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[1993-02-15-WWF-Raw] Ted DiBiase vs Brutus Beefcake


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Last few seconds of Brutus's comeback match. IRS smacks Beefcake with the briefcase for the DQ. IRS wants to hit Beefcake in the face with the briefcase, but Jimmy Hart tries to stop him, cementing his babyface turn. Kind of a flat angle, but it did set up Hogan's return.

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Jimmy had tried to talk Money Inc. out of taking the match the previous week, so I guess there was a shred of build to that. I was hoping Beefcake's sob story interview from that episode was on here, if only to see if I remembered that "SO KILL YOURSELF!" from the audience correctly.

 

Beefcake gets sent to the ropes and IRS catches him with the briefcase to draw a DQ. Hart tries to stop the beatdown and gets sent to the floor. This angle isn't badly done, and Money Inc. and IRS in particular are pretty good in selling just how much joy they get out of destroying Beefcake. But man, the lack of heat is pretty astounding, especially considering the generally rowdy Manhattan Center audience.

 

Vince does what he does best, which is sell angles. He even goes into Owen Mode (or perhaps more tastefully, Pillman with a Gun Mode). The bloodstain on the mat was a nice touch.

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IRS nails Beefcake's rebuilt face with the briefcase for a DQ and they lay into him afterwards. Jimmy Hart tries to stop them, but and IRS throws him out of the ring before crushing Beefcake's face with the case. Dibiase laughing at everything is great. Talk about Beefcake holding his face together, clearly working an angle off of his parasailing accident.

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Given Hogan's apparent demand that Jimmy (who had become his real-life business manager by that point) also accompany him to ringside, I don't know what else Vince could have done. He had no time for an elaborate turn on Money Inc., with Beefcake's interview taking place one week and the match the next, plus he probably didn't want to build too much, not only to keep the surprise but to cover himself in case Hogan backed out at the last second.

 

Given those parameters, this was good. Teddy had been a midcarder for too long to draw the heat he probably should have, and Rotundo just doesn't do it for me in that godawful shirt and tie. But Jimmy did the best he could to make it believable that he cared about Beefcake, and Vince and Randy were great on commentary, selling shock that even a hardened heel like Teddy could be so heartless and unfeeling as to laugh at the re-destruction of another man's face.

 

I'm not sure where the blood came from either; I don't think that Beefcake's doctors would have let him blade even if he'd wanted to. Regardless, it was a needed touch, even if they used blood capsules or ketchup.

 

I noticed that there was no Heenan for this segment, and that was just as well. The Bobby Heenan character simply isn't capable of sympathy for another human being, and to hear him try to express some would have just exposed the whole thing as completely phony

 

For those of you who might have seen the whole match, did Beefcake come out in the smock with the shears? I find it difficult to believe that the Beefcake character could have actually been thinking about cutting anyone's hair on a night like this.

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