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This is a list of all sumo wrestlers who have reached the sport's highest rank of yokozuna. It was not recorded on the banzuke until 1890 and was not officially recognised as sumo's highest rank until 1909. Until then, yokozuna was merely a licence given to certain ōzeki to perform the dohyō-iri ceremony.
At WrestleMania IX, Yokozuna defeated Bret Hart to win the WWF World Heavyweight Championship. [38] His title reign only lasted several minutes, as he dropped the belt to Hulk Hogan in an impromptu match. [39] Yokozuna regained the title but dropped it to Hart the following year. [40]
Yokozuna's next title challenger was The Undertaker, whom he was eventually forced to accept a casket match with. [2] The match occurred on January 22, 1994, at Royal Rumble , which Yokozuna won by shoving the Undertaker in the casket with help from multiple heel wrestlers.
All three men eventually wound up in a meeting, where McMahon outlined the plan to have Hogan drop the belt to Yokozuna and denied telling Bret that Hogan refused to drop the championship to him. [60] After regaining the title, Yokozuna challenged any American athlete to bodyslam him on the deck of the USS Intrepid on July 4, 1993. After many ...
Yokozuna performed a leg drop on Hart but then missed an Avalanche attempt. [37] Bret maintained the advantage for a little while, but Yokozuna came back with a belly to belly suplex. [37] When Yokozuna attempted the Banzai drop, however, he lost his balance and fell to the mat. [34] Hart quickly pinned Yokozuna to win the title. [34]
The 1994 Royal Rumble was the seventh annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). It took place on Saturday, January 22, 1994, at the Providence Civic Center in Providence, Rhode Island—the second and final Royal Rumble held on a Saturday until the 2022 event.
Hogan quickly defeated Yokozuna to become the new WWF Champion. [13] Due to a real-life arrangement with WWF owner Vince McMahon, Hogan was supposed to lose the title to Bret Hart, but he changed his mind and refused to lose to Hart. He formed a compromise that allowed him to face Yokozuna in a rematch at King of the Ring. [14]
The House of Yoshida Tsukasa (吉田司家), also commonly called Yoshida family, is a Japanese aristocratic family who was once responsible for the organization of professional sumo in feudal Japan, controlling rikishi (professional wrestlers) and gyōji (sumo referees) throughout the country, making sure that sumo etiquette was strictly observed, and granting the rank of yokozuna and tate ...