Jeff Jarrett has reflected on the passing of Owen Hart.
The WWE Hall of Famer appeared on Prime Time with Sean Mooney and spoke about his late friend. While talking about the late great performer, Jarrett was asked about what his perspective was like at that Over the Edge PPV where Owen fell from the rafters during a stunt that tragically cut his life short.
Jarrett brought up how the two stars would dress together and how he as quickly called for his segment after being told about the incident. The former Intercontinental Champion stated that he was going through the motions as strictly instinct because it was a small building with wrestlers and production crates filling up the backstage area of the arena which led to them having a small locker room.
“I can remember him walking out of the dressing room and I was on after him. I knew that I had a good 15-20 minutes and it was literally minutes I hear someone screaming, ‘You’re up! You’re up!’ and I’m like, ‘No, I’m not.’ and they’re like, ‘yeah!’ I was essentially ready and I had no idea, I remember walking down the hall and they said he had an accident. Nothing in your wildest dreams, it’s a blown out knee or whatever, something so trivial.”
He noted that he got on set and all of a sudden a mass of people come through with a man doing CPR and compressions on Owen, which made him know that there was something wrong.
He brought up that they had a cop car set up for him where they would drive him to the hospital and once he got there, there was an ER person who came up to him when he arrived to tell him the news. Jarrett stated that it was a complete tragedy in many ways but he likes to remember Owen on the fond days and the good days.
Jarrett would continue on by talking about the difficult decision WWE Chairman Vince McMahon had to make about continuing the show and how he felt about it. He noted that he believes that it rests squarely on McMahon’s shoulders as he had to make the decision that was wrong.
“Knowing Vince, he knew that. That’s tough, but he took it and it got into a litigated part of life, but he put his best foot forward and ‘kept on keepin’ on.’ My hats off to him and his family, because it’s truly a tragedy.”
H/T to Wrestling Inc for the transcribed quotes.
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