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[1994-01-22-WWF-Royal Rumble] Undertaker vs Yokozuna (Casket)


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  • 2 years later...

None of this impessed me worth a damn. I wasn't even paying attention all the way by the time the supernatural stuff started, to be honest. One thought and one thought only was in my mind as Taker battled every heel in the damn company except for the guy he was actually supposed to be wrestling. You know, the guy with the belt:

 

Is this what Yoko's been reduced to? Is he so fat and incompetent that it takes every other heel in the goddamn building to wrestle the match for him? He hasn't looked good in any of the matches he's been in on these Yearbooks. Not one​. He's a joke of a champion, plain and simple. Forget having a decent match; the man can't even have a match at all​. Don't call that brawl we saw before everyone else came down a match; it was an opening segment, or at least it should ​have been. If he's that incapable of wrestling, take the belt off of him, Vince. Don't stink up a pay-per-view with shit like this.

 

You'll never convince me that this wasn't done as much to keep Yoko from actually having to wrestle as much as it was to sideline Taker. If Yoko had been capable of getting out of his own way, he would have put Taker out himself, as others have said above me. But he wasn't, and we still have to watch him work twice ​at Mania. It wouldn't have been so bad if he'd at least participated in the beatdown, but he didn't except to coldcock Percy. What a disgrace. I don't see how Nash could possibly be worse.

 

I meant to ask this before, but did it sound to any of you like Vince and Teddy were calling this off of a monitor in Stamford? They certainly didn't sound like they were at the card live. Maybe they were having technical difficulties of some sort or other.

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  • 6 months later...

I was actually surprised how much I was enjoying the Yoko-Taker brawl before all the heels came out. Yoko was both far bigger and far more mobile than I remember at this point.

 

I agree it was disappointing that Yoko didn't really take part in the beat down. If he did the big leg-drop and a few banzai-drops, it would have made him look better and the Undertaker's 'death' seem more plausible too.

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  • 3 years later...

One question, I've read that the Undertaker who was being raised to the "heavens" was actually Marty Jannetty in an Undertaker suit. Is this legit? Looking at the segment its hard to say, but the hair doesnt seem to match. I mean, they still could have conceivably just used Undertaker (slip a trap door in the casket so taker can head in back and get strapped up while the pre-taped interview is playing). 

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