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The Undertaker says Andre the Giant had secret plans for a match together

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Andre the Giant apparently had big plans for a fight against The Undertaker that were never revealed - even to The Undertaker himself.

In a rare out-of-character interview with pastor Ed Young of Fellowship Church, The Undertaker revealed that the Eighth Wonder of the World would often hint at setting up a feud between them. However, Andre's health was in decline by the time The Undertaker joined the then-WWF, so the match never happened.

From The Undertaker's interview:

(Andre) liked me and you know, I guess we always think we have one (match) left in us. ... He was always the first guy in the locker room. He was always there. He loved to sit there and play cribbage before he'd go and I'd come in and say, "Hey Boss, how you doing today?" (Andre would say) "Good, one day kid, me and you. I have this idea." I was like, "Oh really? Tell me about it." And he'd never tell me.

A good friend of mine to this day, his name's Tim White, and he drove Andre around, he was one of the referees. I'd asked Tim all the time, "Did he ever tell you?" I'd ask, he would never tell me. He was old school, Andre, he didn't want anyone else to do it because he thought he was going to get to a point where he could get back in the ring and we could do this and have a really big deal.

So no one knows what it was. He ended up passing away and he never let me know. I wonder to this day, because man, I bet it was good.

Andre the Giant died on Jan. 23, 1993 at the age of 46 of congestive heart failure.

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