Jim Cornette Reviews A&E's Yokozuna Biography 

*Yoko.

Ask the jobbers he squashed 4real

your mama is based as hell

Jesus lmao

As a kid I hated him. He definitely did his job as a heel. What a talent.

It was amazing how fast he was when he first came in wwf

Bret always said Yoko would sit at a bar, stirring the same jack and diet coke, missing his family. If you best friends with Taker, you got to be nice and tough lol

His leg drop should have been grounds for prosecution for attempted murder.

Exactly the look they wanted. It was perfect his moveset looked like he killed crushed them.

His spinning heel kick was a thing of beauty

Oh bullshit

Bundy didn't scare me so much after seeing him on married with children lol

WCW era Vader... one of the most terrifying big men. Criminally under used in WWE.

especially when he was droppin on a jobber....yikes

Yoko simply going over to the turnbuckles and stepping one foot over the bottom rope for support to get to the second rope got the crowd reacting. It was awesome!

Bret said it taking the Banzai Drop felt like a giant pillow falls onto you and didn't hurt at all.

Kinda reminds me of an episode of Hey Arnold where the fat kid, Harold, went on a weight loss cruise and came back much larger.

The Movie Heavyweights

I remember that episode😅

A moment made better by the amused frustration in Monsoon’s voice, “Pinfalls don’t count!”

Nah. If Savage was green as grass that might fly, but how many battle royals (royales?) had he been in at that point? I mean, wasn't he the last guy to get eliminated the year before?

Savage also vaulted himself out in 92 to chase Roberts through habit of how he left the ring. They let him back in claiming you can't eliminate yourself even though Andre did it before

Savage often forgot the rules as part of the ‘madness’ on adrenaline so i guess he just wanted to put over Yokozuna being strong and didn’t think going for the cover would be unbelievable for his character.

​@@Cruising_On_Lake_Havasoma I see your point. However, how many top rope elbow drops had Savage delivered in a battle royal/Royal Rumble match? I'd venture to say you can count them on one finger. I say this only because this was back when wrestlers had logic and used strategy. Unlike today where those 2 words are deader than... Well, Savage (rip). To come off the top was viewed as risky and inane. Unless, as someone in this comment section mentioned, your character is built on Madness, and you know in order to beat Yokozuna you must come out guns blazing. No holding back. You must go... for the gusto. You see, Savage had spent the past few months as a color commentator. He watched as the erstwhile Kokina Maximus decimated his opponents. Carving a swath of scarred superstars w/out breaking a sweat. And So, thinks to himself "Thats how I can beat him. I'm gonna make him move, I'm gonna get him off kilter, I'm gonna make Yokozuna work... That will work for me, Brother." Once the Royal Rumble boils down to Savage and Yokozuna there's a snafu. Macho Man realizes Yoko's got excellent movement and plenty of gas in the tank. This is when the MADNESS overtakes Savage. So, Savage snaps like some sort of beef jerky stick, goes full bore, and uses everything in his arsenal to try and thwart this unbeatable behemoth. While in the midst of a blitzkrieg of feet and fist, Savage gets lost in the moment. He works himself into a frenzy, so much so his psyche splits. He's on autopilot yet discombobulated. He's so confused he doesn't know if Tuesdays come in twos or once a week. All he knows is that it's Kamikaze time. He might not live, but neither will this jap. Then, a cacophony of sounds (redundant?) BOOM, BANG, SPLAT, AND SMACK... The fat japs on his back. Savage is stunned yet spent. He swiftly realizes he must capitalize. But how? W/ what? Savage takes a deep breath and peers out at the crowd. Then reflexively, out of battle tested behavior he pulls the slide back to find one round cocooned in the chamber. Savage climbs to the top rope and the rest is history. Thats my theory/opinion. Or I'm a retarded phaggot and you along w/ the majority of people are correct in thinking it was a nonsensical spot. And you know what? I'm okay w/ the latter being the widely accepted opinion.

Neither guy was a jobber, of course. Yoko fucked up almost every jobber he came into contact with with that move.

I used to love Bruce’s show. But Conrad and his adds turned me off. Every 4 mins.

"He gave me a check so that my kids would have heat". That line got me

Nobody is better than YOKO with Mr. Fuji & James E Cornette. Trifecta of awesomeness

cool

Yoko, "The Ultimate Uce"

Especially when they showed his grandson. You'd just know that Yoko would've been the lovable, fun grandpa to that kid.

Oh those were classic I loved his facials when he would get scared with the casket

@@aliciasimmons8473 Same here. He was so “evil” to me, that finally seeing someone shake him finally felt satisfying 😂. I wish I could watch this documentary about Yokozuna.

Good fucking times, Yoko Vs Bret at Wrestlemania 10 was also a classic

To this day nobody selled the fear of being in the ring with the Undertaker better then Yoko. Before there was Mick Foley, it was him who elevated The Undertaker charakter to the next level.

That would have been something

Imagine if he lost the weight he needed to get healthy, and made a comeback in the WWF during the attitude era with that gimmick! The storylines, matches, and feuds we could have seen at that time....Stonecold Steve Austin, the Rock, Mankind, HHH, Kane, Rikishi, and rekindling the feud with the Undertaker, but as the American Badass! That would have been some amazing stuff!

