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  Lanza Yokozuna primer Ep homonimo con gran diversidad instrumental. | terra
Lanza Yokozuna primer Ep homonimo con gran diversidad instrumental.
Lanza Yokozuna primer Ep homónimo con gran diversidad instrumental.
Este disco de corta duración que saca a Yokozuna, bajo el sello de Emi music, muestra desde la portada- un ángel con una guitarra eléctrica- un estilo irrevente y desenfrenado que provoca e incita a las fiestas y que según sus cálculos a la fecha les ha dado un total de 60 canciones.
www.terra.com /ocio/articulo/html/oci154046.htm   (520 words)

  
  Rodney Anoai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Though Yokozuna wresled a representative of Japan, he was of Samoan origin and was accordingly billed as heading from the "Polynesian Island".
Fuji, Yokozuna was announced as a sumo wrestler competing under the Japanese flag.
In September 1995, Yokozuna teamed up with Davey Boy Smith to take on Shawn Michaels and Diesel (the back story being that Hart was supposedly with his wife as she gave birth to one of their children) with the belts on the line.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rodney_Anoai   (2394 words)

  
 Yokozuna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yokozuna Asashoryu (center) performing the ring-entering ceremony while flanked by a sword bearer on the left and dew sweeper on the right.
After a tournament, the Yokozuna Deliberation Council, a body of "lay people" (that is, not former sumo wrestlers) who are appointed by the Japan Sumo Association to provide an independent quality control on Yokozuna promotion, meet and discuss the performance of the top-ranked wrestlers.
The sword is a Japanese katana and symbolises the samurai status of the yokozuna.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yokozuna   (1527 words)

  
 Sumo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yokozuna, or grand champions, are wrestlers who generally are regularly in competition to win the top division tournament title near the end of a tournament.
Yokozuna Chiyonofuji retired in the early 1990s after winning an astonishing 31 tournaments, which is nearly as many as Akebono and Takanohana won together.
A top division wrestler who is not an Ozeki or Yokozuna and who finishes the tournament with kachikoshi is also eligible to be considered for one of the three sanshō prizes awarded for technique (ginōshō), fighting spirit (kantōshō), and for the defeating the most Yokozuna and Ōzeki (shukunshō).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sumo   (5327 words)

  
 Yokozuna
Yokozuna then had to deal with the 'rebirth' of the Undertaker, who immediately came after the foe that had taken him out of action.
This was Yokozuna's last hurrah in the WWF for a time, as he wrestled only briefly on the mid-card before taking some time off.
Yokozuna took the advantage near the end of the match, but when he went for the Banzai Splash, the rope broke, sending him crashing back down.
www.accelerator3359.com /Wrestling/bios/yokozuna.html   (2767 words)

  
 Far Outliers
The conventional genealogy of yokozuna begins with Akashi Shiganosuke in the early seventeenth century, but there is no record that such a wrestler ever existed, much less that he was made a yokozuna.
The institutionalization of the practice in the early twentieth century involved a series of innovations beginning in the late nineteenth century and culminating in the official recognition of the yokozuna as the highest rank in sumo.
Shortly after the term "yokozuna" entered the banzuke rankings, a private campaign was started to distinguish ozeki with the yokozuna license from those without it.
faroutliers.blogspot.com /2004/11/origin-of-yokozuna-rank-in-sumo.html   (746 words)

  
 Yokozuna | Rainboo Software
Yokozuna provides efficient kanji learning method which designed to address two of the biggest problems when learning single kanji: memorizing strokes and readings of the characters.
Yokozuna provides both reading and writing testing facilities, first is in the form of quiz, second is writing character you recollect by readings and meaning.
Yokozuna testing is also a great challenge that allows you to pass to higher level of the kanji game.
www.rainboo.com /yokozuna.html   (1089 words)

