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00:04Coming down the aisle with Mr. Fuji is the challenger.
00:13From the Polynesian Island, weighing 550 pounds, Yokozuna.
00:26You can see, ladies and gentlemen, this is an event of international magnitude.
00:30Photographers from around the world, especially a large contingent from the Orient here,
00:34as they are documenting Yokozuna's every move they have, apparently for several days,
00:40as we have seen many, many photographers here in Dayton.
00:46This is gonna answer a lot of unanswered questions from WrestleMania 9.
00:51A lot of pressure on President Jack Tunney for what he did.
00:55But this is Yokozuna versus Hulk Hogan, and let the winner be the winner.
01:00One thing, Brady's 550 pounds, bigger than he has ever been.
01:05And I understand Hulk Hogan trimmed down so he can have more speed, more endurance.
01:11But I'll tell you something, Hogan's gotta 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.
01:22He'll wear Hogan down.
01:24I think it's gonna go that way.
01:28One thing's for sure, Hogan will be quicker.
01:30He will be faster than he has ever been in any of his 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 gonna be interesting, because he's wrestling a fresh Yokozuna.
01:47Not a man that has already had a 30-minute match with Bret the Hitman Hart.
01:51Well, their last match lasted lasting 30 seconds when Hogan won the title at WrestleMania,
01:57and he has not defended 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.
02:10When he comes down that aisle, this place, it's gonna erupt.
02:13And remember, the last time Yokozuna wrestled, he wrestled a 20-minute, 30-minute match
02:18to win the WWF title.
02:19That's when, oh, here we go.
02:25Listen to this.
02:27This is Hogan to come down the aisle with his manager,
02:32a multiple set, Jimmy Hart,
02:34the winning team of a hard-down,
02:36weighing 312 pounds,
02:40the world of space generation champions,
02:46Hulk Hogan.
02:52Listen to this.
02:54Phenomenal amazing.
02:56The WWF champion.
02:58He thrives on these people.
03:01He thrives on the Hulksters, the little Hulksters.
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 that facility shaped literally moving,
03:19the rafters shaking with the ovation of the WWF champion Hulk Hogan as he comes up the steps
03:27and steps up on the entrance.
03:32You know, 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, he's telling the people he's gonna 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 rotten blue of all glory, ladies.
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.
04:15He 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.
04:26Hogan 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,
04:44Yokozuna.
04:45And now we're gonna find out if it was or if it wasn't.
04:49Bottom line.
04:51Hogan is leaning and mean.
04:53He'll be quicker, as I said, and faster than he has ever been.
04:58His strategy, I'm sure, is very, very exact.
05:06Some people feel that it was Bret the Hitman Hart that should've got the rematch
05:11against Hulk Hogan.
05:12But it was President Jack Tony's decision for Hulk Hogan to go against Yokozuna.
05:17And I question that.
05:19A lot of people wanted the Hitman to have the opportunity in this matchup.
05:23As you mentioned, Randy, as opposed to Yokozuna.
05:25Exactly.
05:26Not a popular decision indeed.
05:28But we are here.
05:29It is time.
05:30The match, the talking is over.
05:32The pre-match hype has ended.
05:35Tell 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 WWE title.
06:06This is gonna answer those unanswered questions right now.
06:10Yokozuna, the mystique of him, is unbelievable.
06:12Everywhere I go, they talk about him.
06:14They 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 gonna have to look Yokozuna.
06:30Hogan's a coward?
06:31How can you even say that?
06:32Because he cheap shot at WrestleMania.
06:34Now he's gonna 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?
06:41You've been alive between your ears.
06:44All right.
06:45You can cut the tension here with a knife.
06:48Deploying an old cliche.
06:49Talk about it being hot outside.
06:51It is boiling in here.
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.
07:09Why does he have to confer to Jimmy Hart right there?
07:12It's psychology.
07:13He's trying to throw Yokozuna off.
07:22Yokozuna looks like he weighs about four times as much as Hulk Hogan.
07:26Call an elbow tie up, neither man moving.
07:28And Yokozuna shows his- Look at the sock.
07:31And 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.
07:44Hogan 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.
07:51A tremendous chop to the back of the head by Yokozuna, those martial arts chops.
07:54Find their mark, and they tingle.
07:57Wow, what 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.
08:12For everything, that's exactly right.
08:14Yokozuna is a former World Wrestling Federation champion,
08:17the shortest reign ever, seconds.
08:21Yokozuna with the approach and the karate thrust right to the throat of the champion.
08:27I'll tell you why Yokozuna is gonna win this one.
08:29Why is that?
