Teddy Long On Owen Hart's Fall At Over The Edge 1999
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- WWE Hall of Famer Teddy Long joins Chris to discuss being a referee for the match right after Owen Hart passed away at the Over the Edge event in 1999.
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Watch the full interview with Teddy Long on my main channel here: czcams.com/video/dlqS22HS_zA/video.html
To be fair to Teddy, I'd want to block that from my mind too.
i wanna see some real footy of that fall bet its hilarious
You should be ashamed of yourself
@@dominictarantino1729i mean would you want to remember watching your friend die like that?
@@tylercox1875he's referencing the guy above him saying it was probably funny
@@deathmauler181 oh i didnt see that
hard to believe its 25 years
Soon we'll say can't believe it's been 50 years
@@hermanthetosser4219sersiouy man, i remember this day like it was yesterday at 8 years old
Right.
It’s quite easy to believe
Not really tho.
Undertakers face after the accident perfectly captured what everyone in the arena was feeling
What do you mean? His face later on in a match that night or is there some footage/photos of him backstage? As you can tell, I've never watched that PPV.🤦♀️😂
@@Benz5469da hell u laughing
@@JACQUEZJOHNSON23some weirdos are comfortable laughing at the dead apparently.
@@CHRISPYakaKON it's crazy man
@@CHRISPYakaKONFor some, it's a defense mechanism
I didn't know Teddy was there for that 😢
Yep Teddy was a referee before he was GM.
It was STAGED. Get it ? 😂😂😂😂
@@dan-fo8qrwtf
Same😔
Damn it’s so sad hearing how they were hanging out that day Owen making ppl laugh then that happened to him wish I was old enough to see him wrestle
25 years later I’m 38 and I still come back and find it as it’s one of the most shocking events in my life
25 years later and I’m 24 about to be 25 lol
Over The Edge has got to be the most unfortunate PPV titles ever
I was JUST thinking that very thing!
Nugget Splat is what I call it
I still believe the fall was planned and that it was a sacrifice on live tv for the world to see
@@spockhozzer7207Stop describing your brain
Which is why they retired the PPV name and replaced it with, oddly enough, Judgement Day.
Why are you making this sweet old man relive this shit 🤣
Same reason why you clicked
I am sure they asked him before the interview if it was ok to talk about it, and he give go ahead to do so.
@@harinderrana9735 hmmm
Why did you click?@@bryanmack4054
It's disgusting this video is a disgrace to Owen
The way he had no recollection when you referred to it as Over the Edge 1999 transition into instantly reliving the whole day when you mention Owen Hart falling.
Today marks 25 years of this tragedy, how I miss Owen and Eddie, damn 😢, I never got to see them on television but they were incredible wrestlers and had a lot to give, there were still too many rivalries that will only be a dream :-(
Saddest day ever, god bless the family
Teddy long was my favorite GMs when he was on Smackdown.
I was on Napster trying to find the video. 🤦♂️
Be Cautious when talking to teddy you don't wanna get on his bad side when he summons The Undertaker 😮
Was up in the cheap seats, like section 300 of Kemper Arena that night, so we had our attention on the screens above the ring for the Godfather vs Blue Blazer hype package and as a result unfortunately we had a clear shot of the lighting rig shaking and Owen plummeting that will forever be etched in my mind. Can confirm the audience was left completely in the dark although most of us feared the worst as the night continued on and still no update was given.
Crazy!
Why did the lighting rig shake?
@@Pedaissance Owen was supposed to be lowered from a harness from the lighting rig walkways into the entry way when they lifted him the harness failed and Owen unfortunately plummeted to the ring
I've always found it odd that the ppv was called Over the edge
I stayed up to watch that PPV in the UK. My blood ran cold when Jim Ross made the announcement to the audience at home.
I still believe they should've closed the show immediately after the fall. "The show must go on" is an old showbiz mantra that on this occasion was used to mask an incredibly poor decision by Vince and co.
