WWE Death: The Owen Hart Fall and Why it Never Should've Happened

The WWE death that shocked the world - Owen Hart would fall 78 feet to his death in front of a live audience during a pay-per-view event on on May 23, 1999 as he prepared to make a stunt entrance from the rafters of the Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Missouri.

Roughly 75 minutes into the event, Owen Hart prepared to descend from the arena rafters as his match was introduced. Instead, witnesses in attendance saw Hart fall 78 feet and hit his head. At first, fans thought it was part of the act. They quickly discovered that it wasn’t.

Some witnesses reported seeing the cable snap, while others said it seemed as if Hart had never even been hooked in the first place. Some said they saw Hart’s head snap backward when he smacked against one of the ring’s padded turnbuckles.

Medics rushed into the ring to perform CPR on Hart before he was transferred to Truman Medical Center in Kansas City, where he was pronounced dead. Owen Hart was 34 years old.

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