This past weekend marked sixteen years since the tragic passing of Owen Hart. It’s one of those events in wrestling history that if you’re a life long fan of the sport, you remember exactly where you were, and what you were doing.
On May 23rd, 1999, I was just twelve years old. Because my family was low, low, lower middle class, we couldn’t afford cable. Yes, during a time period in which wrestling was it’s absolute hottest, with the World Wrestling Federation battling rival World Championship Wrestling for rating supremacy opposite each other every Monday night, I was without cable television.