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00:04Coming down the aisle, with Mr. Fuji, is the challenger from the Polynesian Island, weighing 550 pounds, Yokozuna!
00:26You can see, ladies and gentlemen, this is an event of international magnitude. Photographers from around the world, especially a
00:32large contingent from the Orient here, as they are documenting Yokozuna's every move they have, apparently for several days, as
00:40we have seen many, many photographers here in Dayton.
00:46This is going to answer a lot of unanswered questions from WrestleMania 9. A lot of pressure on President Jack
00:53Putty for what he did, but this is Yokozuna versus Hulk Hogan, and let the winner be the winner.
01:00One thing, Brain, he's 550 pounds, bigger than he has ever been.
01:06And I understand Hulk Hogan trimmed down so he can have more speed, more endurance, but I'll tell you something,
01:12Hogan's got to take him out early.
01:14Why is that, Eden?
01:16Why is that?
01:17Yeah.
01:18Because the longer the match goes, I believe Yokozuna will have the advantage. He'll wear Hogan down.
01:24I think it's going to go that way.
01:26A lot of...
01:28One thing's for sure, Hogan will be quicker. He will be faster than he has ever been in any of
01:33his former title defenses.
01:35Of course, the Hulk's are a five-time WWF champion. Won his first WWF title in 1984.
01:42This is going to be interesting because he's wrestling a fresh Yokozuna. Not a man that has already had a
01:4930-minute match with Bret the Hitman Hulk.
01:51Well, their last match lasted last in 30 seconds when Hogan won the title at WrestleMania, and he has not
01:58defended the title until this night.
02:02I don't know why he did that, but his plan is his plan, whatever.
02:08This is the bottom line right here. When he comes down that aisle, this place is going to erupt.
02:13And remember, the last time Yokozuna wrestled, he wrestled a 20-minute, 30-minute match to win the WWF title.
02:20That's when...
02:20Uh-oh, here we go.
02:25Listen to this.
02:27This is what it is.
02:28You come down the aisle with his miniature, a motionless hat, Kimmy Hart, from Kevin's Chief and the Hogan.
02:36You come down the aisle with your three hundred and two times.
02:40The world's magnificent champion, Hulk Hogan.
02:52Listen to this.
02:54Phenomenal ovation.
02:56The WWF champion.
02:58He thrives on these people.
03:01He thrives on the hulsters.
03:03The little hulsters.
03:04This is what keeps that man going.
03:06For the 550 pounds of a man who has a different idea of what Hulk Hogan is all about.
03:15You can feel this facility shape, literally moving.
03:19The raptor shaking with the ovation of the WWF champion, Hulk Hogan, as he comes up the steps and steps
03:27up on the apron.
03:30He's going to slam Yokozuna.
03:30Lean in me, though.
03:32You know, Hulk Hogan has only been in the ring with Yokozuna one other time.
03:37And that was for less than a minute, I think.
03:39Look at this.
03:40He's telling the people he's going to slam Yokozuna.
03:43Nobody slams Yokozuna.
03:45We'll see.
03:48The Hulkster ready for war.
03:51And you can bet, ladies and gentlemen, it will be warfare here.
03:55If anybody can slam Yokozuna, Hulk Hogan can.
04:01The red, white, and blue of all glory waiting.
04:04The flag of the land of the rising sun being held by a stoic, Mr. Fuji.
04:10But what I'm noticing here is Hogan's relying on the fans.
04:14He wants to hear them cheer.
04:16He wants to draw strength for them.
04:17But Yokozuna is focused.
04:19He has not taken his eyes, him and Mr. Fuji, off Hulk Hogan.
04:24They are ready.
04:25They are ready, believe me.
04:27Hogan wanted this match.
04:28He wanted it in the heartland of America.
04:30He wanted to win this one for the red, white, and blue for the USA.
04:34And we're here in Dayton, Ohio, and our own American city.
04:38And this is going to be something.
04:40Hulk Hogan wanted to prove that it was not a fluke that he beat this guy, Yokozuna.
