Former WWE Superstar Ahmed Johnson has claimed that the late Yokozuna was jealous of him once the former Intercontinental Champion arrived.
Johnson, the first African-American Intercontinental Champion, debuted on RAW during an October 1995, episode and would bodyslam the former WWF Champion.
Speaking on “The Ten Count” podcast, Johnson claimed that Yokozuna was jealous of him and that the slam did not help their relationship. He said,
“When I got to the big show, Vince called me and said, ‘I want you to go down, do a run-in, and bodyslam Yoko.’ He didn’t ask me, could I? He just said, ‘I want you to.’ So I went to Yoko and told Yoko that Vince wants me to slam you and Yoko was very jealous of me at that time because he said, ‘I came from nowhere and ended up on the top of the card.’ Yoko said, ‘Well I hope you can get me up because I’m not going to jump for you.’ I was like, ‘Damn. It’s like that, huh?’ So when I got to the ring, I was so fired up, man. It took everything I had to get him up and over, but I did it.”
Johnson would stay with the WWF until early 1998 and would later compete as ‘Big T’ in WCW, where he’d feud with Booker T over the right to use the letter ‘T.’
Yokozuna would die in October 2000, in Liverpool, England at the age of 34 and was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2012.