Loss Posted February 18, 2011 Report Share Posted February 18, 2011 Talk about it here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted June 29, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 29, 2011 DiBiase's last match ever. It's funny how over the 1-2-3 Kid was at this point, as DiBiase is still getting the chants months later at an indy show. DiBiase didn't have a particularly strong 1993, and this is continuation of that. Funk looks good though, and this is still worth watching for historic value. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cox Posted June 29, 2011 Report Share Posted June 29, 2011 Did Mark Curtis manage DiBiase in this one? I thought I had read somewhere years ago that he did, which made me want to see the match since I've never seen Curtis' managerial work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted June 30, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 30, 2011 Mark Curtis is at ringside, yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerryvonKramer Posted October 23, 2012 Report Share Posted October 23, 2012 Loss - I've just read on cage match that DiBiase had 3 tag matches matches in November 93 for All Japan: 13.11.1993: Akira Taue, Giant Baba & Toshiaki Kawada vs. Stan Hansen, Ted DiBiase & Tracy Smothers AJPW Real World Tag League 1993 - Tag 1 @ Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan 14.11.1993: Stan Hansen & Ted DiBiase vs. Richard Slinger & Tracy Smothers AJPW Real World Tag League 1993 - Tag 2 @ Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan 15.11.1993: Stan Hansen & Ted DiBiase vs. Abdullah The Butcher & Kimala II AJPW Real World Tag League 1993 - Tag 3 @ Toda, Saitama, Japan However, Wikipedia and all other sources say that only the 14th November match happened and that DiBiase was replaced by Baba in the tournament. Either way, the Funk match was not his very last. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Ridge Posted January 20, 2014 Report Share Posted January 20, 2014 Was weird to see DiBiase wrestle in such a small time looking show. Not that some of the audiences for WWF were huge at their tapings. Some back and forth chops but not much else in the match. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteF3 Posted February 9, 2014 Report Share Posted February 9, 2014 The Million Dollar Man gimmick barely worked in some of the industrial basements Raw was being taped in--it works even less in a high school gym. Dr. Mark Curtis isn't the most inspiring manager for him, either. There is some okay work here but overall it's not much of a match, and the finish is rather cheap. Funk going nuts on Curtis afterward is the most fun part. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garretta Posted February 8, 2017 Report Share Posted February 8, 2017 Actually, Curtis started out as Terry's manager and was "bought" by Teddy early in the match, at least from what I could tell. This wasn't a whole lot, but Teddy still busted out a few moves we hadn't seen from the Million Dollar Man character, including the figure-four and a nice-looking Jake Roberts-style DDT. We saw the Funk spinning toehold from Terry, and it looked like he piledrove Teddy on the floor at one point, which is a dangerous bump to take for someone with a legitimate neck injury like Teddy had. The fini9sh was to be expected; I doubt that either man really wanted to put the other over cleanly in front of such a small crowd. I know this was a handheld, but even for a handheld the quality of the camerawork was subpar. Not only did the camera jiggle continuously and go out of focus, but there was no attempt to follow the match outside the ring, which meant that I had to guess what was going on out there. Philly-area wrestling fans should know by now that their city brings out the extreme in almost everyone, and to be prepared to go anywhere in the building to follow the action if need be. This would eliminate things like seeing Terry give Teddy a piledriver on the concrete, then Teddy turning up with the advantage a minute or so later. (Bensalem is a suburb of Philadelphia; among other things, it houses the area's thoroughbred racetrack, Philadelphia Park. or just Parx, as it's now known.) Mark sure took a pounding from Terry after the match; I thought his head would wear holes in the announce table. One question, though: What was he doing in Philly on a Saturday night? I'm sure SMW was running a spot show somewhere. Could it be that whatever promotion was running this show could afford to pay more than Corny could for an evening's work? It looked like Tod Gordon was the bald guy who comforted Terry after the match was over. ECW was still an NWA member promotion at the time. so that wouldn't exactly be shocking news. Still, isn't it a bit weird that two NWA promotions ran one city at the same time, especially as late as 1993? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soup23 Posted May 26, 2017 Report Share Posted May 26, 2017 Really mundane action that left my mind as soon as the match was over. Dibiase just seemed shot physically and completely mentally checked out. He looked easily like an elder statesmen the next year in the WWF program. Curtis didn't get involved much at all until the end where he takes a bating from Funk. **1/2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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