10 Bizarre WWE Scenes You Totally Don’t Remember
3. Yoko's Christmas Miracle
Yokozuna was a cruel and antagonistic heel for the bulk of his WWE run, but there was once a time the ginormous Samoan-turned-Japanese oppressor and his "devious" manager Mr Fuji instead made childhood dreams come true for New York city children.
He should have celebrating 1993's festive period as WWE Champion, but the audience was suddenly transported inside his nightmare as a nice guy for the benefit of the turgid "UN-BELIEVE-ABLE" campaign the company ran just ahead of coining a the "New Generation" slogan that defined the era.
Bizarrely, Yoko looked the part as jolly St Nicholas instead of the Anti-American grinch he was ordinarily cast as. Something about his cheery disposition foreshadowed a character shift that never came - by the time he did turn babyface in 1996, he was cast as a hard-talking no-nonsense brawler that had half the talent thanks to carrying nearly double the weight.
Sans Santa suit, this version could have been an interesting prospect against some of the company's decent heels, but Yoko ever being in this sort of shape again after his major run was regrettably a Christmas wish too far.