🗻 Squash Match Spotlight: Yokozuna vs. Scott Taylor & Bert Centeno
📺 WWF Superstars – January 8, 1994
📍 Lowell, Massachusetts
🎤 Commentary: Vince McMahon & Stan Lane
⏱️ Duration: 2 minutes
💣 A MASSIVE START TO ‘94
1994 began with a boom — or more accurately, a splat.
Scott Taylor and Bert Centeno stepped into the ring with Yokozuna, and let’s just say... they didn’t make it out the same.
With Mr. Fuji and Jim Cornette lurking ringside, Yokozuna wasted no time imposing his will on the much smaller opponents. This wasn’t a match. This was a warning shot for the rest of the WWF.
🎯 MATCH HIGHLIGHTS
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Bert Centeno opens… and is flattened immediately.
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Tag to Taylor, who tries to use speed — and gets caught mid-air with a clothesline that nearly twists him inside-out.
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The jobbers briefly attempt a double-team, but Yoko no-sells it with a Samoan growl and a double shoulder block.
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A monstrous Banzai Drop on Taylor finishes it. Centeno didn’t even get tagged back in.
🎙️ COMMENTARY SNAPSHOT
McMahon: “Yokozuna may be more dangerous than ever in 1994.”
Stan Lane: “That’s two-for-one on the Banzai menu tonight!”
📼 LEGACY NOTES
This match is a classic example of Yokozuna’s post-championship booking: still dominant, still terrifying, and able to take out two men with theatrical ease. For Taylor, it was an early test that he’d pass years later under a new gimmick. For Centeno… well, at least he tried.
🧠 Legacy Bonus:
Scott Taylor would go on to reinvent himself years later as Scotty 2 Hotty, but here in 1994, he was just another victim of Yokozuna’s path of destruction.
⭐ SQUASH STATS
| Winner | Yokozuna |
| Losers | Scott Taylor & Bert Centeno |
| Finish | Banzai Drop on Taylor (Pinfall) |
| Time | 2 minutes |
| Aired | January 8, 1994 |
| Taped | December 15, 1993 (Lowell, MA) |
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