Speaking on the Bobby Bones Show, Jeff Jarrett discussed a wide range of topics.
During it, Jarrett discussed the tragic passing of Owen Hart at the 1999 WWE Over The Edge PPV event when he fell to his death in a stunt gone wrong. Jarrett was asked whether he was surprised the show went on.
“Not at the time. That was the one thing when I went into recovery that I never processed at all. I hate to say it, but it was work. I’ve talked to his widow Martha and extensive conversations, but we were in a place where his match was on before me, the backstage stage manager came and said, ‘Hey, Owen is going to the ring, you’re up next.’ I had in my mind 15-18 minutes. Three minutes later, they came and said, ‘You’re on now.’ I went, did a promo, and all that stuff was going around. They wheeled his body right beside me. I went to the ring, did that, came back, I said, ‘I want to go to the hospital right now.’ It was, I hate to say this, but it was the reality…caught up to me. It was, unfortunately, in my mind, another day at work with a tragic accident,” said Jarrett.
“I got in the ring, and to this day I haven’t watched that match back, for a number of reasons. I felt the top rope was very very loose, and I went over in the corner where his body had fallen, and there was a — I can talk about it now, for years I wouldn’t talk about it — there was a dip in the ring. There was no blood. It was where his body had fallen. I just had a sense of, ‘Okay.’ In my gut, I didn’t process it or intellectually think it through, but in my gut, I was like, ‘Okay, this is bad.'”
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