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, big overhead forearm from the 550 pound challenger.
08:47Yokozuna slams Hogan violently, and I must add easily, he got him up Randy Savage.
08:54And I wonder if Hogan, if anybody can slam, as you mentioned, Yokozuna, can it be Hulk Hogan?
08:59If anybody can, Hulk Hogan can, I'll guarantee you that.
09:03He won't only do it for Hulk Hogan, he'll do it for the red, the white and the blue.
09:06And 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.
09:15Straight 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 and hold the title and
09:26retire longer than any champion in the history of the WWF.
09:30You can't say anything, but you gotta prove it.
09:32Well, Hogan's down, he's begging him to leave him alone right now.
09:37And Yokozuna's the one standing.
09:38Hogan doesn't beg anything.
09:40Well, he's pleading then, I'm sorry.
09:43Violet whip to the far side, Hogan in trouble here.
09:47Yokozuna, a very methodical, a very deliberate pace.
09:50But nothing but power, another whip to the near side.
09:53Going left around 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.
10:06Whoa.
10:07For the WWF title, but he can't knock him down.
10:10I wonder if he'll try to slam him.
10:12George Foreman could punch like that, he'd have won the fight.
10:15Yokozuna might go through the ring.
10:17These people would pop, I'll guarantee you that.
10:19So would I.
10:21Hogan with right hands, as he's on the second rope.
10:25Hogan is biting Yokozuna.
10:28Go ahead.
10:29Everybody's resorting to everything tonight.
10:32Hogan, can he whip him?
10:34Yes, he did.
10:35He moved the ring.
10:37He followed it up with a clothesline.
10:40And it bounced off of Yokozuna.
10:43Hogan.
10:44Here we go.
10:45Here we go.
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 Doan's back pills?
11:00I think Hogan needs him right now.
11:02That did him more harm than good, guarantee you.
11:04But I'll tell you what, the Pizazz Factor was there.
11:06He wanted to do it for his Hulkamaniacs, but 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 Whip sitting on 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, Rick, Yokozuna's eyes.
11:22A kick to the midsection.
11:23Here we go.
11:24Trying to only get up on one leg.
11:26Hogan said he was gonna slam him.
11:28But thus far, he got him up on one leg.
11:29Yokozuna 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, Hogan'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.
11:50The 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.
12:08Come on.
12:09Iris Swift coming right at us here.
12:11He missed that clothesline.
12:12He missed 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, he could go down.
12:23Hogan comes off the ropes, and Yokozuna countered it.
12:26And he nailed Hogan, and he put the champion down.
12:29See, Yokozuna uses his size and strength to his advantage.
12:33Obviously, he's standing, and the Hulkster is kissing Matt.
12:39Yokozuna goes this way.
12:41And Hogan saved his tire, 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.
12:53Let's see if the cream rises to the top for which guy.
12:58Jimmy Hart telling Hogan, you can do it.
13:01He's trying to give him some encouragement.
13:03It's amazing, the Hulk Hogan taking that punishment.
13:07And these people here in another center.
13:10I'm sure Jimmy Hart doesn't wanna lose his meal ticket.
13:12Helping Hogan emotionally get back to his feet.
13:17Hogan staggers, and he'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.
13:28You'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 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 cereal out of his ribs.
13:51Slap crack on Pop.
13:52We'll find out if being lean and mean is a mistake for Hulk Hogan or if he should've went the
13:56other way.
13:57Right now, I think he looks pretty good, but he's in a bad spot right now.
14:00And a very bad situation.
14:02Yokozuna, that bear hug.
14:03Those huge arms wrapped around the lower back of Hulk Hogan.
14:07Squeezing and squeezing what 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, Heenan.
14:29Hogan's gotta 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 gonna do then?
14:37Does he have enough strength and power left to get the big man off his feet?
14:41And look at Fuji, he's waving the all rising sun.
14:44He's waving that flag.
14:45He's giving power to Yokozuna.
14:47At least Hulk Hogan got the turn corner way around.
14:50And I don't know if that did him any good or not.
14:51It won't.
14:52That's worse.
14:52That's worse.
14:53That's when you can crack the ribs.
14:56Might have made a mistake.
14:57When Yokozuna slaps that bear hug, and the best thing to do is try to get one arm in there.
15:01So you got some breathing room.
15:02He's in a very bad predicament now.
15:04Listen to these people rumble.
15:06They're rumbling.
15:08USA, USA.
15:10Can they put some black 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.
15:19And it's saying red, white, and blue Dayton, Ohio.
15:23This 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.
15:30Some place like Yokohama, Osaka, something like that.
