 520-pound titan not only gained notoriety for transforming his painful, somewhat debilitating condition of acromegaly (gigantism in children) into a world-renowned wrestling career in the WWF, and for his legendary turn in The Princess Bride (1987), but for being able to drink an absolutely shocking amount of alcohol. The more mundane of his feats includes drinking the entire stock of an airplane on one flight from Chicago to Japan, and drinking *only* five bottles of wine with dinner every night in order to slim down to a shiek 475 pounds, as reported by Thrillist.

Alcohol: a foe far more worthy than Hulk Hogan