10 Most Protected WWE Finishing Moves Ever
2. Banzai Drop - Yokozuna
It didn't need protecting, the Banzai Drop, because it protected itself.
It was quite literally a case of a man who once weighed 600+ pounds descending from a few feet in the air to sit upon your chest with all of his weight behind. Nobody escaped a pinfall after Yokozuna sat on them, not because WWE forbade it, but because nobody physically could. Not even Hulk Hogan could, though you can guarantee he would lift his shoulder at the count of three.
Though the move itself didn't need protection, Yokozuna's opponents did. Unsurprisingly, having a man of his size sit on you isn't fun, so Yoko would regularly plant his feet on the mat as he came off the second turnbuckle, softening the blow for the victim below - unless you're Dan Dubiel.
Yokozuna battled the goober on the 3 January 1994-aired Raw and completely annihilated him with the stiffest Banzai Drop this side of an Eddie Kingston/Tomohiro Ishii headbutt-fest. Ominously departing the turnbuckles as he normally did, there was no planting of the feet. Instead, Yokozuna came down ar*e first across Dubiel's chest, flattening him with every pound of his weight.
Miraculously, Dubiel's chest wasn't caved in.