This match took place in February 12th 1984, was booked by Universal Wrestling Association at el Toreo de Cuatro Caminos, the place to watch awesome lucha libre in the eighties.
This wasn't the first time these two faced each other. They wrestled a few times before in Japan, along with Antonio Inoki and Hulk Hogan.
Anyway, that night Canek had to defend the UWA Heavyweight Championship against the French Giant. For what I saw from the ten minute edited video I found, Canek never backed down, he was very aggressive against Andre, which kind made Andre go really angry, using the wooden boards that surrounded the ring against Canek, tearing his mask and finally losing the match when he fouled Canek.
Even though he won and retained his title, Canek wasn't happy either. This is when he body slammed Andre for the second time.
That night Canek joined the list of eleven men that all by themselves, body slammed Andre The Giant. And along with Hulk Hogan, Antonio Inoki and The Ultimate Warrior, Canek Body slammed Andre more than once.
It would be awesome if I could've found the full match, but all I managed to find was this ten minute version, better than nothing I guess.
This is all for this week, I'll see you next week.
Francisco Arreola
@fcoarreola
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