During a recent episode of the “Monday Mailbag with Mike Chioda” podcast, former WWE ring announcer Tony Chimel recalled the night that Owen Hart passed away.
Hart lost his life in May 1999 at WWE’s Over the Edge pay-per-view event, where he was set to challenge The Godfather for the Intercontinental Championship. The equipment malfunctioned as Hart was coming down from the rafters on a harness, causing him to fall to his death.
“I don’t know if I was taking jackets or maybe I was just out back there hanging out, but that’s where I was when it happened,” Chimel said. “And I just remember Jerry Lawler coming back and saying, ‘Guys, I think he’s dead, for serious.’ We were all like, ‘Oh my God, what happened?’ Then, we’re all just waiting and stuff, and then I saw when they wheeled him back and stuff, and [Owen] just looked purple to me. And it was such a sad, sad moment.”
