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Post by The Brain on Feb 2, 2021 14:33:34 GMT -5
Watched the new Icons series on the Network last night with Yoko being the first covered and man it was a great near hour and a half. Nothing I didnt already know but it was great seeing his whole career covered plus rare footage of em behind the scenes.Definitely recommend it if you have the Network.
For his size man could he move around the ring. Loved his run as WWF champ in 93.His feuds with Bret and Taker plus his tag run with Owen will always be my fav from his career.
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Post by The Brain on Feb 2, 2021 14:35:22 GMT -5
PJ for some reason it created 2 threads. Delete the other one when you get a chance. Thanks brother.
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Post by PJ on Feb 2, 2021 14:37:34 GMT -5
Did it. But you do know you can delete your own posts? Click on the * looking icon In the upper right corner. Then select the delete option and type Delete into to box and hit the button to complete it.
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Post by J'Dinkalage Morgoone on Feb 2, 2021 14:38:27 GMT -5
the squash matches he did were so amazing, id still blows my mind how he could banzai drop guys without seriously hurting them, and also his agility was insane!
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Post by The Brain on Feb 2, 2021 14:38:59 GMT -5
Did it. But you do know you can delete your own posts? Yes.Did it a few times in my tenure here |
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Post by CM Tusk on Feb 2, 2021 15:06:17 GMT -5
Honestly one of my favorite all time heel champion reigns. He was so damn good. It’s crazy to think he wasn’t much older than I am now when he passed.
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Post by J'Dinkalage Morgoone on Feb 2, 2021 15:09:18 GMT -5
Honestly one of my favorite all time heel champion reigns. He was so damn good. It’s crazy to think he wasn’t much older than I am now when he passed. he was like 900lbs though...i mean anyone is lucky to even be alive at that weight |
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Post by The Brain on Feb 2, 2021 15:13:05 GMT -5
Renamed the thread to focus on the Icons series itself.
Really looking forward to the Bulldog episode.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2021 16:13:46 GMT -5
It was a great watch. Yokozuna was a great one.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2021 18:16:06 GMT -5
Did it. But you do know you can delete your own posts? Click on the * looking icon In the upper right corner. Then select the delete option and type Delete into to box and hit the button to complete it. good to know! |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2021 18:16:50 GMT -5
LOVED Yoko!
One of my fav big men and heels of all time!
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Post by robbutler01 on Feb 3, 2021 8:25:49 GMT -5
Great show on a great big man.
It's funny how people and magazines back then used to complain when he was champ that he was slow and used too many rest/nerve holds. I think the fact that vader was running as champ in WCW at the same time made people draw comparisons as they were both big guys.
Yoko was never meant to be or move like the 123 kid or vader and was exactly what a monster heel was meant to be.
Looking forward to more shows in the Icons series - if only wwe would do more shows like this.
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Post by jason1980s on Feb 3, 2021 10:34:06 GMT -5
I wonder how his life would have turned out if he had come in to WWF as another Samoan and not the sumo wrestler. The whole sumo gimmick was him being huge whereas the other Samoan family members were just big but not obese. I know Yoko was pretty big even in the 1980s and in the clip I saw of him doing a dark match for WWF he was still at his Kokina weight. But after coming to WWF he just got bigger and bigger. I can't see him dying so young if he had kept his weight down early on.
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Post by JokerFC on Feb 3, 2021 10:34:08 GMT -5
Watched it this morning. Really looking forward to an episode about someone I'm actually a fan of.
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Post by hbkbigdaddycool on Feb 3, 2021 11:36:56 GMT -5
Some of the stuff confused me though. Like Rikishi saying that the Headshrinkers were supposed to be Samu and Yoko, when Samu and Rikishi were the Samoan Swat Team in the NWA, WCCW and other places. So why all of a sudden would Fat (Rikishi) be taken out and replaced by Yoko in that team??
But was there any Prime Time Wrestling footage in 1992 of Yoko as Kokina Maximus wrestling, or was everything for dark matches only with just being video taped anyhow??
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2021 11:37:13 GMT -5
I wonder how his life would have turned out if he had come in to WWF as another Samoan and not the sumo wrestler. The whole sumo gimmick was him being huge whereas the other Samoan family members were just big but not obese. I know Yoko was pretty big even in the 1980s and in the clip I saw of him doing a dark match for WWF he was still at his Kokina weight. But after coming to WWF he just got bigger and bigger. I can't see him dying so young if he had kept his weight down early on. I think if he lost enough weight they would have brought him back with Rikishi as a tag team in late 99. Here’s an interesting fact, Yokozuna helped get Rico to wwe. |
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Post by The Brain on Feb 3, 2021 11:42:33 GMT -5
Some of the stuff confused me though. Like Rikishi saying that the Headshrinkers were supposed to be Samu and Yoko, when Samu and Rikishi were the Samoan Swat Team in the NWA, WCCW and other places. So why all of a sudden would Fat (Rikishi) be taken out and replaced by Yoko in that team??
But was there any Prime Time Wrestling footage in 1992 of Yoko as Kokina Maximus wrestling, or was everything for dark matches only with just being video taped anyhow??
It was all dark stuff.The only hint of that character we got on TV was prior to SSlam on PT when Gorilla mentioned there is a 3rd Samoan coming to the WWF.They never mentioned it again and just debuted em as Yoko in October. |
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Post by rowdy1971 on Feb 3, 2021 14:13:53 GMT -5
THe yoko doc was so very well done. Like it was said, not many things that we didn't know. But the candid footage was really cool to see. And it was also cool to see me in some of the footage they showed at WrestleMania 9! I've never been able to see myself in the audience before for that show. LOL
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Post by TheXtremisT on Feb 4, 2021 6:58:09 GMT -5
Can't wait for the RVD one. Hope it leads to an early WWE-career figure of him from Mattel.
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Post by K5 on Feb 4, 2021 16:30:47 GMT -5
gotta say they killed it with the Yoko episode. what a great presentation. could use a little less Bruce Pritchard but hey, that's my only gripe.
Bret getting to take the piss outta Hogan's ego was great
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