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What a legacy Yokozuna had. The surprisingly agile sumo master became the WWF champion after only 173 days, held the title twice, and won his first Royal Rumble. His achievements are more ...
On that night, his weight became the centerpiece of his match. With Austin prone, the perfect victim for the Banzai Drop, Yokozuna climbed the ropes—then broke them, with his weight too much for ...
Debuting with WWE in fall 1992, Yokozuna exploded on the scene with the brute force of a Banzai Drop, marking the beginning of an abbreviated yet sensational career. Hailing from the same ...
Yokozuna battled the goober on the 3 January 1994-aired Raw and completely annihilated him with the stiffest Banzai Drop this side of an Eddie Kingston/Tomohiro Ishii headbutt-fest. Ominously ...
In the contract signing segment, Yokozuna took out Hart and delivered a Banzai drop, the signature move of Yokozuna. Bret began the match by attacking Yokozuna with a sequence of blows aimed at ...
Just when the momentum seemed to be shifting, Yokozuna delivered a Belly to Belly Suplex and followed it up with a Banzai drop from the second rope on Billy. Bret Hart competed against Bob Backlun ...
While Duggan gave the match his best shot, Yokozuna still bested him, but unfortunately, his "Banzai Drop" finisher gave Duggan a few cracked ribs. Despite this, the veteran claimed he wasn't out ...
“Banzai!” That was the last word many of WWE’s top Superstars heard when they faced the imposing Yokozuna. Standing 6’4” and weighing nearly 600 pounds, the Japanese sumo wrestler squash ...
Hart noted that a lot of the wrestlers got sick during the trip and when Yokozuna climbed to the second rope to deliver the Banzai drop, "he looked like he had fallen in a plate of pea soup." ...