In honor of 13th anniversary of Owen Hart's passing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pdDHLnTL4Q&feature=related

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I always enjoyed that PPV in Kansas City where the Blue Blazer descended from the rafters. Although, he never did wrestle that night. Must have just been an appearance.

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Lots of good Owen Hart memories. Never got the push he should have in the E. Loved the whole deal with him and DX and them calling him a Nugget. He played that stuff off great.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

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Smiling after convincing his mom to throw in the towel in the Bob Backlund match

That was awesome.

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Truly my enduring image of him is gripping that towel around his neck smiling


just like David Carradine

Owen vs. The 1-2-3 Kid. Best opening to a match ever! Skip to 2:08. It works on so many levels.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1XueVsn2s4

You two are the absolute worst kind of people ... and by 'you two' I mean 'we three'.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

wanna make it a foursome DT? we can go play basketball and we can use your natural gerthiness to set screens for, well, the 250 bus that goes down dempster by the courts =)

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I was watching it as it happened. My friend and I thought it was a gimmick. Totally shocked when real stuff happens on a PPV

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

Me too. I had 3 other guys splitting it. The one guy who was running late was a huge Owen fan.

I greeted him with "Way to miss the first half hour. Pretty sure your guy Owen just died"

This promo from Raw Is War, 12/15/97 between Vince McMahon and Owen Hart. This was Owen's first public promo since Montreal. Right here, he proved he could really work the mic when he wanted to.

This was their opportunity to finally give Owen the ball as a main-eventer, but the most that came out of this was a great match with Shawn two weeks later on Raw that ended in a DQ. After that, he was quickly shoved into a European Title feud with Triple H and then back into the midcard for good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=860LzvYSW80

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Kid Cairo's Boers & Bernstein YouTube Channel

Kid Cairo: 2013 March Madness Tournament Winner!

"Cowabunga? Cowa fucking piece of dog shit! This game is diarrhea coming out of my dick!"

Real good stuff there. I never understood the knock on Owen that he could not work the mic. He could do anything in the business.

And I know we cannot play "what ifs", but if they made him a main eventer at that point like they should have then he would have never been in that stupid blazer gimmick in 99. He could have had a GREAT run with HBK at the end of 97 and into 98. What a shame...

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Here is some good stuff from X-Pac on Owen (Language NSFW)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z6AP77w5m4

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Was that the SNES version where you had to use the shoulder buttons to win the grapple? Great game.

Also, XPAC on that video is a tad bit, uh, messed up.

I do the what-ifs all the time.

Shawn never would've broken his back on that casket, because he would not have been feuding with Owen instead of Undertaker. Thus, Shawn would've never found God because he wouldn't have been out for four years and he would've likely remained the brash asshole that he was.

Also, if Shawn had never missed those four years, he would've retired much sooner. I don't think he would've made it to 2003, which means we'd have never seen Shawn mix it up with Jericho, Cena, Orton, Shelton, Rey, etc.

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Kid Cairo's Boers & Bernstein YouTube Channel

Kid Cairo: 2013 March Madness Tournament Winner!

"Cowabunga? Cowa fucking piece of dog shit! This game is diarrhea coming out of my dick!"

Good points regarding Shawn. Just wish we could have got to see Owen get the push he deserved.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

The WCW vs nWo were my favorite wrestling games.

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I'll always remember his Wrestlemania X match with Bret.

He and the British Bulldog were a damn good tag team as well.

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"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." ~ H.L. Mencken

I didn't think you kids still played SNES what with the XBox 360 and it's HD graphics.

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Never had an SNES...only played Sega Genesis until I got a PS1

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I was in St. Louis for RAW the night after he died. Such an odd experience. Even more to depressing to think that was thirteen years ago today.

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some good links up there. good stuff.

Wrestlemania X is my Owen moment.

He was programmed with HBK after the screw job and HBK refused to work with him.

Example #542 of why HBK is a selfish sob.

Also still trying to figure out why Shawn thought calling Owen a piece of shit was good heat.

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Seriously? It was part of the deal for that time period. It was actually tame compared to some of the other things they did to draw heat.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."