I want your memories...

[Square]

Ok so bassicly I wasnt a fan untill 2001/2 and one of the things I wonder about is what was it like watching Over the Edge 99. If you watch it please tell me your memories and if you were there live PLEASE tell your story.

[Mr. Mediocre]

I was just thinking about this literally a few minutes ago.

All I can remember from Over the Edge was that it was one of the most surreal shows I ever watched. I still can't blame Vince for keeping the show going, but I really wish he hadn't.

[plushtar]

I was watching Star Wars Episode I on that night. When I got back, my mother told me that Owen Hart got hurt really bad. I didn't think too muc about it until I saw something on MSNBC a few hours later declaring Owen Hart to be dead. Later that night, the local NBC affiliate re-aired a WWF interview produced just before Royal Rumble '99 which featured Owen Hart and D'Lo Brown calling himself a whale for some reason. It became really sad the next night as I watched every wrestler from Mark Henry to Jeff Jarrett to HHH break down while trying to remember Owen. Out of sadness, I couldn't watch any more so I simply turned off the TV instead of just changing the channel like I always do.

[pathogen]

Myeslf and by bro were watching and smoking weed, then it happened and we were in shock for the rest of the night. It was horrible. It took a few minutes to work out that it wasn't an angle, the we were more shocked. Then we herad that he'd died, and all bets were off.

[Branimal]

I was a paper-boy back then..I was doing my morning route when my other friend who's paper route intersected with mine told me that Owen Hart was dead. Its pretty ironic now that I think about it. I was delivering the news to people..it was in the paper..yet I didn't notice it.

My initial re-action was "So..The Godfather beat him pretty bad did he?" and he said "No, he literally died". It was shocking to say the least.

I had to go away that weekend for some family trip and it was all I could think about.

[Nan Flanagan]

I was watching the PPV with some friends and when they cut away to that promo. I just had some weird feeling something wasn't right. But I shrugged it off, but then it cut back to a very sombre looking JR and then he said it. My initial reaction was shock, then I was just sat there stunned for the rest of the night. Not knowing what to say or do.
I still have the PPV on tape, but haven't watched it since. I don't think I ever will again. But I refuse to tape over it.

The next night with the Raw is Owen show was when I just openly wept. Everything that was bottled up was just unleashed.

[Hiroshi Hase]

I watched the first match at my friend's house as I just got back from working at Burger King that day and I gave him the tape to tape the show for me. I watched the tag match with X-Pac/Kane and D-Lo/Henry and then I went home and said I'd watch the rest afterschool the next day.

I got home and was watching some of that Jesse Ventura documentary on NBC, when my mom came in the room and told me about a wrestler who died tonight, I just figured it was on some indy show somewhere, but then she mentioned Owen Hart and I was shocked as hell. I watched the news broadcast and they confirmed it, he fell to his death at Kemper Arena before his scheduled match with Godfather.

That's all everyone was talking about the day after at school.
I watched the tape my friend made for me and Ross confirmed his death during the show and it was hard to watch.

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jezebelle said:

I was watching the PPV with some friends and when they cut away to that promo. I just had some weird feeling something wasn't right. But I shrugged it off, but then it cut back to a very sombre looking JR and then he said it. My initial reaction was shock, then I was just sat there stunned for the rest of the night. Not knowing what to say or do.
I still have the PPV on tape, but haven't watched it since. I don't think I ever will again. But I refuse to tape over it.

The next night with the Raw is Owen show was when I just openly wept. Everything that was bottled up was just unleashed.

Nice sig, Chthonic owns.

[twiggy101]

I wasn't a fan then but I heard about it on the news.

[wahoowah11]

I used to go to my cousins house and watch the ppvs. I stayed home and my mom told me the next morning. I was shocked.

[bobolebowski]

I remember wrestling being at the height of its popularity so everyone at school was always talking about Nitro or Raw or the recent PPV.

I remember watching the PPV live and then having to cut it off to study and then falling asleep. I was only in the 5th grade so this is really making me feel old. I wake up in the morning and my mom takes me to school and I have yet to watch all of the pay per view. I was running late so I didnt have time to watch the ppv before school because I would usually watch the end of whatever ppv it was when I was getting ready for school.

Well I get in the car and I turn the radio to 104.7 here in Columbia and they would do the news real briefly in the morning on their show The Morning Rush. And I still remember pulling out of the drive way of my house and hearing these EXACT words on the radio.

"Professional wrestler Owen Hart, the younger brother of former WWF Champion Bret "Hitman" Hart, died tragically last night in an accident on the Over the Edge pay per view, when he fell 75 feet from the ceiling of the Kemper Arena during the live Pay Per View. Hart is survived by his three children and his wife. Vince McMahon, owner of the World Wrestling Federation continued the live Pay Per View. While Hart was rushed to the hospital being declared dead on arrival."

