10 Wrestlers You Were Too Embarrassed To Admit You Loved
7. Yokozuna
WWE recently uploaded a 1993 pre-Survivor Series special in which Yokozuna defends his World Heavyweight Championship against Bret Hart, and it's required viewing for anybody that wants to gain an understanding of exactly what Vince McMahon believed he had at the time.
Yoko started life at a kayfabe 505lbs in 1992 and was allegedly over 700 by the time he wrestled for WWE on television for the final time in 1996, but he almost never let his gargantuan size slow him down.
The man runs - literally runs - across the ring for one of his set-up moves ahead of the believably-devastating Banzai Drop, and in the aforementioned clash with 'The Hitman' leaps back into the ring to avoid the count-out with all the vim and vigor of a New Japan babyface at 19. Ultimate Warrior, Batista and others half his size (and theoretically in better shape) got blown up by less.
The commentators always put over his immense skill as well as size, but wrestling announcers aren't always the most trustworthy. Who even cares if Big Show's fist was as big as a typewriter, even when it blatantly wasn't? Everything they said about Yokozuna's phenomenal athleticism was astonishingly true, even if his matches were bogged down by required rest spots.