04:45And now we're going to find out if it was or if it wasn't.
04:49Bottom line.
04:51Hogan is leaning and mean.
04:54He'll be quicker, as I said, and faster than he has ever been.
04:58His strategy, I'm sure, is very, very exact.
05:06But some people feel that it was Brett the Hitman Hart that should have got the rematch against Hulk Hogan.
05:12But it was President Jack Tunney's decision for Hulk Hogan to go against Yokozuna.
05:17And I question that.
05:19A lot of people wanted a Hitman to have the opportunity in this matchup.
05:23As you mentioned, Randy, as opposed to Yokozuna.
05:26Exactly.
05:26Not a popular decision, indeed.
05:28But we are here.
05:29It is time.
05:30The match talking is over.
05:32The pre-match hype has ended.
05:34I tell you, a lot of people's favorite colors in this building is yellow and red.
05:39But for me, it's the red, the white, and the blue.
05:43You know, it's ironic that Hogan should be wearing yellow.
05:46This is for the World Wrestling Federation Championship.
05:50What a matchup.
05:53All the marbles on the line.
05:55Forget the NBA.
05:57Forget the NFL.
05:58Forget Major League Baseball.
06:00This is it.
06:01This is the gold.
06:02This is where you make the money.
06:03This is it.
06:04More recognized than anything, that WWF title.
06:06This is going to answer those unanswered questions right now.
06:10Yokozuna, the mystique of him, is unbelievable.
06:12Everywhere I go, they talk about him.
06:15They feel that he should possibly be the World Wrestling Federation Champion.
06:18And I can't deny that they have substance to that.
06:21We'll find out right now.
06:25You know, Hogan's a coward.
06:27And this time, he's going to have to look Yokozuna right in the end.
06:30Hogan's a coward?
06:31How can you even say that?
06:32Because he cheap shot him at WrestleMania.
06:35Now he's got to look him straight in the eyes.
06:36Let's see what you're made of, Hogan.
06:38You say your power lies right here in the palm of your hand.
06:41It's been alive between your ears.
06:44All right.
06:45You can cut the tension here with a knife.
06:48The coin, an old cliche.
06:49Talk about it being hot outside.
06:51It is boiling in here.
06:54Oh!
06:55Call an elbow tie-up.
06:57Put him back about a half an inch.
07:00He looks 50 pounds heavier.
07:03Looks 100 pounds heavier.
07:07Hogan conferring with his manager, Jimmy Hart.
07:10Why does he have to confer to Jimmy Hart right there?
07:12It's psychology.
07:13He's trying to throw Yokozuna off.
07:16Don't know.
07:19Don't know.
07:22Yokozuna looks like he weighs about four times as much as Hulk Hogan.
07:26Car an elbow tie-up.
07:27Neither man moving.
07:28And Yokozuna shows his superior bulk and strength by putting Hogan down.
07:33Hogan looks shocked.
07:36Every time he throws Hogan down, he thinks he's throwing America to the ground.
07:40A lot of pressure on Hulk Hogan right now.
07:42Boy, is there ever.
07:43See, Hogan's a dummy, though.
07:45Hogan will go out and try to beat Yokozuna.
07:47He doesn't have to beat Yokozuna.
07:49Yokozuna has to beat him to become the champion.
07:51Trippinus chopped to the back of the head by Yokozuna.
07:53Those martial arts chops find their mark.
07:55And they take...
07:56Oh, wow.
07:57What a chop there.
07:58And they take their toll on the five-time WWF champion.
08:03For the World Wrestling Federation Championship belt, Yokozuna versus Hulk Hogan.
08:08You know what it's about, Savage.
08:09You held the belt twice.
08:11It's not easy.
08:12That's exactly right.
08:15Yokozuna's a former World Wrestling Federation champion.
08:17The shortest reign ever.
08:19Seconds.
08:21Yokozuna with a hypothetical approach.
08:24And the karate thrust right to the throat of the champion.
