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Monday Night Raw - Monday April 5th 1993 Vince McMahon and Bobby "The Brain" Heenan welcome everyone to Monday Night Raw, following the shocking conclusion of the previous nights WrestleMania IX. Standing in the ring is none other than Mean Gene Okerlund. Bret Hart's music hits, and the Hitman makes his way out to the ring to a very mixed reception. Mean Gene asks the question that is "on everybody's lips". Why did Bret do that to Hogan, and let his fans down. Bret said that as far as he was concerned, he hasn't let anybody down, especially the fans that stuck with him over the past year while Hulk Hogan was getting a sun tan. As far as Bret is concerned, he was let down by the referee for failing to see the salt thrown in his eyes. As for what he did with Hogan, Bret was not going to let the Hulkster pull the wool over the Hitman's fans' eyes. Bret carried the belt and defended it week in, week out for six months in Hogan's absence and Hogan was not about to roll back in after one night back in the WWF and come away with the very thing that Bret has worked hard to win and keep. And if the fans have a problem with that, then maybe they never really were fans of the Excellence of Execution to begin with. Bret closes with the fact that he fights for the people, and Hogan does not. Next up, having re-signed for the WWF, The British Bulldog made his return to TV with a quick and dominant victory over Damien Demento with a Running Powerslam. Owen Hart and Koko B.Ware defeated The Beverly Brothers in a tag team match. Owen was particularly impressive and picked up the win with a missile dropkick from the top turnbuckle. Ric Flair was backstage with Sean Mooney. Sean asked Ric Flair why he had returned after losing a loser leaves town match against Mr. Perfect. Flair said that he had indeed left the WWF, but President Jack Tunney had resigned him to a new deal. A deal so ludicrous that it allowed Ric to take stylin', profilin', limousine riding, jet flying, kiss stealing, wheelin' n' dealin' all to the next level. The Nature Boy is back baby. And he's got a little payback to dish out. In eight man tag team action, Money Inc. and The Headshrinkers faced the Steiner Brothers and The Smoking Guns. In a relatively short match, Ted DiBiase locked in the Million Dollar Dream on Bart Gunn and the newcomer tapped out quickly. In another debut, Dean Malenko came out to no reception from the crowd for his match with the Kamikaze Kid. A good back and forth match ended when Malenko locked in a Texas Cloverleaf. Razor Ramon faced the plucky Virgil and won in dominant fashion with the Razor's Edge Well, you know something Mean Gene,...that can only mean Hulk Hogan is promo-ing it up backstage. Hogan immediately challenged Yokozuna to a rematch, tonight for the WWF title. Gene asked what about Bret Hart? Hogan told Gene that he understands why Bret did what he did. It was in the heat of the moment. And when Hogan becomes the WWF champion, he will totally give Hart a match for the belt. Mr. Perfect faced Rick "The Model" Martel in one on one action. Martel was holding his own before Flair came to ringside. Martel and Mr. perfect tumbled into the referee at a point in the match, and the referee took a none too serious bump. Flair picked up a steel chair and tried to hit Perfect, but Mr. Perfect ducked a flair nailed Rick Martel. The Model turned around right into a Perfect Plex as the referee recovered. Mr. Perfect won. Flair backed off up the aisle, mouthing off at Mr. perfect, who had a smug look on his face. Yokozuna and Mr. Fuji came to the ring to answer Hulk Hogan's challenge. Mr. Fuji hung the Japanese flag by ringside as Yokozuna climbed into the ring with his WWF title. Mr. Fuji said that Yokozuna would be the greatest champion of all time, and would face Hogan right now. The crowd went wild as a referee sprinted to the ring. Hulk Hogan's music hit and the Hulkster ran to the ring. It wasn't a very technical match as they brawled back and forth. Hulk Hogan had the match won after hitting the legdrop of doom as Mr. Fuji climbed up on the apron and distracted the referee. Hogan stood up from the pin attempt as Bret Hart appeared out of nowhere with the Japanese flag on a pole and broke it over Hogan's back while the referee was distracted. Yokozuna recovered and belly to belly suplexed Hogan before dragging him over to the corner and hitting a Banzai Drop. Yokozuna won the match and held the tilte aloft as Vince McMahon asked "Why Bret?" and Raw went off air.