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By Justin Kendall in Entertainment, News
Tue., Feb. 24 2009 @ 6:02AM
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Owen Hart
May 23 will mark the 10th anniversary of pro wrestler Owen Hart's death. Hart died in the ring during a WWE pay-per-view event in Kansas City at Kemper Arena. He plunged 78 feet after the quick-release mechanism opened as he was being used lowered from a catwalk into the ring. The Calgary Sun talked with Martha Hart, Owen Hart's widow, about the anniversary of her husband's death, raising her and Owen's two children and starting the Owen Hart Foundation.

Martha Hart told The Sun:
"It's interesting because in some ways it feels like such a short period of time -- in other ways, it feels like it was a lifetime ago

"The hardest thing about losing him was it was so sudden ... you have all this love still, and you don't know what to do with it. It's helped me as much as it's helped the people who ended up being the recipients of the foundation."
Martha Hart has kept going, and so has the WWE, which returns to Kansas City -- this time the Sprint Center -- on March 23.
Tags: Calgary Sun, Kemper Arena, Martha Hart, Owen Hart, Sprint Center, WWE
7 comment(s) / Post a Comment
Shane says:

I was at that event at Kemper Arena. It was so bizarre to see in person. The strange thing is that they kept the show going and didn't really say much else about it.

Posted On: Tuesday, Feb. 24 2009 @ 9:19AM
Justin Kendall says:

Shane, I was also there. It was surreal. I was shocked that the show went on.

Posted On: Tuesday, Feb. 24 2009 @ 9:54AM
Chimpo says:

Also there. My brother called 98.9 the Rock to see if they had any news about it since the show kept going, but they thought we were joking.

The fact that his arm fell of the stretcher wasn't a good sign.

Posted On: Tuesday, Feb. 24 2009 @ 3:00PM
Justin Kendall says:

Yeah, and the paramedic straddling him on the stretcher and doing chest compressions after like five minutes wasn't a good sign either.

Posted On: Tuesday, Feb. 24 2009 @ 3:05PM
Wraslin Bob says:

I'm going to try to find that documentary about the Hart Family, that starts about their Dad starting the crazy wrestling stuff in their basement for fun a long time ago. Does anybody remember the name of it?

Posted On: Tuesday, Feb. 24 2009 @ 7:24PM
Wraslin Bob says:

I looked up the documentary for everybody, check out Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows, its great. Explains a lot!

Posted On: Tuesday, Feb. 24 2009 @ 7:48PM
TheNaturalMevs says:

They don't make them like Owen Hart anymore. By all accounts, he was one of the greatest guys to ever grace a ring in the sport and was one of the last great ones to leave wrestling.

I've never heard anyone say a bad word about Owen. That night in Kemper Arena was the night wrestling died.

Posted On: Tuesday, Mar. 10 2009 @ 10:19PM


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