The Godfather Was Supposed To Wrestle Owen Hart The Night He Died 

2:50 I believe Jeff Jarrett or the Road Dogg ended up winning the Intercontinental Championship. Not completely sure though.

@@md12962 Godfather

Godfather has always struck me as a genuinely good human being. Loved him as papa shango

I know trying to think your the only one who knows his real name shut up 🤣

@@Phoenixsuns1968 huh?

​@@ponokanakaIs he? I'm someone's godfather as well.

whenever anyone would ask me about what i went through, they always demand every single, teeny tiny detail. “What time was it?” “What day was it?” “What’s the address?” and because i was more focused on the events themselves, everyone laughs and say i am just making it up

Is he papa shango

​@maroof1 yes, he was also Papa Shango

@@maroof1yes, he’s Papa Shango, he was also Kama as well

He was one that never tied his sense of identity to his character or the business. He’s obviously grateful for his time and success in wrestling, but it’s not who he is at the core.

You probably dont know but beaver teeth kevin Dunn told jr in the headphones and jr had to be professional about it sad man

Because Vince is a trash bag human being.

​@@herecomesdatrain"Owen is dead...and we're back live in 10, 9, 8,..." Unbelievable!

@@thegreenpianist7683 that was fucked up. I get the show must go on but damn this was f'd up

@@herecomesdatrain nah the show should've stopped immediately for criminal investigation if nothing else, but yeah that was ice cold and not at all in the cool way

Literally the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard honestly. I like Ken but CMON

jesus

some people have a hard time accepting tragic events. that sounds to me like a man hoping that his friend isnt dead and will show up and say," it was the greatest rib in wrestling history! woooo" shit was tragic and sudden af i can understand that being very difficult to accept .

@@ZeonRemnants Ken was very close to the Harts [Ken trained in Stu Hart's dungeon when he came to WWE. Owen was seen wearing Lion's Den {Ken's MMA team at the time} shirts as well] so I can understand him being in disbelief. Its the same when you lose a relative or loved one. You just can't accept that they're gone for a period of time.

It's called denial, he probably couldn't believe it and was hoping to see him alive

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Same here.

My dad use to work with a guy who order every ppv tape it and give to use to watch the next day i was about 4 and it was very dark vibes i got watching it after finding out what happened.

Did they give refunds? It's the least they could do

@@locky7347 refunds for what? they continued the show

What was it like for the rest of the show?

@@David_R922 I remember seeing the paramedics come out with a stretcher, that's when we all knew that wasn't a stunt, he actually fell...i never saw the actual fall cause I had my head turned talking to my dad, I just hear a loud crash... turned and looked and there was Owen laid out in the ring... after they carted Owen away, for some odd reason the show kept going, Owen was supposed to fight the Godfather for the IC title...next was the main event which was Stone Cold vs the Undertaker for the WWF championship in which Austin won

@@Chris-go6ds Did you think it was part of the script? Was the crowd still interested in the matches after what happened? Any announcements to the crowd?

@@David_R922 like I said before when the stretcher came out we knew it wasn't a stunt anymore...and yes and no

It's weird that no announcement was made. They just went on like nothing happened.

That is ironic...

The title change to Jarrett would've been two Raws later. On the Owen tribute Raw, it was Road Dogg & Godfather leaving their scheduled match to "go burn one and tell some Owen stories."

Jarrett wrestled Test on RAW is Owen.

​@@atifqavi2054 tapped him out with The Sharpshooter

​@Meng4Now so the Owen Raw tribute show wasn't the next night? I thought it was.

@@GameTime-yj6qvThe Owen tribute was the next night, the title switch to Jarrett was a week or two after that.

It was going to be the beginning of his push. I have also heard he was going to be called the game before it was given to Triple H.

thats whats even worse. the blue blazer gimmick was lame and corny. i wish they would have really pushed the "black hart" angle. once hbk squashed that idea its like they didnt know what to do with owen so it was team him with JJ until having him be a mid card singles guy again.

He really is just watch any match against the british bull dog far exceeds his brother.

@@airic21 He far exceeds Bret?

@@wharsmetoothpicson9465 yup

​@@airic21don't be daft.

It was Debora.And yes I agree it was all to punish and humiliate Owen because he's Brett's brother.

