10 Things We Learned From Owen Hart’s Final Day: A POST Profile
7. The Cancelled Max Mini Cameo
A trivia tidbit if nothing else, the information that Max Mini was supposed to be part of the stunt and eventual match between The Blue Blazer and The Godfather highlights the absurd juxtaposition of low-rent Attitude Era comedy with the single saddest tragedy to ever engulf the organisation.
The joke wasn't funny anymore (if it ever even was) but the Blazer already had bells and whistles before descending from the rafters with a little person strapped to him - it was the entire point of the persona. An 1980s relic in the hard-edged kayfabe WWE landscape a decade later, it morbidly reflected the organisation's waste of Owen Hart's fabulous in-ring talents.
It was widely known that he was only staying in to get out - Pollock reminds listeners that Hart and wife Martha had just purchased a brand new home she eventually had to move into as a widow and single mother, whilst anecdotes following Owen's death all made assertions that he had every intention of leaving wrestling when he'd made the modest amount of money required to live a life without it.
Capes, masks, and a Max Mini were inane accoutrements, but having absurd add-ons were the only prices of the profession he should have been made to pay.