08:27I'll tell you why Yokozuna's going to win this one.
08:29Why?
08:30There's no way Mr. Fuji and Yokozuna can go back to the Orient and lose face.
08:36They've got to win this one.
08:38Clubbing blow.
08:39Big overhead forearm from the 550-pound challenger.
08:47Yokozuna slams Hogan violently.
08:50And I must add, easily, he got him up.
08:53Randy Savage.
08:54And I wonder if Hogan, if anybody can slam.
08:56As you mentioned, Yokozuna, can it be Hulk Hogan?
08:59If anybody can, Hulk Hogan can.
09:01I'll guarantee you that.
09:03He won't only do it for Hulk Hogan.
09:04He'll do it for the red, the white, and the blue.
09:06When we're not just talking body slamming, we're talking the belt.
09:09I'll make it very simple.
09:11Triple A couldn't even pick up Yokozuna.
09:16Great karate thrust.
09:17Mr. Fuji told me just about an hour ago in the back.
09:20He says, Mr. Hinen-san, Yokozuna will be WWF champion.
09:24And hold the title and retire longer than any champion in the history of the WWF.
09:30You can't say anything, but you've got to prove it.
09:32Well, Hogan's down.
09:33He's begging him for, to take, leave him alone right now.
09:37And Yokozuna's the one standing.
09:39Hogan doesn't beg any problem.
09:40Well, he's bleeding then.
09:41I'm sorry.
09:43Violet whip to the far side.
09:45Hogan in trouble here.
09:47Yokozuna.
09:47At a very methodical, a very deliberate pace.
09:50But nothing but power.
09:51Another whip to the near side.
09:53Going left to right on your television screen.
09:55Uh-oh, this could be an early.
09:56Put it over, put it all out there.
09:59Hogan able to quickly move out of the way.
10:02Hogan straight right hand.
10:04Hogan rocking the challenger for the WWF title.
10:08But he can't knock him down.
10:10I wonder if he'll try to slam him.
10:12George Foreman could punch like that.
10:14He'd have won the fight.
10:16Yokozuna might go through the ring.
10:17These people would pop.
10:18I'll guarantee you that.
10:19So would I.
10:20Three, three, four.
10:21Hogan with right hands.
10:23As he's on the second row.
10:26Hogan is biting Yokozuna.
10:28Go ahead.
10:29Everybody's resorting to everything tonight.
10:33Hogan, can he whip him?
10:34Yes, he did.
10:35Oh, he moved the ring.
10:37He followed it up with a clothesline.
10:40And he's bounced off of Yokozuna.
10:43Oh, here we go.
10:45Here we do it.
10:46Hogan's trying to slam him.
10:47He couldn't get him.
10:48He couldn't get him up.
10:49And Yokozuna clipped Hogan in the lower back with those huge arms.
10:53He had time to slam him right there.
10:55He couldn't get him.
10:56I can't believe it.
10:57Does anybody have any of those little bottles of Jones back pills?
11:00I think Hogan needs them right now.
11:02That did a Mohan than good guarantee you.
11:04But I'll tell you what.
11:05The pizzazz factor was there.
11:06He wanted to do it for his Hulkamaniacs.
11:08But he just couldn't do it.
11:09Do it for yourself.
11:10Do it for your bank account.
11:11Forget the little punk Hulkamaniacs.
11:13Irish whips.
11:14There are the ropes far side.
11:15Yokozuna missed the clothesline.
11:16Hogan quickly turns.
11:18He comes back with All-American right hands.
11:20And Hogan breaks Yokozuna's eyes.
11:22A kick to the midsection.
11:23Here we go.
11:24Try to get him up on one leg.
11:26Hogan said he was going to slam him.
11:28But thus far, he got him up on one leg.
11:30Yokozuna blocked it again.
11:31He's actually had three tries right there.
11:33The best he could do was get his left leg up in the air.
11:35I'm really watching that carefully.
11:37I got it under the microscope.
11:39I'll tell you one thing.
11:40Hogan's a lot quicker than Yokozuna.
