Some questions still demand to be answered: A SuperCut

Four days from now (my time), it will have been 21 years since Owen Hart died.

Tonight, as the conclusion of the second season of the acclaimed VICE documentary Dark Side of the Ring series, the show goes into another of pro wrestling's darkest moments -- Owen Hart's 80-foot fall to his death in Kansas City.

First, I'm going to embed the video of the show here so you can watch it.  There's one thing I want you to watch for -- and it's Owen's attitude as he leaves for Kansas City the day before...



When he goes to his son (as he's going to the airport to KC -- which was not normal for him to take his son) and tells him to take care of everybody.

Owen's widow Martha, for the first time, really goes into detail about this event.

Martha has taken a significant stand against the WWE -- has made sure to raise her children to hate professional wrestling.

Even though they are Harts, would that not stand to reason if your mother believed with all her soul that Vince McMahon murdered Owen Hart for not being enough of a company man?

Owen was one of the few people in the company to refuse racy angles in the "Attitude Era", because he wanted to remain faithful to his wife Martha, and to his children.

Because in a year or two, he was going to leave pro wrestling, by design.  Not for a rival company, but to have a real life as a father and as a husband.

And that, to me, is the two biggest mortal sins against Vince McMahon that you can have.

And when you listen to how his son relates the story about what would be their last goodbye, the more you have to conclude that Vince McMahon and all that tragedy may well have been malfeasance and a direct effort to put an end to an unfaithful employee, even one as loved as Owen.

Don't believe me?  I'll give you another episode of Dark Side here...  This one covers one of the great mysteries and probable coverups of a career which would've aided in the rise of Hulkamania and the national expansion of the World Wrestling Federation -- the murder of Nancy Argentino by Jimmy Snuka...



I make no secret that I want Vince McMahon and his company to burn in flames. I now believe he was, in fact, culpable in a probable murder of Owen Hart.

Owen Hart wanted to play by his rules (and this after his brother was so publicly screwed in Montreal), and wanted a life beyond wrestling I am certain Vince was not going to allow.