15:34You gotta believe that in living rooms all over America, all over the world.
15:38Fans watching on pay per view are suddenly behind Hulk Hogan.
15:42And Hogan.
15:43Still in there.
15:44He is still fighting.
15:46Straight right hand, right to the face of Yokozuna.
15:49He's gotta cause some separation.
15:51He almost has it.
15:52I'm surprised Hogan is still rare back and punched after being in that bear hug.
15:57Uh-oh, he's hurt, he's hurt.
15:59Hogan's back is injured.
16:01His lower back, it's gotta really be hurting now.
16:04Tell you what, I can't believe he got out of that bear hug.
16:06No, elbow right 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.
16:18And just level it out one more time against Yokozuna.
16:23I hate to see this momentum stay this way.
16:25Look at this.
16:26Yokozuna, over, belly to belly simplex.
16:30That's it, that might be it.
16:31It is over.
16:32The fat lady's gonna sing.
16:34I've been in that.
16:36Hulkamania.
16:37Maybe over right there, lateral press.
16:39Hogan power.
16:40He kicked out with authority.
16:43Hogan shows.
16:45Fushy can't not believe it.
16:46In power.
16:47In heart, the Hulkster.
16:49He hooked up.
16:51The Hulkster back on his knees.
16:56It's the power of Hulkamania, can you feel it?
16:59Don't let the United States of America, don'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.
17:19They're right here.
17:21Hulk reaching down, and he's gotta reach down farther than he's ever reached before.
17:28Kicking right in the face, but Yokozuna did not go down.
17:32He was rocked, but he didn't go down.
17:34Give him another one.
17:38Another whip, another kick, and again, the challenger.
17:44I can't believe it.
17:45Two kicks to the face.
17:47Look at Hogan's face right there, he can't believe it either.
17:51Him not going down, I believe, has taken the fight and the adrenaline out of Hulk Hogan.
17:56Not yet, even.
17:57Give him another.
17:59Three big kicks right to the face.
18:01He's up, he's down.
18:02Yeah.
18:03He falls.
18:04Say goodnight to Yokozuna.
18:08Hogan, and they'll cut the left drop.
18:12One, two, my God.
18:14I can't believe it.
18:15I can't believe it.
18:15Kicked out of his leg.
18:16Nobody gets up from that.
18:17Hogan can't believe it.
18:18And Fuji's knocked off the apron.
18:21Yokozuna kicked out of Hogan's leg.
18:22I can't believe it.
18:24Never before has anybody done that.
18:30Hogan, the photographer, they gotta get that photographer down.
18:34He shouldn't be up on the apron, that's a dangerous place to be.
18:37Well, these pictures are so good.
18:39My 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.
18:50Two.
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 vote, the new World Wrestling Federation champion, Yokozuna.
19:20Boy, the headlines in the papers in Japan are gonna be full of pictures of Yokozuna.
19:28Hogan's eyes, Hogan's side has been impaired from that explosion.
19:32No.
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,
19:41once again, are too much for the Hulkster.
19:46Yokozuna has defeated Hulk Hogan to win the WWF Championship.
19:52Hogan, I'm not sure he can even see.
19:56Hogan doesn't know where he's at, he's blind.
20:00I know what he's gonna do.
20:01Yokozuna wants to insult the injury.
20:04He wants to end Hogan's career.
20:06He wants to kill Hulkamania.
20:11Banzai, here we go.
20:12Fuji instructing Yokozuna to go on top.
20:16Hogan is helpless.
20:19He's gonna squash Hulkamania.
20:23Yokozuna has squashed Hulkamania.
20:27Hulkamania is dead.
20:30He's squashing the American dream right there.
20:35Look at these kids here in the seats.
20:37No.
20:37They're crying.
20:39The people, their children crying.
20:41This is an emotional moment.
20:43But right now, you've gotta think, you gotta hope that Hogan's sight has not been
20:48permanently, that youngster right there.
20:50You gotta 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, heart has just stopped beating.
21:02The blood quit flowing.
21:04Hulk Hogan is finished.
21:09Here's another look.
21:10Here's what happened.
21:11Here's what happened.
21:12Look at this photographer.
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, the 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 and he's gonna 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, I predict that.
22:19This is not an upset to me, it may be to the humanoids.
22:23I know Yokozuna can do it.
22:24Mr. Fuji, I gotta take my hat off to you.
22:26You did it.
22:27What a night this has been.
22:29Look at him, he just threw the World Wrestling Federation Championship belt down.
22:33And it's not over yet.
22:36What a situation.
22:37Look at this guy.
22:38There's a champion.
22:39He's done what no other guy could done.