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  • Draco in Leather Pants: At WrestleMania XIII, he and Davey Boy Smith defended the WWE World Tag Team Titles against Mankind and Vader, in a match where everyone was a heel. Owen was the only one who got cheers.
  • Harsher in Hindsight:
    • Go back and watch Over the Edge. The opening monologue by The Undertaker 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.
    • This excerpt from an interview, five months before his death:
      “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…”
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: Owen once told Michael Cole, "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.
  • Memetic Mutation: "...and that's why I kicked your leg out of your leg!"
  • Never Live It Down:
    • 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.
    • Breaking "Stone Cold" Steve Austin'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 Bret was baffled at his attitude.
  • 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 Jeff Jarrett/Debra vs. Val Venis/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 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.
  • WTH, Costuming Department?: High Energy's puffy pants with the checkerboards on them.

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