@@mikepuleo9375 I know he's Brett's brother. I'm not stupid

@Melissa Wright I meant the whole business of Vince trying to humiliate Owen was a form of payback.And Owen wouldn't have died that way if he wasn't Brett's brother.I wasn't implying anything else.This whole thing just reeks of blatant gross negligence

That's exactly what it was. WWF/E can say what they want. They trapped him in that contract and less than 2 years after the Montreal thing and Bret going to WCW that happens with Owen. I realized that back then. I was grown at that time but still that was a long time ago and I remember that time period clearly. I also remember the fact he didn't want to be seen as cheating on his wife with Debra.

Vince screwed the Harts

Thanks Graham! I loved this convo!

Yeah this was good

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Godfather dropped the IC Championship to Jarrett on the May 31, 1999 taping of Raw. May 25 was a Tuesday after the Raw is Owen tribute show the previous night.

Such a senseless tragedy. No need for that stupid stunt

@@EddieRivera1988The 5/31 Raw was taped on 5/25. Raw wasn't live every week until Smackdown started in August 1999.

You're a good scout

Where is the vhs tape now? Does it show the actual fall?

Yeah I've read that it was supposed to lead to a feud between Blazer and Jarrett over it (with Blazer as the good guy), but also I think they wanted to do the whole "split personality" thing where Owen himself would have asked for a title shot while claiming that the Blazer was ducking him or something. I guess we'll never know for sure, but I think the split personality thing would have been the main storyline.

Jarrett had Debra with him at the time and she was really popular for...the obvious reason so Jarrett was getting cheered by association. That said, I'd imagine Owen playing both Owen and Blue Blazer would have turned face to feud with Jarrett

@@MrPerfect2000Z 🐶

@@jonathanturbide2232honestly wwe doesn’t really think things out that far for the most part when it comes to mid card

I'd think so

$$$$ had already booked da venue az & $ invested n da setup & stuff

N putting Jim Ross back on the air only secs after telling him that Owen Heart died

This is the same man who literally forces his employees to name drop and insult deceased wrestlers’ names for feuds/segments are you really shocked about his decision🤷🏾‍♂️

He was thinking about the money

Didn't want the audience to riot. No one in the live crowd knew he died either. This was before cell phones so no one knew until either they got home and read it online or saw the news the next day.

I thought that was pretty weird that they wouldn't have had the cameras on blue blazer when he was making his entrance live on the ppv

SCSA

How do you remember something like that

You're a good and faithful servant

Ohhhhhhhh nooooooo😱 They sacrificed Owen in hopes that they could possibly topple their own company at the absolute pennicle of its success😬😬 My teeth are chattering. My body is shaking. The Undertaker is REAL BROOOOOOOO

@@jamesmiller5331 After the Death of Owen, then the company went from being a privately trading company to a public trading.

@@tytharpe350 yes the very next day. Or six months later. Something like that. That's when the Undertaker hasn't turned into Mark Calaway and the WWF had to stop doing murder rituals on Pay-per-view. Is that you Mark?

@@jamesmiller5331 It was in the month of October and it was five months.

@@jamesmiller5331 The spiritual world is real and it’s a shame people don’t see it

Vince & the WWF had to pay Martha Hart about $10 million and Martha got all rights to Owen's likeness

You don't have it right either. Jarrett wrestled Test on RAW is Owen. Jarrett won the title on the Raw after that. At least he remembered who he dropped it to.

Yes sir

You would be correct. In documentaries about him it was said that Owen really didn't like the wrestlling business. But given that he had grown up around it and his talent it was something he could do and make a lot of money at. He hated being on the road so much and away from his family. His motivation was to make enough money so that he would be able to provide his family with a good life and have money put away for his kids college. Then once he had enough money he was going to leave the wrestling business for good and come back home and become a firefighter so that he would be around his family more. This is one thing I really admire about him. The wrestling industry has so many over inflated egos and people who are doing it all for themselves. Owen wasn't doing it for himself or his love of wrestling. He was simply doing it as a way to provide his family a better life.

All of the other matches on the PPV went on, so it seems natural to wonder what their thought process was.

@CVV CLIPS Lol no dude, just no!!!! 😂