11:42But he's not as strong as Yokozuna.
11:45You can tell that.
11:46Not very many people are here.
11:49Well, thank you very much, Savage.
11:51That tremendous bulk that Yokozuna possesses.
11:53He's very hard to physically move around the ring to upset his balance points.
11:59And again, Yokozuna, almost in a scary, methodical, almost a trance-like situation.
12:09Iris Swift coming right at us here.
12:11He missed that clothesline.
12:12He missed with the elbow there.
12:14And Hogan caught in the clothesline.
12:17He rocked the big man.
12:18He's got him rocked.
12:20And again, Yokozuna staggers.
12:21One more of those.
12:22He could go down.
12:24Hogan comes off the ropes.
12:25And Yokozuna countered it.
12:26And he nailed Hogan.
12:27And he puts the champion down.
12:29See, Yokozuna uses his size and strength to his advantage.
12:33Obviously, he's standing.
12:35And the holster is kissing Matt.
12:39Yokozuna.
12:40Go!
12:40Oh!
12:41And Hogan saved his title, you gotta think, by moving out of the way.
12:46That's 550 pounds coming down at you.
12:50Hogan's got Yokozuna off his feet.
12:52Right now, we're even up.
12:54Let's see if the cream rises to the top for which guy.
12:58Jimmy Hart telling Hogan, you can do it.
13:01Trying to give him some encouragement.
13:04It's amazing.
13:05The Hulk Hogan taking that punishment.
13:07And these people here in another center.
13:10Sure, Jimmy Hart doesn't want to lose his meal ticket.
13:12Helping Hogan emotionally get back to his feet.
13:17Hogan staggers.
13:19Mid tackle.
13:19And he ran.
13:20It's like running right into a tree.
13:21Did not move, Yokozuna.
13:23It's like running into Mount Fuji.
13:25Hulk Hogan had the momentum and he went down.
13:27Unbelievable.
13:29You're talking about knocking down a big man.
13:30Hulk Hogan is a big man.
13:32Somebody told me once, when you run into Yokozuna, it feels like he's running into you.
13:36Watch this.
13:38A very painful, a very painful, a very painful, a very basic maneuver.
13:42And remember, Hogan trimmed down for this match.
13:45So Yokozuna can really wrap his arms around him and make a breakfast sillier out of his ribs.
13:51We'll snap, crackle, and pop.
13:52We'll find out if being lean and mean is a mistake for Hulk Hogan or if he should have went
13:56the other way.
13:57Right now, I think he looks pretty good, but he's in a bad spot right now.
14:00In a very bad situation.
14:02Yokozuna, that bear hug.
14:04Those huge arms.
14:05Wrapped around the lower back of Hulk Hogan.
14:07Squeezing and squeezing.
14:09What all he has.
14:10So far, the managers on the outside of the ring have been a non-factor, and that's the way it
14:15should be.
14:16Well, a good manager right now would turn the referee around and have a conversation with him
14:21while Hogan jim's a thumb in his eye.
14:23But no, he's above that, right?
14:25Wrong.
14:26He already put a thumb in his eye earlier in the match, Eden.
14:29Hogan's got a counter.
14:30Some way, somehow, he has to counter.
14:32He's trying to get his arms inside the arms of Yokozuna.
14:35But if he does, what's he going to do then?
14:38Does he have enough strength and power left to get the big man off his feet?
14:41And look at Fuji.
14:41He's waving the all-raising sun.
14:44He's waving that flag.
14:45He's giving power to Yokozuna.
14:47At least Hogan got the turn corner way around, but I don't know if that did him any good or
14:51not.
14:51It won't.
14:52That's worse.
14:53That's worse.
14:53That's when you can crack the ribs.
14:56Might have made a mistake.
14:57When Yokozuna slaps that bear hug, the best thing to do is try to get one arm in there.
15:01So you've got some breathing room.
15:03He's in a very bad predicament now.
15:04Listen to these people rumble.
15:06They're rumbling.
