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1* DracoInLeatherPants: At ''[=WrestleMania=] XIII'', he and Wrestling/DaveyBoySmith defended the WWE World Tag Team Titles against [[Wrestling/MickFoley Mankind]] and Wrestling/{{Vader}}, in a match where everyone was a heel. Owen was the only one who got cheers.
2* HarsherInHindsight:
3** Go back and watch ''Over the Edge''. The opening monologue by Wrestling/TheUndertaker is this. Especially considering how he's talking about "Your heroes will fall" and all. Hell, the very fact that the event was called '''''Over the Edge'''''.
4** This excerpt from an interview, five months before his death:
5---> ''“When my contract is up, I’m out of wrestling. I’ve made plans. I’ve been smart with my fiscal affairs. Financially, I’ll be set. I really want to devote a lot of time to my family. I’ve bought some property on a lake. I plan on doing a lot of boating and fishing. I want to continue to stay in shape. And who knows, I might do ten weeks a year in Japan. Something just to motivate me to keep in shape, keep involved a little bit but not have to deal with the politics, the pressures that are so intense right now. I’ve paid my dues for twelve years now. If I continue for five more, that’s seventeen years working at a pretty hard clip. I think that at that point my family, my wife and kids, have been compromised enough…”''
6* HilariousInHindsight: Owen once told Wrestling/MichaelCole, "you're full of crap." This was back when Cole was just a neutral announcer/interviewer, essentially a recycling of the same inept announcer character previously played by Sean Mooney and Todd Pettingill, and over a decade before Cole's 2010 heel turn.
7* MemeticMutation: "...and that's why I kicked [[Wrestling/BretHart your]] leg out of your leg!"
8* NeverLiveItDown:
9** Ask someone who isn't a hardcore wrestling fan who he is and they're probably only going to remember him, if they recognize him at all, as the guy who fell to his death from a zipline at a WWF event.
10** Breaking Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin's neck. It says something that even after his tragic death, one of the most controversial in wrestling, this can be easily the second best-known thing about him, after said death. Made even worse by the fact that, according to Austin, he never apologized; even his brother Wrestling/{{Bret|Hart}} was baffled at his attitude.
11* {{Squick}}: Even though you don't actually see him fall at "Over the Edge" (and the mentions of it were removed from the Network version), there's a noticeable bloodstain on the ring apron after it happens. You can see it first in the Wrestling/JeffJarrett/Wrestling/{{Debra|Marshall}} vs. Wrestling/ValVenis/Nicole Bass match (during which Jarrett unsurprisingly looks at it with horror) until the end of the event. Some accounts suggest that there was a hole in the ring as well or that it was dented, although it's untrue. The stain is actually residue from [[Wrestling/DavidHeath The Brood]] performing a "blood bath" during the pre-show earlier in the night, but it's still a horrible thing to see under the circumstances.
12* WTHCostumingDepartment: High Energy's puffy pants with the checkerboards on them.

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