My heartfelt condolences still gonout to Owen's family and friends.
Yeah I don't know if it was the same thing in the States, I imagine it was, but watching it at like 2 in the morning I just wondered what happened to the match because they didn't really say what was going on until lJR said something. Was surreal.
I think if it happened now....they would have cancelled the rest of the show and refunded the remainder of people's money. But the WWE run by Vince McMahon had everyone who attended's money and he wasn't going to let something like a wrestler's death get in the way of that.
I agree, for comparison there was an incident on the live German game show show Wetten Dass, where a guest named Samuel Koch did a stunt gone wrong, he was jumping and flipping over oncoming cars, on the third car he didn't completely clear it and landed awkwardly on his head and neck. It caused him to suffer a spinal cord injury and he's now a quadriplegic for life. At the time of the injury they sent the show to an extended commercial break, after a couple of minutes they came back to announce they were ending the show early as a result of the accident. Good call I think.
🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 one of our own. I remember it being on the newspapers as a Kid I remember the Sun covering this
I think they should have canceled cause that should've been investigated by police
this incident amongst others make just think “what the hell is wrong with Vince” this is the textbook definition of “read the room”. someone passes away and he’s just like “the show must go on” heartless decision
The other wrestlers are just as much to blame as Vince. He gave them the option to go home and all of them decided to stay. From a business standpoint, he still had advertisers and sponsors to fulfil on the PPV since they are contracted, plus the thousands that paid to see the main event in house and millions at home. Making a decision like this is not as simple as you think.
@QualityEJC and they were finally beating wcw in ratings and 2000 was coming up which was the peak of wrestling
Business has no heart, it's business. Vince would have to refund everyone and that would take a very long time to deal with each person who paid and some might try to make it into a court thing and it would be a disaster.
@@ItApproaches When Mitsuharu Misawa died right then and there in a Pro Wrestling NOAH ring, the whole show was called off immediately. This was not a company with the power to just go "fuck the consequences, we'll do what's right, we can survive" like fucking 1999 WWF, arguably the greatest year for any damn wrestling company that's ever been, at least for the past 30-35 years.
The seconds, the young boys, all the undercard guys, all the main eventers, the promoters, they all said "a man just fucking died, the show's off". 2009 NOAH was a struggling company. Misawa was their biggest draw. Not only were they uncertain if they could survive the controversy of a single show cancellation, of which thousands were in attendance, they were damn sure they might be completely done. They still had sponsors and advertisers to please, too.
They did the right thing anyway.
WWF could've easily survived doing the right thing to the minor inconvinence of Vince's literally bottomless pockets in 1999, but they didn't. Some promoters are men, and other promoters are cowards.
@@THENAMEISQUICKMAN
But would they have made that decision without seeing the fallout from the decision wwe made in 1999? Easy to point the finger when you're not the one having to make the call without precedent.
He knew, he just said that because ever since he's probably trying to forget, I mean who would like to remember such a tragedy. But I'll tell you this, he's never forgotten about it, he just wants to move on with it because no matter what those images will be instilled in his mind forever. Even if he wants to forget, he truly never could even if he wanted to. Just think about that for a minute.
“The show must go on, pal!”
Vince is pure evil for that, it shows all he cares about is money and not his talent's well being, and he truly lacks empathy
I still remember that ppv I was a kid watching it
That had to be the hardest decision to make to continue because I've been to events and by the time Owen fell people had been drinking alcohol and scary part that nobody looks at is what would people reaction be if they stopped all it would take is one person to throw a chair hit someone and you get a riot
Remembers none of it then goes on to name the town, and everything
🤣🤣🤣 to be fair Chris had to remind him about what he was talking about
I don’t think Teddy knew the exact name of the PPV when Owen fell lol Teddy probably just assumed it was some random match Chris was talking about.
