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'''''[[CatchPhrase "BANZAI!"]]'''''
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* AwesomeButImpractical: The aforementioned Banzai Drop. Was every bit as final as you'd expect from a 600-pound giant crashing down onto someone butt-first. However, the slow, specific setup meant that he had to wear them down into outright immobility before he could even attempt it.
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* AwesomeButImpractical: The aforementioned Banzai Drop. Was every Every bit as final as you'd expect from a 600-pound giant crashing down onto someone butt-first. However, 600-pounder falling on someone; but the slow, specific setup meant that he had to wear beat them down into outright immobility before he could even attempt it.first.
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* DoesNotLikeShoes: He would wear flip-flops to the ring, only to remove them before his match. He did, however, tape his ankles quite thoroughly.
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* DownerEnding: His death in 2000 at the ''tragically'' young age of only 34 from a pulmonary edema.
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* OohMeAccentsSlipping: On the rare moments he spoke more than a couple sentences, he'd struggle to maintain a Japanese accent.
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[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yokozuna_(wrestler) The Other Wiki]] has a good writeup about his life and career.
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** [[WrestlingMonster Monster Heel]]: Yokozuna dethroned a rising star in Bret Hart, who seemed to be leading the New Generation into the future as a fighting champion. And then, to demonstrate that it didn't matter which era a challenger came from, he destroyed Hulk Hogan in front of thousands of young children. All of whom are still, to this day, traumatized.
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** [[WrestlingMonster Monster Heel]]: Yokozuna dethroned a rising star in Bret Hart, who seemed to be leading the New Generation into the future as a fighting champion. And then, to demonstrate that it didn't matter which era a challenger came from, he destroyed Hulk Hogan in front of thousands of young children. All of whom are still, to this day, traumatized. To top it all off, this would be Hogan's final WWF appearance for nine years.
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* BigEater: If Wrestling/BrucePrichard's account is anything to go by, Yoko had a fondness for food, a major factor in his gaining more and more weight. According to Prichard, Yoko once attended a party thrown by the Undertaker, who fried about a dozen turkey tails for him; Yoko devoured between 40 and 50 turkey butts dipped in mayonnaise. On another occasion, Yokozuna, while shooting a segment for Coliseum Video at a Japanese steakhouse, devoured enough food to serve twelve people.
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* BigEater: If Wrestling/BrucePrichard's account is anything to go by, Yoko had a fondness for food, a major factor in his gaining more and more weight. According to Prichard, Yoko once attended a party thrown by the Undertaker, who fried about a dozen turkey tails for him; Yoko devoured between 40 and 50 turkey butts dipped in mayonnaise. On another occasion, Yokozuna, while shooting a segment for Coliseum Video at a Japanese steakhouse, devoured consumed enough food to serve twelve people.
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* BigEater: If Wrestling/BrucePrichard's account is anything to go by, Yoko had a fondness for food, a major factor in his gaining more and more weight.
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* BigEater: If Wrestling/BrucePrichard's account is anything to go by, Yoko had a fondness for food, a major factor in his gaining more and more weight. According to Prichard, Yoko once attended a party thrown by the Undertaker, who fried about a dozen turkey tails for him; Yoko devoured between 40 and 50 turkey butts dipped in mayonnaise. On another occasion, Yokozuna, while shooting a segment for Coliseum Video at a Japanese steakhouse, devoured enough food to serve twelve people.
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* BigEater: If Wrestling/BrucePrichard's account is anything to go by, Yoko had a fondness for food, a major factor in his gaining more and more weight.
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* ArchEnemy: Wrestling/HulkHogan, Wrestling/TheUndertaker, Vader
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* GentleGiant: The 2021 WWE Network documentary shows that he was this. Nobody had a bad word to say about him, and nobody has on podcasts or shoot interviews in the intervening years. Nearly everyone was in tears or near them (including The Undertaker) when they reflected on Rodney's kindness, generosity, and untimely death. When Jim Cornette and Bruce Prichard don't have a bad word to say about you, you have to be well liked.
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** Ultimately what killed him, sadly. Wrestling/JimCornette and Wrestling/BrucePrichard have both said that Yoko was over 800 pounds at the last weigh-in they witnessed, two years before his death in 2000.
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** [[WrestlingMonster Monster Heel]]: Yokozuna dethroned a rising star in Bret Hart, who seemed to be leading the New Generation into the future as a fighting champion. And then, to demonstrate that it didn't matter which era a challenger came from, he literally murdered Hulk Hogan in front of thousands of young children. All of whom are still, to this day, traumatized.
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** [[WrestlingMonster Monster Heel]]: Yokozuna dethroned a rising star in Bret Hart, who seemed to be leading the New Generation into the future as a fighting champion. And then, to demonstrate that it didn't matter which era a challenger came from, he literally murdered destroyed Hulk Hogan in front of thousands of young children. All of whom are still, to this day, traumatized.
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* WildSamoan: {{Averted}} in WWE. While he was sometimes billed from "The Polynesian Islands", he was portrayed as a sumo champion and identified almost entirely with Japan and Japanese culture. His [[Wrestling/TheWildSamoans uncles]] are the Trope Namers, though.
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* WildSamoan: {{Averted}} in WWE. While he was sometimes billed from "The Polynesian Islands", he was portrayed as a sumo champion and identified almost entirely with Japan and Japanese culture. His [[Wrestling/TheWildSamoans uncles]] are the Trope Namers, though.though, and his relationship to the Wrestling/SamoanDynasty was reconciled with his Yokozuna persona after his death.
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* TheGiant: A rare weight-only example, as he was pretty short, but had bulk to compensate.
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* TheGiant: A rare weight-only example, as he was pretty short, though above average height at 6'4, its not a height that screams giant, but had bulk to compensate.
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* {{Irony}}: Yokozuna was booked in an actual sumo match against [[Wrestling/JohnTenta Earthquake]] on RAW in 1994. Despite being named after ''the highest actual rank in sumo,'' Yoko was not only not a real sumo wrestler, [he wasn't even Japanese, while despite being white, John Tenta ''had'' actually had a very successful professional career as a genuine sumo wrestler during his time in Japan, including 3 championships. Earthquake actually won (possibly because not even WWF would have been rude enough to have a fake sumo wrestler beat a ''real'' sumo wrestler at sumo).
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* {{Irony}}: Yokozuna was booked in an actual sumo match against [[Wrestling/JohnTenta Earthquake]] on RAW in 1994. Despite being named after ''the highest actual rank in sumo,'' Yoko was not only not a real sumo wrestler, [he he wasn't even Japanese, while despite being white, John Tenta ''had'' actually had a very successful professional career as a genuine sumo wrestler during his time in Japan, including 3 championships. Earthquake actually won (possibly because not even WWF would have been rude enough to have a fake sumo wrestler beat a ''real'' sumo wrestler at sumo).
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** There were occasions where Yoko would slip or otherwise not quite come down as gently as he normally would on some poor jobber (you can find several of these instances on Youtube). Those instances are absolutely frightening to watch.
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** The feud they were set up to have ended prematurely when Tenta went to WCW (a move he later stated he regretted).