Hell In A Sell: How I Remember Owen Hart's Death And Other Real Events In Wrestling History Wrestling With Heels On podcast

Hell in a Sell: How I Remember Owen Hart's Death and Other Real Events in Wrestling History

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EPISODE SUMMARY

When WWE television commentator Jim Ross told the millions of fans watching the OVER THE EDGE pay-per-view event, “THIS IS NOT PART OF THE ENTERTAINMENT HERE TONIGHT. THIS IS AS REAL AS REAL CAN BE HERE,” the veil that shades what is real in wrestling from reality, as the rest of us know it, was lifted.

Shortly after the accident in the ring, with all the gravitas befitting the circumstance, Jim Ross announces Owen Hart had died from his unharnessed 78-foot fall into the ring. One would think the tragedy of a 34-year-old husband and father of two plunging to his death before a live audience at the Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Missouri would be enough to bring the show to a screeching halt, but it was not.

Wrestlers continued fighting each other on the still bloodstained mat as if nothing disastrous had happened mere minutes before their matches. Whether or not these grapplers knew of Owen’s death makes not a bit of difference. They had received their marching orders. The show must go on.

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