There have been countless more popular finishers throughout history, but few quite as dominant as Yokozuna's Banzai Drop. It was simple, intuitive, visually devastating, and had a kick-out rate of exactly zero. The man weighed nearly 600 pounds, 80 percent of which was in his thighs and backside, which saw countless opponents momentarily swallowed up in a sea of red spandex while gravity proceeded to take out its failed marriage to quantum mechanics on the human anatomy. Unlike most of this list, this move might actually work too well in real life. Assuming a vertical drop on a prone opponent from a height of approximately one metric billiard table, a man of average build would probably break some ribs, and potentially cause some internal damage. Most people couldn't fight through this. But If you were a 600-pound man (or woman, who knows?) with the mobility to truly reproduce the Banzai Drop, you would be a murderer the moment your feet left the floor. In fact, a potential mass murderer if you performed it in the upstairs bar. Trying to realistically depict this move would have turned the WWF into a Saturday afternoon horror show, which is why Yoko (almost) always landed feet first. At such explosive levels of compression, the human body takes on certain tensile characteristics of the North American water balloon. Speaking of explosive, there's a term which I will leave those of you to Google who are unfamiliar, that term is "total prolapse". Enjoy!
CKUT radio host, underground lyricist, Michael Myers scholar and all-around world-class opiner. Signature move: Irony Bomb. Blood type: chai. Never seen in the same place and time as Logic Johnson, former featured columnist for Bleacher Report.
Hopelessly unfamiliar with Yellow Submarine.