^^ What the last reply said
@@ClamSwordyeah people are slow bro they don’t understand
Chris telling him it was the night Owen fell let him know what ppv he was referring too. There were just a couple of Over the Edge ppv with the last one being 25 years so he probably didn't remember the name of the ppv
My brothers were there at Kemper. They said at first people throught it was supposed to happen but then the arena went silent and everyone knew what happened.
I remember when Teddy Long use to be on Bankhead in Atlanta chilling at green tire service from time to time
I was watching it live from wales in the uk. I was nearly 14 at the time and had school in the morning but would get up at 1 am then back to bed when it finished. My legs went to jelly when J.R announced that Owen had died and couldn’t sleep after the show.
Owen Hart. "You're gonna face the Undertaka playa"
Talk about an oversell. Owen is still working this angle 25 years later
Da Reebok hoodie Teddy is rockin' tho 🔥
Long Live Owen Hart ♥️🙏
😢 everyone should have gotten to go home and just come back and do another show,it was clear nobody wanted to be there cause it was way too upsetting,I remember this like it was yesterday so tragic 😔
when will they release the footage because it’s been a long time coming
Did he put you in a tag team match after the interview?
Or make him go one-on-one with the Undertaker!
@@noobsaibot8844 “ 🎵 you know it’s the macmillitant,…coming to get it on 🎶 “
EMOTIONAL DAMAGE!!!!!!
Dang man.
damn i didnt know teddy was there
He was the referee for the infamous D'Lo vs Droz
@@jadoc3767 oh wow I didn't know that either
Imagine Teddy in the Shawshank redemption
“I remember the last time I saw Owen……”😂😂😂
What sad is that a wrestler actually died and Vince McMahon was so damn greedy, that he could have reimbursed everyone's tickets and had that Pay Per View the following weekend
They thought Owen would be able to get help.
I member that PPW being 12 years old I was shocked it was silent all my family members didn’t say a word when Owen fell 😢 rip hart
Who else remembers Teddy Long's WHITE boy challenge from 2003
Imagine, Eric Bischoff Black boy challenge, would that be ok?
😂😂😂😂😂 i do
@@JayCord00Oh shut up , Vince said the N-word on live TV with no outrage.
I do. That was the only time in history that I wasn’t a Teddy fan.
Goldberg going crazy screaming “WHITE BOYS!!” when he won 😂
He was a ref then
I ordered the ppv i was in shock couldn't believe what just have happened when Owen fell i was lost for words.
You never saw him fall on ppv
@@Ccubed92 she saw the EMT in the ring and King's reaction to it and JR reporting owen's fall
I was a baby when the incident happened but I remember watching segments about Owen Hart and reading about how this happened definitely made me understand why the WWE made those don’t try this at home montages on the DVDs. Wrestling is scripted yes but those guys suffer serious injuries and sadly death. RIP Owen Hart.
Teddy..... LOVE this dude
Me too pal. Me too...
Come on playa of course I do
@@user-eb9gs9ky7x Me too playa... Holla, Holla, Holla!!!
You're going to go 🚶🏻♂️ 1 on 1 with THE UNDERTAKER!
The event was really called over the edge? Crazy
Teddy is the man.
Correct me if I'm wrong but based on a photo I saw a while ago, Teddy was also there on the night of Droz's accident. I'm curious what he was thinking that night as well.
That’s nothing compared to someone falling 75 feet and hitting the turnbuckle, Owen dudes 45 minutes later supposedly
@@tracedeyo190 You're right but I wasn't trying to compare the two. Both situations are absolutely terrible regardless. I'd imagine it still sucks to see somebody get dropped on their head thus paralyzing them from the neck, down for the rest of their life.
Lol Teddy was like “Over the what when?” 😂
I was only 5 when it happened but I do recall it was the first time I have ever felt dread. Dread and panic.
I recently watched an unedited version of that show. It was brutal. They never showed Owen laying there but JR was telling the audience that this was not part of the show and something terrible had just happened to Owen. I think it was the 3rd match of the show so it was still early. I don’t know if they should have continued the show but Owen never should have been up there to begin with.