My mouth dropped and I turned to my mom and her mouth dropped too and I was just so shocked that I felt almost sick. Everyone at school was buzzing about it. The first thing a buddy of mine said when I got out of my car was "Did you hear about Owen Hart?" Then it all sank in when I watched Raw that night. And Ill admit it had me in tears.

It took me a while before I could have the courage to sit and watch the pay per view back too, its hard to sit down and watch it when you know what your getting yourself into. I remember the butterflies in my stomach were racing watching the tape back not knowing if they had shown the fall or not.

Now when I watch it back though its a half ass show after the thing with Owen happens. Which is COMPLETELY understandable. I wouldnt be able to wrestle after something like that happened either. It kind of would of been better to call off the PPV after that happened. I hear Vince did it cause he didnt want people to riot but the live crowd I hear was furious for not being informed of what had happened.

[Mister Pigwell]

I didn't order the PPV but I was listening to it via scramble vision (god I miss "watching" PPV in that manner) and it was... surreal. :-(

RAW is Owen the next night was VERY rough but VERY awesome at the same time.

[Zutroy]

When I saw Jeff Jarrett I knew it wasn't good. I was crying til I had no more tears left while watching RAW the next night.

[wolfmoon103100]

I've been watching wrestling sence 85. It sometimes gits hard to remeber everything.

[General Zod]

As a fan of this industry for over 30 years, I can honestly tell you that it was the most surreal moment I have ever witnessed. Honestly, it didn't even completely sink in for me until the next night's RAW tribute show.

It was the first time a pro wrestling show ever brought a tear to my eye. Sadly, it wouldn't be the last.

I honestly think, looking back on everything now, that was the night that the heart of the wrestling fan inside me died a little bit. Not because I was deeply saddened by the loss of a man I never knew. But because the industry I had grown to love finally took things too far. The stunts finally got to be so far removed from what the product *should* have been, that there was no turning back, regardless of whose death we were dealing with.

Looking back on everything, I'd say that's the most poingiant and acurate assesment of my own feelings towards this inustry I've ever made. If Owen had not fallen (and not died that night), someone else would have eventually, in the name of one upsmanship and "sports entertainment".

[Tyfo]

I didnt see the PPV, so I was unaware of it that night. The next morning when I woke up, I called this wrestling hotline that usually had PPV and show results the next morning. Instead it said something like, due to last nights events, we are delaying the update until further notice and more information is known.

I thought it was something with the guy who recorded the updates or something.

Then I turned on the tv and started getting ready for school, and I believe they talked about it on Sportscenter or ESPNews, whichever I had on.

I couldnt believe it, and then when my mom brought in the paper, it was right there as well. I remember that day at school being really hard for me. Of course at that time, everybody and their dog was a wrestling fan, but only my best friend and myself were long time fans at our school who had actually watched Owen for about 8-9 years at that point. So it hit us a lot harder then everyone else there talking about it.

That was the hardest day I can recall at school, until just last month when my health class was talking about steroids and other drugs and the professor brings up Chris Benoit. I went into defense mode, because for whatever reason, no matter what, I still cant handle people talking about Chris Benoit in that way. And im tired of people STILL blaming it all on steroids.

[MNM's Official "Fixer"]

I didn't watch OTE. But I remember my Mom telling me that he had died the morning after the ppv. It didn't really bother me.

[Zutroy]

darthfaker said:

If Owen had not fallen (and not died that night), someone else would have eventually, in the name of one upsmanship and "sports entertainment".

That couldn't have been said better. The truest statement i've ever read about what pro wrestling has become.

[The Ichi]

I had just gotten back into wrestling again after a few year hiatus and because I was only 15 I had to have the show taped and I would watch it before leaving for school the next morning. It was an extremely surreal experience when JR announced his death, and I could tell it was real by the tone in JR's voice and the look on Jerry Lawler's face. I always walked to school with my friend who also loved wrestling (infact it was him that got me back into it). I told him about Owen and he didn't believe me, but then people at school were talking about it. Some idiots were saying it was part of a storyline but I knew better. I then watched Raw is Owen around my friends house a couple of days later and we both sort of cried...very surreal considering, at that age, we mostly just watched wrestling for fun and joked around about it a lot. This was all too real though.

Every year I like to read the chapters in Mick Foley's and The Rock's books on what kind of a guy Owen was. It's too tragic for words that seemingly one of the greatest guys both in and out of the ring had to go like that.

[Ringmaster]

i was sitting on my couch(expecting a call from my freind who was at the event) and at the same time he called i saw all the paramedics in the ring,...

[ note this quote reflects the emptional feelings of a fan who just witnessed one of his favouritew wresstlers plumet to his death, i apologize for its vulgarity] "Dude im not *hiting you owen hart just fell 50 fu**ing feet.."

the next night he came over and showed me the video he took, it remains to this day in a box never to be opened agian.