  
 Yokozuna: From the AWA to the top
Yokozuna soon dumped his managers, began to speak in a clear English voice and became a fan favourite.
Yokozuna was kept on the WWF roster for months following his last ring appearance at the Survivor Series where he was put in a mid-card match.
Yokozuna dropped over a 100 pounds, but his 600-pound frame was still too massive.
slam.canoe.ca /SlamWrestlingBiosXYZ/yokozuna_bio-can.html   (1079 words)

  
 Obsessed With Wrestling   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
~~~Yokozuna was billed as a Japanese wrestler even though he was legitimately Somoan..
Yokozuna was briefly teamed with Crush (Brian Adams)..
Yokozuna was spotted around the independant circuit for the next few years..
www.obsessedwithwrestling.com /profiles/y/yokozuna.html   (911 words)

  
 Yokozuna dead at 34
Respected wrestling journalist Georgiann Makropoulos of 1Wrestling.com was the first to break the story, after receiving a call from Afa, of the Wild Samoans, telling her the sad news.
Yokozuna, who stood 6'6" and weighed 589 pounds, was a two-time WWF World champion.
Yokozuna first won the WWF title for the first time at WrestleMania IX in 1993 in Las Vegas, beating Bret 'Hitman' Hart.
slam.canoe.ca /SlamWrestlingBiosXYZ/yokozuna_obit-can.html   (582 words)

  
 Yokozuna Statistics
Note also, that it was not before 1951, that yokozuna was the only official highest rank in banzuke, before it was actually equal to the ozeki ranks, with some certain "yokozuna-ozekis".
Note: The first year the title "Yokozuna" appeared in the banzuke was 1890, when this title was given to Nishinoumi I in the May basho.
It was not before February 1909 when Yokozuna was adopted as the highest rank or "saiko-ichi", but (until 1950) still along with Ozeki, changed from the "highest level" or "saikokyu".
www.arkanda.net /sumo/yokozuna-statistics.htm   (416 words)

  
 Goodbye Yokozuna   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Yokozuna entered the WWF in 1993 and was managed by Mr.
Yokozuna was billed as from Japan as a sumo wrestler, but he is actually from Polynesia, and is related to WWF superstar The Rock.
Yokozuna held the WWF Heavyweight Championship on two occasions, defeating Bret Hart and Hulk Hogan.
www.fortunecity.com /olympia/mcmahon/48/people/byeyokozuna.htm   (329 words)

  
 PhotoGuide Japan/Fukagawa Hachimangu Shrine with Yokozuna Takanohana?[?i`?h??h|?O?e`
The Yokozuna Monument (right picture) consists of a few large slabs of stone inscribed with the ring name, hometown, and yokozuna promotion date of each yokozuna grand champion who have attained this lofty rank since the Edo Period in the 18th century.
After the inscriptions of 45 yokozuna names (up to Wakanohana I) filled the original monument, two new monument slabs were built alongside the original monument in 1983.
On April 23, 1995, the shrine's Yokozuna Monument was inscribed with the name of the newest and 65th yokozuna, Takanohana.
photojpn.org /matsuri/fukagawa/taka1.html   (716 words)

  
 Yokozuna
Soon after, Yokozuna won his title back from the Hulkster.He held it until Wrestlemania X, where he was scheudled to fight TWO men in one night: "Born In The USA" Lex Luger, and Bret "The Hitman" hart, who he defeated a year earlier.
Yokozuna didn't fight much after his title runs.
My condolences go out to Rodey Anoia (Yokozuna's real name), and his family, the wrestlers in it include His Uncle Afa the Wild Samoan, and his cousins, the most famous of which being The Rock and Rikishi, among others.
hometown.aol.com /unclephizzill/myhomepage/yokozuna.html   (321 words)

  
 WWE: Inside WWE > Title History > WWE Championship > 19930404 - Yokozuna
Hart was then able to apply the Sharpshooter on Yokozuna’s massive legs, but Mr.
Yokozuna’s first WWE Championship reign would go on to last only a matter of minutes.
