10 Most Heavily Protected Wrestling Finishers Ever
7. Banzai Drop (Yokozuna)
It was an easy move to protect, Yokozuna's Banzai Drop, because who could believably kick out of a man who once tipped the scales at close to 600lbs sitting square on their chest?
But even in Yoko's lighter days, the Banzai was devastating. The former WWE Champion would scale the turnbuckles ominously and often bounce a couple of times for extra spring, before leaping off backwards, his entire bodyweight crashing down upon the opponent's ribcage. As beautifully simple as it was brutally devastating, it would have required a Herculean effort to escape from.
Nothing about the Banzai Drop was contrived. It could believably flatten you. In fact, there were times when it looked like Yoko was legitimately flattening people. It's a good job, then, that several wrestlers, including Bret Hart, have gone on the record to call the big man one of the safest workers they'd ever wrestled, with Yoko's feet taking the brunt of the Banzai Drop's impact.
Nobody ever kicked out of the Banzai in the then-WWF. Not even Hulk Hogan, who was stretchered out of the arena after taking it following his and Yoko's King of the Ring 1993 match.