Watched this live
I wouldn’t even ask him about that nobody wants to talk about stuff like that
It's a topic people want to hear about
@@Pedaissanceyes but for people who knew him, why would they want to reminisce on something so horrifying for them
Have any fans that were there ever been interviewed?
Not that I know of, but I did talk to a person on Facebook who was there when it happened. He confirmed the story of Owen’s last words of yelling “look out!” to be true.
I just saw another channel had an interview with a guy who was three rows from the front on here
Vince Mcmahon really was a dirtbag
So original!! Dude great work 👏👏
@@JayCord00 thanks
Is**** present tense
Vince is a dirtbag, but not for continuing the show after Owen’s fall.
A lot of the wrestlers in the back lost somebody they deeply cared about, and just wanted to take their minds off of the horrible tragedy by wrestling. Owen himself probably would have also wanted the show to continue.
Everyone, including Vince, was devastated by the loss of Owen Hart. But not everyone handles such events the same. Let people mourn and cope with tragedies in their own way.
@@Filthy-Rat__Steve Austin wasn't. He killed him. Witnesses that were brushed off said they saw Austin in the rafters where Owen's spot was being set up earlier that day.
I remember just cutting my tv off. It was so disrespectful to Owen and the Hart family. I was on the phone with two friends (brothers, we always talked during ppv's) who continued watching at their house convinced it was a work but I felt like puking. My girlfriend at the time was an er nurse and she was like "He's dead, babe. You don't survive a fall like that." Plus we saw the blood stain as the match after began and I just picked up the remote and cut it off.
I'll take things that didn't happen for 500 Alex.
The blood stain on the mat wasn't from Owen. There was a blood bath on Sunday Night Heat. Dark Side of the ring was a little misleading with that.
Damn sucks every time
Someone is having a good day having fun or something enjoy themselves something bad always happen RIP Owen 🙏🏽
I’m watching this on my cell phone
Im glad to hear owens last day was at least a fun one
I would never for get that day. May 23 my birthday is May24 and that was a gift my mom gave me a ppv . I was so happy then everything went blank
Anybody would've stopped the show
Not even most people would have carried on
@@stormshadow631stone cold and the rock was forced to wrestle that last match with owens blood still in the ring
@@tracedeyo190 good on them gotta get paid
All these years later, such an unfortunate event.
And an unnecessary one. There was no point to having him do that stupid ass stunt.
Wrestling is live theater and "The show must go on." It's not merely a slogan it is a point of honor for people who work in theater. There are many reasons why. Those who don't work in theater might not understand or value the reasons but to people who support themselves and their families with theater those reasons matter.
I think continuing the show after Owen died is top 3 of the worst things Vince has ever done, and that’s really saying something.
He went from I don’t remember to telling a full detailed story
I believe if cell phone was back in 99 they would stop the show it would be too many information the fans probably go crazy
For vastly different reasons, I tend to want to forget about how Owen and Chris Benoit passed.
I always found it weird out of all the managers that came and gone.. he was the only one they ever turned into a Ref.
He was a ref first then a manager
Sad tragic night that was
I think what's left unsaid in this segment is that people don't know if this is an "angle" or not. They don't know whether to be genuinely concerned. I wasn't at the show and I didn't watch it on PPV but there was enough "Internet" in 1999, especially on AOL, that word got round quickly enough, including of the announcement of Owen's death, and there was heated discussion about whether this was real or not.
Crazy its been 25 years since the tragedy
16 Numpty
That’s the day I couldn’t watch wrestling anymore, I try to watch now and then but after watching your favourite wrestling die, after 20 years I’m back tho
You was their?
That's horrible I started watching wrestling shortly after this incident I had no clue since I was a kid
Had to watch cuz I’m not tryna go one on one with The Undertaker
Imagine being in that front row watching Owen heart die and fall
This shows you how dark and seedy the wwf is by allowing the show to continue
And here I thought he was talking about MJ
The rumor in school the next day is that Sting fell.. second grade .
