Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Hart Foundation
When the accident happened, a Blue Blazer interview was being shown on the Titantron and the home audience was also shown this interview. When the interview ended, the TV cameras just showed wide angle shots of the crowd and arena while Jim Ross and Jerry Lawler explained to the television audience what happened. Later in the show, it was announced to the television audience that Owen had died. The audience in the arena was never told that. The show continued that night but the next night on RAW was the Owen Hart tribute show.
To commemorate the eigth anniversary of this terrible tragedy, I have created a hub of content based upon a faction he was once a part of, the Hart Foundation. At various times the group consisted of Owen, his brother Bret, his brother-in-laws Davey Boy Smith and Jim Neidhart, Brian Pillman (trained by Owen's father) and Jimmy Hart (no relation). Sadly, of the five men that were a part of the 1997 version of the group, three of them are no longer with us. However, the Hart family legacy may soon be carried on by a new generation of Hart's. Harry Smith and Nattie Neidhart have both signed WWE developmental deals while Teddy Hart is the most controversial figure on the independent scene and was recently seen on the short-lived MTV show Wrestling Society X.
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do you know which schools owen hart went to?????
spencer downey
Owen Hart was trained by his family in their basement, the infamous Stu Hart Dungeon.
- Eric
I was at the event where Owen Hart fall to his death. The interview was playing but the arena was not dark. When he fell it was plain as day. When he hit the vast majority of people around me knew this was not an act or part of the show and something seriously has happened. I remember it seemed like forever for someone to come out and attend to him. First several refs came out and then medical personal. Several minutes before a gerney was brought out and it was MAST Ambulance that brought it in. Not a WWE (WWF at the time) EMS worker. It still bothers me when I look back that the WWE doesn’t (or didn’t) have any medical staff on sight for such events. Little kids just saw one of there heros pass before them. They had to be subjected to that imagery is pretty hard as an adult for the amount of time it took. They never did mention it in Kemper Arena that Owen had died. I didn’t think they had to it was pretty evident what we just witnessed. Hart died in the ring that night. However event staff did tell us in one on ones that he was declared died upon arrival at Truman Hosptial.
Hi Conrad,
I’m sorry you had to see that in person.
This might sound weird, but over the years, I have heard different things about the lights from several people claiming to be there. I can only assume that the shock of seeing something like that has people remembering different things, kind of like when several people witness a car accident or crime and have different stories about what happened.
Just to clear up any confusion about the light issue, I’m deleting all references to the lights on the site.
Eric