All World Wrestling Entertainment programming, talent names, images, likenesses, slogans, wrestling moves, and logos are the exclusive property of World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. ECW is a trademark of WWE Libraries, Inc. All other trademarks, logos and copyrights are the property of their respective owners.
www.wwe.com /inside/titlehistory/wwechampionship/304454133   (266 words)

  
 Yokozuna Class
Afraid that their battleship building program might be altogether curtailed, the 'fl shoes' proposed to combine the materials set aside for the upcoming Settsu and Yamato to make a super battleship of nearly 90,000 tons, and to dedicate the leftovers for a light carrier conversion to appease the aviators.
The resulting BB Yokozuna had the stretched hull and machinery of Yonaga but with additional bulges and tonnage that reduced speed.
The Satsuma became known in the Japanese press as 'Sumo' and, of course, the Yokozuna was the 'Grand Champion.' Together they formed Battleship Division 1 as the Philippines was being threatened.
www.combinedfleet.com /furashita/yokozu_f.htm   (481 words)

  
 Beating Japanese wrestlers at their own game / But sumo champ from Mongolia isn't popular with purists
He is sumo's only reigning "yokozuna," top- ranked in a sport that never has more than four yokozuna at a time, a wrestler many call the best Japan has seen in the postwar era.
(The yokozuna is accustomed to having people laugh at his jokes.) By contrast, he says, his summers spent on the steppes of Mongolia, sleeping in a tent, herding sheep and riding horses, were just the stuff for nurturing the toughness sumo requires.
A yokozuna not only performs a ceremonial role of chasing evil spirits from the ring before a fight but is also the master to an entourage of other rikishi.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/02/27/MNG31BGMTD1.DTL   (1904 words)

  
 Yokozuna
From the get-go, Yokozuna was a hot commodity doing tours in Mexico and eventually in Japan (known then as Kokina Maximus) where he teamed up with cousin Samu to win numerous titles.
From 1992 to 1996 this giant destroyed all comers as he easily beat all of the top tier WWE stars holding 2 WWE World Heavyweight Titles (beat Hulk Hogan and Bret Hart for them) and 2 WWE World Tag Team Titles (with the late, great Owen Hart).
YOKOZUNA IN BATTLE WITH FORMER WWE STAR CHARLES FULTON IN YONKER NY.
www.wildsamoan.com /yokozuna.htm   (230 words)

  
 Web Dictionary - Yokozuna-Words/Yokozuna-PukiWiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Owen Hart and Yokozuna, The Smokin' Gunns, Hartford, CT, 04-02-95.
Although the "Yokozuna" character was portrayed as a Japanese champion sumo wrestler...
The Yokozuna - A Retrospective - goo Sumo
pukiwikimod.com /xbox/modules/pukiwiki/474.html   (689 words)

  
 WWE: Inside WWE > Title History > WWE Championship > 19930613 - Yokozuna
After being embarrassed by Hollywood Hogan at WrestleMania IX, Yokozuna challenged the new champion to a match at the 1993 King of the Ring pay-per-view.
Yokozuna then added insult to injury and used Hogan’s leg drop to finish off the champ.
Yokozuna's impressive reign as WWE Champion lasted more than nine months.
www.wwe.com /inside/titlehistory/wwechampionship/304454129   (199 words)

  
 Japan Omnibus - Sports - Sumo - The Hanada Dynasty
She talked about the life of an "okami," who is a kind of substitute mother for the wrestlers and has to cook and care for them seven days a week.
After suffering an injury on the tenth day of the September basho in 1999, Wakanohana had become only the second Yokozuna to suffer makekoshi (a losing record) in a 15-day tournament and talk was rife of his imminent retirement at just 28 years of age.
He will be remembered as one of the great yokozunas but questions will remain about what could have been.
www.japan-zone.com /omnibus/hanada.shtml   (1184 words)

  
 Profile   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