Would have love to see him with sunglasses and leather jacket as part of the Hart Foundation like it was originally planned.

It was actually Konnan who was proposing that. According to him a Yoko had been going back and forth with Bischoff, one day Scott hall got him on the phone and came off too pushy so Yoko backed out.

I love when he'd squash two guys in a handicap match, stack them on top of each other, then Bonzai Drop both of them at once at pin them. Wasn't a legal pin but the ref still counted because fuck it, not like the jobbers were getting back up anyway.

​@@Cruising_On_Lake_Havasoma lol ! That made my day. I needed a good laugh 😂 .

The banzai drop is one of the most painful looking finishers of all time.

I thought the same thing too when I was a kid but just goes to show you how safe the guy was I mean if he was off the guy taking it would of been gone dam shame he's gone only 34 R.I.P Yokozuna

@@Cruising_On_Lake_Havasoma as a kid I'd see him squash a jobber and think "why even accept the match?"

Saaame!!!

My uncle was a mark until about the mid 90's and would always tell me how it was fake, Vince was the owner and Yokozuna was actually Samoan.

I really thought he was Japanese as well, double shock to learn that Mr Fuji was Hawaiian lol

​@@ActionJacksonForever He was mixed race, Japanese and Hawaiian.

Even Back in the 90s, the German commentators announced Yoko always as "Polynesian representing Japan".

they were the most underrated wrestling team. But the tag roster in 95 was so bad otherwise, that nobody remembers the matches.

Yeah his weight took off near his death there’s footage of him in the UK just days before his death and it’s mind blowing I have no idea how he could walk much less wrestle

@@wombatgirl997 same, the real life assholes are good guys but the heels are the everyday joe you wanna get a beer with. Interesting how that works out in wrestling sometimes

same. I never went to any WWF/WWE live events because of The Undertaker. Still have only ever gone to one live event and that was in 2018. I still have a bunch of pics of Charlotte, Becky (pre The Man), and Liv among others. Carmella (with MITB case), Naomi, Natalya, Lana, Ruby Riott, and Sarah Logan were in that match, too (Riot Squad was still a thing back then). It was 3v3v3 and it sucked. Loved getting to see Becky and Liv though.

@@gothard5 Bruh, get a girlfriend, lol

Don't forget Master Fuji

​@@andrewjolley143 and Fuji also

There's more than one royal family...

​@@huskerfanman Adrenaline in my soul

I wish von erichs are still in the main stream.

​@Kingston Yeah because not a lot of people watch MLW

Samoa Joe isn't related to them. Which should've been used as a storyline.

How is that even possible?

@@iamcasihartthey said he was dipping fried food in mayo. That’s how

@@TonyDanza4Lyfeor more like they were fibbing about his weight like they like to do lol

I know this is almost a year later-but darkside just did a show on one of them

And Yokozuna is his middle name.

Thanks, I don't have to repeat - I heard the same thing, Hogan wanted Yoko in just to get his win back.

Who would he be in WCW I wonder cause he wouldn't be Yoko.

Like he did with Warrior

​@@cujosephwalker9707 maybe he would've shocked the world in WCW 😂

​@@cujosephwalker9707 kokina

I'd love to hammer some beers with Greg the hammer

He spoke English in the WWF a couple times, when he turned face at the end of 95 he cuts a promo on Cornette in English, and does a pretty decent job. Made me wonder why they never let him talk.

Don’t forget that Mr Fuji is really Hawaiian 😂😂

@@ActionJacksonForever ain't no way

@@uc95nu51 look it up lol

Sorry really ffs lol ​@@ActionJacksonForever

Those Samoans are built different. I agree. I loved Yoko growing up. His belly to belly suplex was insane.

Asia-Pacific islanders have shared heritage, A lot of Japanese people immigrated to Hawaii. If you look closely you will see a lot of Hawaiians with Japanese sounding names.

@@TihetrisWeathersby My mom is from 60s Hawaii and growing up she never said "Rock, Paper, Scissors" she said "Junk And Po" which was like a local Hawaiian derivative of the Japanese "Janken Pon". Tons of Japanese influence in Hawaii.

​@Anto Skum Yes definitely, It's a big part of the culture

It was never actually said he was Japanese born and bred. He (his character) was a Yokozuna, which is a sumo rank. You don't have to be Japanese to attain it. In his early WWF matches, he's even announced as from the "Polynesian Islands". He was a Japanese sympathiser via Mr Fuji. From a kayfabe point of view, you could argue that he adopted the culture while living in Japan competing in sumo. A lot of people like to point this out as if his gimmick doesn't work because he's not Japanese, but it works perfectly.

@@anonymousnobody326 Also the first ever non-Japanese sumo wrestler reached yokozuna in 1993, Akebono (real name: Chadwick Rowan from Hawai'i).

He was very agile. He had a heck of a superkick and a awesome looking belly to belly suplex.

Dude why do you hate hogan so much, he’s a legend in the sport of professional wrestling

Yoko was inducted in the Hall of Fame back in 2012. Much deserved IMO. Loved Yokozuna so much. A true legend that is still missed to this day.

@@MrDCWood Im glad to hear that he was IMMORTALIZED in the history books.🙏✌