Taking place in the Kiel Center is St. Louis, Missouri, the May 24, 1999 edition of of WWF Raw Is War (known nowadays as WWE Raw) is an emotional one, as it is on the day after the infamous WWF Over The Edge PPV of that year, in which during the show, Owen Hart tragically lost his life while doing an entrance as his Blue Blazer gimmick, where the harness he was attached to malfunctioned, causing him to drop 78 feet. It was a sad tragedy, and one that would get the wrestling promotion backlash for how they handled it and even sued by Own Hart's wife, Martha.
Opening with a ten-bell salute for Owen, we can see how this will be a sad night, as even some of the wrestlers are crying. Throughout the two hours, while there is wrestling (as the show must go on, although it is said Vince did ask the wrestlers, or superstars, as they are called, whether they wanted to wrestle a match or not), we would also get spots before and after commercials where wrestlers like Mick Foley (who wrestled in WWF/WWE during the time as the character of Mankind), Bradshaw, and one of the best being Mark Henry writing and telling a poem about Owen.
For the wrestling we do get, start with a match between Jeff Jarrett and Test, the matches ensure that they honor with Owen (with Jeff, who was Owen's former tag team partner, even doing the Sharpshooter submission hold to win his match). While nowadays, this can be seen as "damage control" after Vince and the WWE got sued, but it is nice to see the superstars actually care about their fallen comrade.
Opening with a ten-bell salute for Owen, we can see how this will be a sad night, as even some of the wrestlers are crying. Throughout the two hours, while there is wrestling (as the show must go on, although it is said Vince did ask the wrestlers, or superstars, as they are called, whether they wanted to wrestle a match or not), we would also get spots before and after commercials where wrestlers like Mick Foley (who wrestled in WWF/WWE during the time as the character of Mankind), Bradshaw, and one of the best being Mark Henry writing and telling a poem about Owen.
For the wrestling we do get, start with a match between Jeff Jarrett and Test, the matches ensure that they honor with Owen (with Jeff, who was Owen's former tag team partner, even doing the Sharpshooter submission hold to win his match). While nowadays, this can be seen as "damage control" after Vince and the WWE got sued, but it is nice to see the superstars actually care about their fallen comrade.