The Death of Owen Hart in the Ring at Over the Edge Event

[connor]

Originally Posted by Pyramid_Head

No he doesn't. They were showing a vignette when Owen fell. The only footage was the hard cam that was NOT shown during the video of Owen's pre-recorded interview. The footage is in WWE's archives under the "Never to view, duplicate or destroy" category along with the Droz paralysis incident.

The hard cam did catch Owen's impact in the ring, but it was never shown ever. Only a select few have ever seen it since 1999.

Nope, I remember seeing back in like 2006 doing it's rounds on the Internet

[Pyramid_Head]

Originally Posted by connor

Nope, I remember seeing back in like 2006 doing it's rounds on the Internet

No you don't.

[HeyJealousy]

Originally Posted by jdog77

From what I understand, the video DOES exist, and it is vaulted underground somewhere where they have a shitload of videos, basically everything they've ever broadcasted on a physical reel, or vhs. I forgot what the place is called, but it literally looks like an underground cave, somewhere in the middle of nowhere, with lots of security.

I am a long time wrestling fan, and I have searched for this video for decades.. you won't find it. Anybody who says they've seen it, is lying, or they don't know what they're talking about. People tend to show the infamous New Jack bump he took off the scaffold, which was scripted. There are some blurry images of what people suspect was Owen falling, but it's hard to determine. There are definitely images of Owen already down and unconscious in the ring, but even those have been increasingly harder and harder to find as the years go on. There is no blood in the images, except maybe a little on his arm, and a spot in the ring, that they tried to clean, but you can see it throughout the rest of Over the Edge ppv, if you look. If you ever went to a WWE/WWF show back in the day, when there wasn't camera phones, if you tried to bring in your own camera, they would confiscate it, and you could get it back after the event. It was virtually impossible to record something like that. They were very strict, I even remember going to an event with my dad and brother, where they took my soda, because it was considered a concession, and I had to buy one from them, even though my dad told them I have hypoglycemia and needed it. It was either that, or you don't see the show. Things are different now, different world.

Great writeup. I was gonna mention the Vic Grimes and New Jack incident, that was once mistaken for Hart’s video.

[Bren1225]

Unless someone had an actual camera in the arena the wwe has the only footage. Some confuse the vick grimes incident with owens

[DoinLife]

Was there an autopsy? Yes I get the fall killed him, thank you, but I would like to see if there was even a chance of saving him.

[Pyramid_Head]

Originally Posted by DoinLife

Was there an autopsy? Yes I get the fall killed him, thank you, but I would like to see if there was even a chance of saving him.

This is what I found, not the actual autopsy but it does tell us that Owen had no chance of survival.

The cause of death was later revealed to be internal bleeding from blunt force trauma. The impact severed his aorta, resulting in Hart bleeding to death just minutes later

[dankboosh]

Originally Posted by connor

Nope, I remember seeing back in like 2006 doing it's rounds on the Internet

No you most certainly did not.

[Trucked up]

I did see a video that was supposedly a cell phone or hand held camera of some type taken by someone actually there in the crowd, it wasn't the best quality because he was a distance away but definitely did look authentic.

[N*E*R*D]

Originally Posted by Trucked up

I did see a video that was supposedly a cell phone or hand held camera of some type taken by someone actually there in the crowd, it wasn't the best quality because he was a distance away but definitely did look authentic.

You didn't. There is no fan footage that exists of the fall. Definitely not a cell phone pic. In 1999

[CatBatMan]

Originally Posted by jdog77

From what I understand, the video DOES exist, and it is vaulted underground somewhere where they have a shitload of videos, basically everything they've ever broadcasted on a physical reel, or vhs. I forgot what the place is called, but it literally looks like an underground cave, somewhere in the middle of nowhere, with lots of security.

I am a long time wrestling fan, and I have searched for this video for decades.. you won't find it. Anybody who says they've seen it, is lying, or they don't know what they're talking about. People tend to show the infamous New Jack bump he took off the scaffold, which was scripted. There are some blurry images of what people suspect was Owen falling, but it's hard to determine. There are definitely images of Owen already down and unconscious in the ring, but even those have been increasingly harder and harder to find as the years go on. There is no blood in the images, except maybe a little on his arm, and a spot in the ring, that they tried to clean, but you can see it throughout the rest of Over the Edge ppv, if you look. If you ever went to a WWE/WWF show back in the day, when there wasn't camera phones, if you tried to bring in your own camera, they would confiscate it, and you could get it back after the event. It was virtually impossible to record something like that. They were very strict, I even remember going to an event with my dad and brother, where they took my soda, because it was considered a concession, and I had to buy one from them, even though my dad told them I have hypoglycemia and needed it. It was either that, or you don't see the show. Things are different now, different world.

I am sure that it is sitting right next to the nonexistent tape of Christine Chubbuck shooting herself in the head during a newscast.