10 Things You Didn't Know About WWE Backlash
2. Farewell, Owen
Just a month shy of his tragic death at 1999's Over The Edge pay-per-view, Owen Hart wrestled his final match as part of a tag team tussle to determine the Number One contenders for X-Pac and Kane's doubles gold.
With the champions split off into separate battles with Corporation members Triple H and the Big Boss Man on the night, it fell to the four to carry the division as they had throughout most of the prior year under the disjointed pencil of Vince Russo. Jarrett would later infer that his run with Owen was a career highlight, and Hart too seemed reinvigorated following a mishandled babyface run in the wake of the Montreal Screwjob and an equally ill-conceived heel turn as part of the Nation of Domination.
Such was the era, most of the heat during the match was subdued by a long and sustained 'Show Your Puppies' directed at Debra cultivated by Road Dogg's opening spiel. The lewd distraction represented everything Owen refused to accept about his role in the company at the time, and his performance in the contest as a slimy-but technically sound heel was typically consummate.