alko
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Was this big boy from Japan only a one time wonder? Why didnt they used him much more? There was potential, but after they turned him from heel to face, his career ended.
He got too fat. End of story. He was a liability to have wrestle as they didn't know if his heart would explode and they didn't trust him to not kill guys in there. He was a legitimate 700+ pounds at that time. They told him to go away and lose some weight, he came back heavier.Was this big boy from Japan only a one time wonder? Why didnt they used him much more? There was potential, but after they turned him from heel to face, his career ended.
Exactly. Every hiatus he took was a "go home and lose 100 pounds". He kept getting bigger and bigger. I loved his tag team with Owen, that was his best run, IMO, as I wasn't a huge fan of his run as champion (because Bret Hart should have had it then).Yup, his weight got too high. I believe that was part of the reason for his absence from Survivor Series 94 - WrestleMania XI. The tag team run with Owen was fun, then he turned face and kept getting bigger. I think the last straw was when the ring rope broke during his SummerSlam pre-show match with Austin.
That bad. I remember the match vs Undertaker. For his bodymass i was amazed how mobile he was.
Where was Yokozuna before WWF? In Japan wrestling?
Yeah, there's next to nothing on wiki about him being in Japan, like literally one sentence.I don't really want to be that guy but... perhaps Yokozuna's connection to Japan wasn't as strong as you think. Wikipedia said that he did wrestle a bit in Japan but I think that he did more in the AWA. I saw him on ESPN Classic once or twice during an episode of the AWA's weekly program.
The last major appearance for Yokozuna was at October 1999's Heroes of Wrestling pay-per-view. At an estimated 760 lb (345 kg), he had not only gained the weight that he had lost, but admitted he was intentionally getting bigger, with a goal weight between 850 (386 kg) and 900 lb (408 kg), so that he would set a new record for the heaviest professional wrestler ever.[50] At the pay-per-view event, Yokozuna was scheduled to take on King Kong Bundy in one of the event's two featured matches. However, Jake Roberts, who was scheduled to face Jim Neidhart in the other main event match, came to the ring for his match intoxicated and in no condition to wrestle. The promoters made a last minute change and ordered Yokozuna to team with Roberts against Bundy and Neidhart, and Yokozuna's team lost.