15:08USA.
15:09USA.
15:10Can they put some life back into Hogan?
15:12Can they help the Hulkster get out of this predicament that he is in?
15:16It's the heartbeat of America.
15:18You're listening to it.
15:20And it's saying red, white, and blue.
15:21Dayton, Ohio.
15:22This is where Hulk Hogan wanted to go against Yokozuna.
15:25He's got it.
15:26Now let's get the job done.
15:28This should have been held on neutral ground.
15:30Someplace like Yokohama, Osaka, something like that.
15:34You're going to believe that in living rooms all over America, all over the world, fans watching on pay-per
15:40-view are suddenly behind.
15:42Hulk Hogan.
15:43And Hogan.
15:44Still in there.
15:44He is still fighting.
15:46Straight right hand.
15:47Right to the face of Yokozuna.
15:49He's got to cause some separation.
15:51He almost has it.
15:52I'm surprised Hogan's still rear back and punch after being in that bear hunt.
15:57Uh-oh.
15:58He's hurt.
15:58He's hurt.
15:59Hogan's back is injured.
16:01His lower back.
16:02It's got to really be hurting now.
16:04Tell you what, I can't believe he got out of that bear hunt.
16:06No.
16:07The ball.
16:08Right to the face.
16:09Again, the mass and the bulk of the 550-pound challenger puts Hulk Hogan down.
16:14I'd like to see Hulk Hogan just get some breathing air right now and just level it out one more
16:20time against Yokozuna.
16:23I hate to see this momentum stay this way.
16:25Look at this.
16:26Hogan's over.
16:28Belly to belly to splash.
16:30That's it.
16:30That might be it.
16:31It's over.
16:32The fat lady's going to sing.
16:34I've been in that.
16:36Hulkamania.
16:37Maybe over right there.
16:38Lateral press.
16:40Oh, Hogan's over.
16:40He kicked out with authority.
16:43Hulk Hogan showed.
16:45Hulkamania.
16:46Can you feel it?
16:47In heart.
16:49The Hulkster.
16:49He hulked up.
16:51The Hulkster back up on his knees.
16:56It's the power of Hulkamania.
16:58Can you feel it?
16:59Don't let the United States of America.
17:01Don't let Dayton, Ohio.
17:03And don't let the Hulkster intimidate you.
17:06Stay on him, Yokozuna.
17:07Say goodbye to Yokozuna, Hogan.
17:11Hulkamania is alive and well in Dayton, Ohio.
17:15The Hulkster is up and ready to fight.
17:17Whoa.
17:18Look at those eyes.
17:20They're right here.
17:21Hogan reaching down.
17:23And he's got to reach down farther than he's ever reached before.
17:27Oh.
17:29Kicking right in the face.
17:30But Yokozuna did not go down.
17:32He was rocked, but he didn't go down.
17:35Give him another one.
17:39Another whip.
17:40Another kick.
17:41And again.
17:41The challenger.
17:43He got to go down.
17:44I can't believe it.
17:46Two kicks to the face.
17:47Look at Hogan's face.
17:48Look at Hogan's face right there.
17:50He can't believe it either.
17:51He's not going down.
17:52I believe that's taken the fight and the adrenaline out of Hulk Hogan.
17:56Not yet, Eamon.
17:57Give him another.
17:59Three big kicks right to the face.
18:01He's up.
18:02He's done.
18:02Yeah.
18:03And he falls.
18:04Say goodnight to Yokozuna.
18:08Hogan.
18:09And they'll cut the left drop.
18:11Look at this.
18:12One, two.
18:13Oh my God.
18:14I can't believe it.
18:15Kicked out of his leg.
18:16Nobody gets up in that.
18:17Hogan can't believe it.
18:19And Fuji's knocked off the apron.
18:21Yokozuna kicked out of Hogan's left drop.
18:23I can't believe it.
18:24Never before has anybody done that.
18:28Hogan.
18:30But the photographer.
18:32They got to get that photographer down.
18:34He shouldn't be up on the apron.
