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What (who) is yokozuna - definition

AMERICAN PROFESSIONAL WRESTLER (1966-2000)
Wild Samoan Kokina; Great Kokina; Kokina Maximus; Rodney Anoai; Yokozuna wwe; Rodney Anoa'i; Rodney Anoaʻi
  • Yokozuna in England in October 1995
  • [[The Usos]] inducting Yokozuna into the [[WWE Hall of Fame (2012)]]
  • Monday Night Raw]]''

yokozuna      
[?j??k?'zu:n?]
¦ noun (plural same) a grand champion sumo wrestler.
Origin
Japanese, from yoko 'crosswise' + tsuna 'rope' (orig. denoting a belt presented to the champion).
List of yokozuna         
WIKIMEDIA LIST ARTICLE
List of Yokozuna
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.
Yokozuna Memorial Show         
PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING EVENT
Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Yokozuna Memorial Show
The Yokozuna Benefit Memorial Show was a professional wrestling event produced by World Xtreme Wrestling (WXW) promotion which took place on 29 November 2001, at the Lehigh Valley Sports Zone (WXW Arena) in Allentown, Pennsylvania. It was held in memory of wrestler Rodney "Yokozuna" Anoa'i, the nephew of promoter Afa Anoa'i and former two-time WWF World Heavyweight Champion, who died of pulmonary edema in Liverpool, England during a tour of Europe the previous year.

Wikipedia

Yokozuna (wrestler)

Agatupu Rodney Anoaʻi (October 2, 1966 – October 23, 2000) was an American professional wrestler. He was best known for his time with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), where he wrestled under the ring name Yokozuna, a reference to the highest rank in professional sumo wrestling in Japan. He was a two-time world champion.

Although the Yokozuna character was portrayed as a champion sumo wrestler, Anoaʻi never competed as an actual sumotori. Though he wrestled as a representative of Japan, in real life he was a Samoan American and was accordingly billed as hailing from Polynesia. However, he was managed by the Japanese character Mr. Fuji (in reality a Japanese American) who would follow Anoaʻi to the ring with a wooden bucket of salt while waving a Japanese flag.

In the WWF, Anoaʻi was a two-time WWF World Heavyweight Champion and two-time WWF Tag Team Champion (with Owen Hart), as well as the winner of the 1993 Royal Rumble. He was the first wrestler of Samoan descent to hold the WWF World Heavyweight Championship, as well as the first Royal Rumble winner who (as a result of a direct stipulation) received a WWF world championship title shot at WrestleMania. He defeated WWE Hall of Famers Bret Hart and Hulk Hogan, in consecutive pay-per-view victories in the main event of WrestleMania IX and the 1993 King of the Ring, to win his two WWF World Heavyweight Championships, and also headlined WrestleMania X against Hart. He was the third-fastest newcomer (after Brock Lesnar and Sheamus) to win the WWF/E Championship after his debut. He was posthumously inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2012.

Examples of use of yokozuna
1. For the first time there is no Japanese yokozuna, or grand champion, the current one being the Mongolian, Asashoryu.
2. The Japan Sumo Association suspended Asashoryu –– the first time the country‘s yokozuna , or top sumo, has received that punishment.
3. Yokozuna hold an almost god–like status in a sport that dates back 2,000 years and remains imbued with Shinto religious overtones.
4. But foreigners first threatened to dominate the sport in 1''3, when Chad Rowan, also Hawaiian, became the first foreign yokozuna.
5. Asashoryu, the current sole ‘yokozuna‘, is Mongolian, and the most popular wrestler on the circuit, the handsome and relatively svelte Kotooshu, hails from Bulgaria.