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3. Owen Hart
Unquestionably the saddest story from a bout with several punctuated tales, Owen Hart would be dead less than two years after possibly the greatest night of his professional life.
Carried out in an early portion of the match, he returned late in the contest to defeat Stone Cold Steve Austin in the last pinfall loss 'The Rattlesnake' would take on pay-per-view for over a year. The fall would inadvertently lead to a chain of events that would irreversibly change both men's lives and careers.
Owen's glory in Calgary was presented as cheap and deceitful on television, as the '2x Slammy Award Winner' gloated relentlessly over his victory in order to bait Austin into the potentially disastrous 'Kiss My Ass' match at August's SummerSlam '97 card. The inane stipulation was completely forgotten late in the contest when an infamous Owen tombstone nearly paralysed 'The Rattlesnake'.
It would be his inability to wrestle that crafted a brand new raison d'être for Stone Cold that Autumn, but his unending war with authority would still require actual matches following his return. Now the biggest star in the entire industry, Austin had no interest in working with Owen ever again, effectively freezing him out of ever being a main event player.
Relegated to comedy despite his myriad of talents, Owen tragically fell to his death during May 1999's Over The Edge pay-per-view after an equipment failure during his descent from the rafters as 'The Blue Blazer'. He was just 34.