It's hard to believe that it has been 25 years since then. I wish I could block it out too
i personally hated the fact they kept the PPV going i would have pulled the plug on the PPV
What are the odds that it happened at a show called Over The Edge?
There was also an episode of Batman The Animated series called Over The Edge exactly one year before on May 23 1998 where Batgirl falls off a rooftop
@Pedaissance You're right. That's creppy.
Damn I wish Owen's fall was a prank. I couldn't imagine if it happened now how much footage would be out there of it.
I remember that Pay Per View so well. After everything "cleared" I wondered, HOW? HOW could a company like this have this happen? And then HOW did they continue the show? With Owen's blood in the ring? As time passed, GREED, was my only answer. Sad, just sad that a man in his prime, lost his life, his family lost a father, a husband, a friend. After all of the finger pointing and accusations Owen's kids and wife suffered more than anyone.
I still, to this day, believe that they should've just ended the show immediately after Owen Hart fell to his death. I understand "the show must go on" thing. But when someone dies on live PPV in front of the entire world watching it, then that makes the company look bad. More importantly, for Vince McMahon to not only have Jim Ross make that unfortunate announcement, but to continue the show as if the incident never happened, that just proves that he has no heart.
From what i heard, that was one of the most fucked up things to happen in the industry besides what happened with Chris Benoit. RIP OWEN!
Luckily there were no phones.
Or any proof it happened
Would be great to see Teddy again.
Imagine he would manage a giant or a powerhouse. After a while...everytime Teddy comes out he could say first of all nothing... pause.... you go one on one with _______. Like the *Damn* comment.
Teddy + Big E, why not. That would be funny.
Teddy Long is a true OG of wrestling and a quality man
To this day I still don’t understand why they just didn’t cancel the show
Just think if someone killed that man, they had so much time to get rid of evidence. Continuing that show was a slap in the face to Owen. Showed no regard for human life at all.
I really wish the morbid online mob would let that dude (and others) Rest In fkng PEACE
I feel like Owen’s situation might have been a prank gone wrong
A prank dropping somebody from the rafters?
An event that should never ever have continued
The night Vince got his revenge on the Hart Family, after Bret spat in his eye and knocked him out backstage 19 months prior
Owen Hart went over the edge at Over The Edge
It was done on purpose. That’s why they named it OVER THE EDGE
The Blood on the mat...How u can work After that
The blood on the mat wasn't Owen's it was said by multiple wrestlers it was from gangrel and his group from earlier in the night
@descendantoftheworld Thank you! I just posted the same thing on another comment
Probably the only time the action in the ring wasn't staged.
may 13th 1999 june 25 2007 and august 25 2007 will days that would days live in infamy
Seriously though after Owen fell all of the wrestlers and referees should have refused to wrestle. The man just fell from an insane height with blood still fresh in the ring. There comes a point where you have to stand up for your principles.
So sad how the show continued as WWE cared more about money than the health of their employees.
Agreed and that’s why Vince treats his wrestlers like action figures and not humans. Once he’s got all the usefulness out of you, you are tossed to the side for a newer and shinier toy.
According to stories, vince gave the wrestlers the opportunity not to wrestle, but most was scared of losing out in money, which they had families even though they all lost their "brother"
From all the perspectives and testimonies from the crowd that was underneath the rafters and the staff, it really sounds like this was intentional/malicious or the person/people behind it were trying their hardest to cover it up and avoid accountability
Look into the story and the person who made the rope didn't have the training to make a safety rope and lied to the wwe about his training
Are we ever gonna acknowledge how weird Chris is for asking these questions?
May has so many dates Andre was born on the 19th owen died the what 22nd?
Pretty heartless to randomly throw that question at him like that soely for views not caring how he feels. Also only the crow their saw him fall. Nobody watching ppv saw him fall