18:36That's a dangerous place to be.
18:37Well, these pictures are so good.
18:39Oh my God.
18:39What was that?
18:40His camera exploded.
18:41What the?
18:41Right in Hogan's face.
18:43His camera exploded in Hogan's face.
18:46Yokozuna drops a leg on Hogan.
18:49Yokozuna.
18:49One.
18:50The leg hook.
18:50Two.
18:51Yokozuna.
18:51We got a new champion.
18:53We got a new champion.
18:55What the hell happened?
18:57Obviously, his camera exploded.
19:02Ladies and gentlemen, let's go to Howard Finkle for the official decision.
19:06The winner of this fight and new world wrestling federation champion, Yokozuna.
19:21Boy, the headlines in the papers in Japan are going to be full of pictures of Yokozuna.
19:28Hogan's eyes.
19:29Hogan's side has been impaired from that explosion.
19:32Oh no.
19:33I can't call what happened because I don't know.
19:36It's obvious to me that the bright lights of the World Wrestling Federation once again
19:42are too much for the Hulkster.
19:46Yokozuna has defeated Hulk Hogan to wear the WWF Championship.
19:53Hogan, I'm not sure he can even see.
19:57Hogan doesn't know where he's at.
19:58He's blind.
20:00Oh, I know what he's going to do.
20:01Yokozuna wants the head, insult the injury.
20:04He wants to end Hogan's career.
20:06He wants to kill Hulkamania.
20:08He wants to kill Hulkamania.
20:11Banzai.
20:12Here we go.
20:12Fuji instructing Yokozuna to go up top.
20:16Hogan is helpless.
20:19He's going to squash Hulkamania.
20:24Yokozuna has squashed Hulkamania.
20:27Hulkamania is dead.
20:30He's squashing the American dream right there.
20:35Boy, look at these kids here in this seat.
20:37Oh no.
20:37They're crying.
20:40There's children crying.
20:42This is an emotional moment.
20:43But right now, you've got to think, you've got to hope that Hogan's sight has not been permitted.
20:49That youngster right there.
20:50You've got to know that he is so heartbroken that the Hulkster.
20:55We're in the heartland, right?
20:56I believe the heartland and the heart of America.
20:59Hulk Hogan.
21:01Heart has just stopped beating.
21:03The blood quit flowing.
21:04Hulk Hogan is finished.
21:09Here's another look.
21:10Here's what happened.
21:11Here's what happened.
21:13Let's see if that camera exploded or what happened.
21:16And it caught him.
21:18It caught him right in his eye.
21:20That flash, that explosion caught Hogan right in his eye.
21:23And Yokozuna dropped 550 pounds.
21:26Hogan's own maneuver right across.
21:28And there you see him.
21:29The new World Wrestling Federation Champion.
21:32But also remember that Yokozuna kicked out of the big leg.
21:36I can't believe it that he kicked out of Hulk Hogan's leg.
21:39And Hogan could not slam Yokozuna.
21:43He didn't slam Yokozuna.
21:45And he lost the World Wrestling Federation Championship belt to him.
21:48I cannot believe what I've seen.
21:51Has Yokozuna killed Hulkamania?
21:53Has Yokozuna ended Hulkamania?
21:56Here's the photographers pouring into the ring.
21:59Yokozuna obviously to me is a grand.
22:02And he's going to be a national champion in Japan.
22:07You can better believe that this will be the front page of every major newspaper in the Orient within 24
22:14hours.
22:14It will be on the front page of every newspaper across the world.
22:17I predict that.
22:19This is not an upset to me.
22:21It may be to the humanoids.
22:22I know Yokozuna can do it.
22:24Mr. Fucci, I've got to take my hat off to you.
22:26You did it.
22:28What a night this has been.
22:30Look at him.
22:30He just threw the World Wrestling Federation Championship belt down.
22:33And it's not over yet.
22:35Oh, what a situation.
22:37Look at this guy.
22:38There's a champion.
22:39He's done what no other guy could done.
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