I tried replying to this earlier but I was just getting rambly and a mess and... ugh. I still remember that Sunday very well, it was a normal morning at first, then I caught a mention of his passing somewhere online-- I can't remember where now, it's the one thing I can't-- and going to WWE.com, then Chris Jericho's message board before telling my father. It was so surreal and just... horrifying. I had been watching wrestling for a couple months when Owen Hart died in 1999, but I was too young (Not even 13 yet) and new to the business to really think much more than just "That's sad
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Yeah, I think that's what made it such a hardship to endure -- the fact that it was so sudden and unexpected. I've read a lot of people's stories on where they were and how they felt when they heard the news and what a lot of them have in common is denial that he passed away until they went to WWE.com to see for themselves. And I get getting emotional and not wanting anyone to notice. I was like that, too. I don't like crying with other people around, especially people who don't get the sadness over a wrestler's passing
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Yeah... Owen's, I wasn't home when it happened, but Dad was 'watching' the PPV. Back in those days, we could listen to PPVs because our cable was 'special', lol. I remember spending hours listening to a black screen, haha, until they upgraded things and corrected the 'issue'! So I came home and Dad told me he died before he had to go to work third shift. It was around the time of the tribute show that Dad told me wrestling was 'faked'. Heh
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Oh wow, that's a horrible time for him to tell you that it's "faked", especially since Owen had just died. Were you aware that it was predetermined at the time?
Yeah, learning all the details is what got me. I mean, it was a pretty brutal death and I hate that it happened to him and that so many people witnessed it. What a tragedy. :-(
Same here. I've only seen Eddie and Benoit's tribute shows and both were sad, although Eddie's hit me harder. And even with everything that came out of Chris' death, I'm still sad that he's gone. But yeah, no more tribute shows. That's just too much sadness to bear.
I don't even have the DVD set. I need to get it, though. I'm just glad I got the book when I did. I can imagine how hard it is to watch that stuff. :-(
Oh cool! It's awesome that you have that stuff. I just have his book and WWE mags that he's in. I have a SD mag with him on the cover. It's one of fave WWE mag covers. :-)
You know I've never been a huge fan... so I'm still surprised how sad his passing made me. Every year around this time, I read through notes like yours from my friends and can't help but remember, too. I don't know when/how I found out, but I do know that it was just days before the European tour and I really didn't feel like going to any of the shows anymore. But it turned out to be an honor to be able to celebrate Eddie and his life in the following days at the shows because nobody - not the wrestlers in the ring and neither the audience - forgot about him. Yeah, the show had to go on but he was there in spirit with everyone. One of my fondest memories of that time is when we were sitting at the bar the first night and there were quite a few people, just clinking their glasses and saying "To Eddie!" That was special.
Awwwww. Yeah, I wasn't the biggest Eddie fan on the block at first but I starting LOVING him towards the final years of his life. I remember having a lot of respect for him after I read an interview he did with WWE magazine (or Raw or SD, one of those) where he talked about his demons and how he became a Christian and lived a much better life. At the time, I was unaware of his life story so it opened my eyes to him a bit more and I was always fond of him as a human being because of that. And then shortly after that, he began his "Lie, Cheat, Steal" gimmick and that love just grew. There was a period of time where I enjoyed Smackdown a thousand times more than Raw and Eddie was one of those reasons as to why. Eddie, to me, was pretty much the only Mexican wrestler that's ever stood out to me but his charisma was infectious.
It still warms my heart to see fans and wrestlers alike keep Eddie's memory alive and how everyone honors him each year. I think it really goes to show how much he impacted people.
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Yeah, learning all the details is what got me. I mean, it was a pretty brutal death and I hate that it happened to him and that so many people witnessed it. What a tragedy. :-(
Same here. I've only seen Eddie and Benoit's tribute shows and both were sad, although Eddie's hit me harder. And even with everything that came out of Chris' death, I'm still sad that he's gone. But yeah, no more tribute shows. That's just too much sadness to bear.
I don't even have the DVD set. I need to get it, though. I'm just glad I got the book when I did. I can imagine how hard it is to watch that stuff. :-(
Oh cool! It's awesome that you have that stuff. I just have his book and WWE mags that he's in. I have a SD mag with him on the cover. It's one of fave WWE mag covers. :-)
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It still warms my heart to see fans and wrestlers alike keep Eddie's memory alive and how everyone honors him each year. I think it really goes to show how much he impacted people.
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