- Yokozuna, now being managed by Fuji and Jim Cornette, Yokozuna defeated Hulk Hogan at the 1993 King of the Ring in Dayton, OH to regain the WWF title.
- Yokozuna defeated Lex Luger at Wrestlemania X in New York, NY.
- With Fuji and Cornette in their corners, Yokozuna and Owen Hart defeated the Smokin' Gunns at Wrestlemania XI in Hartford, CT to capture the WWF World Tag Team title.
www.gerweck.net /yokozuna.htm   (241 words)

  
 PhotoGuide Japan/Akebono Tribute/Ozeki Promotion
Kokonoe oyakata (former yokozuna Chiyonofuji), also on the same program as a commentator, mentioned that the first yusho was always the sweetest and most memorable.
If he became yokozuna, he would have most likely faltered like recent yokozunas Futahaguro, Onokuni, and Asahifuji and be forced to retire prematurely.
Since all the yokozuna have retired and no one can meet these standards right now, professional sumo is without a yokozuna for the first time in 62 years.
photojpn.org /exp/sumo/akebono3.html   (2723 words)

  
 AskWI - Yokozuna   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Answer: The late Rodney "Yokozuna" Anoia was born in Polynesia.
Yokozuna was of Samoan decent and was the nephew of The Wild Samoans and was a cousin of Rikishi Phatu.
When he came to the WWE, Vince McMahon decided they wanted to bill him from Japan so that is where the confusion comes from.
www.wrestlinginformer.net /askwi_-_yokozuna.htm   (142 words)

  
 CNN/SI - World Sumo - Musashimaru to be promoted to yokozuna - Monday May 24, 1999 05:49 PM
Posted: Monday May 24, 1999 05:49 PM Biggest fish in the sea: After Winning two consecutive tournaments as ozeki, Musashimaru is looking for a promotion to yokozuna.
TOKYO (AP) -- Hawaii-born sumo wrestler has been recommended for promotion to yokozuna, the top rank in the traditional Japanese sport, a special committee of sumo experts said Monday.
Winning two consecutive tournaments as ozeki is one of the key requirements for promotion to yokozuna.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /more/sumo/news/1999/05/24/musashimaru_yokozuna   (347 words)

  
 asahi.com:Man About Sports: Lack of yokozuna rivalry impoverishes 21st-century sumo - ENGLISH   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
If no one joins Asa soon to create a period of shared yokozuna greatness, this decade will be the first without one since the six-basho-a-year system was implemented in 1957.
Sumo is now almost two-thirds of the way through this first decade of the new millennium with no yokozuna rivalry to call its own.
On top of that, the yokozuna seems to have regained his fire and focus.
www.asahi.com /english/Herald-asahi/TKY200609140124.html   (708 words)

  
 CNN/SI - World Sumo - New yokozuna Wakanohana opens tournament with victory - Thursday October 14, 1999 08:25 PM
The two are the first brothers ever to hold yokozuna rank at the same time.
Wakanohana's promotion also meant there were three yokozunas in a tournament for the first time since the 1991 Nagoya Grand Tournament.
The third yokozuna, Hawaii-born yokozuna Akebono, who has won nine tournaments, held off komusubi (junior champion second class) Kaio's pulling attempt and sent him out.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /more/sumo/news/1998/07/05/sumo_roundup   (377 words)

  
 Wwf Yokozuna   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
...who was in the WWF as "Yokozuna" in the early 90´s.He is from a traditional wrestling family, his father and uncle were in the WWF already...
...Yokozuna was kept on the WWF roster for months following his last ring appearance at the Survivor Series where he.....Vince McMahon feared for the worse when he fired Yokozuna from the...
...Il 23 Ottobre 2000 l'ex campione del mondo WWF Yokozuna è stato trovato morto in un albergo di.....Nella prima edizione di King of The Ring Yokozuna sconfisse proprio Hulk Hogan nel...
www.steinerwrestling.com /wwf-yokozuna.html   (310 words)

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