Martha Hart Shares Blog Reviewing Owen’s ‘Darkside of the Ring’ Episode

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There’s plenty to take away from the latest installment of Darkside of the Ring, the award-winning docuseries from Vice that outlined the final days of Owen Hart’s life in their season two finale on Tuesday night. The words from Owen’s family (wife, Martha; son, Oje; daughter, Athena) were particularly heartbreaking, as was the visual of the actual metal carabiner that was supposed to safely support his weight during the stunt at Over The Edge in 1999. It’s been 20 years since the tragedy that cut Owen’s life short but seeing the visual (below) really put things into perspective. There was negligence, no question.

Shortly after the episode finished airing, a blog post was posted to the Owen Hart Foundation Twitter account detailing the episode. The author of the post? Martha Hart, Owen’s widow. For over 1,000 words, Martha reviewed the doc, calling it “phenomenal” and the crew tasked with rigging her husband’s stunt in 1999 “substandard”.

In her opinion, the story told by Vice “touches on many fundamental aspects of the human experience such as duty, loyalty, respect, persevering, and forgiveness.”

While she’s not done fighting the WWE, she did note in her post that she has “forgiven them all” and wishes them “the absolute best in life.”

This was an amazing chapter in my life, and I wish it had been my entire book, but life doesn’t always turn out as we plan. So, walking on we all must do. I shared Owen and our life together with the World and I was happy to do that – it was an amazing First Act that I am so grateful for.

(via Martha Hart)

The entire post can be found here.

If you haven’t seen the episode, make sure to do it as soon as you can. Both Jim Ross and Jim Cornette are interviewed, each delivering moving anecdotes from May 23, 1999. It runs for 44 minutes but it could have been an hour and 44 minutes and I wouldn’t have minded a bit.

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