Terry Funk on Owen Hart's death

Hey everyone,

I haven't posted here in a while and would like to get your thoughts on something I recently read.

I just got done reading Terry Funk's autobiography and he touched on something that made me think. He says in his book that he feels him and Mick Foley could have prevented Owen's tragic accident had they spoken up a year earlier.

Funk cited an incident in 1998 where a then WWF technician or crew member forgot to put the cap on his Chainsaw when he went out to the ring as Chainsaw Charlie and as he was flinging and waving his chainsaw around, the gasoline going on him but he didn't realize it until he tried to get a spark going from the Chainsaw, which was frozen and had a grinder on it. He said by the grace of God that the Chainsaw didn't get a spark [even though he kept trying to get one after realizing what the foul odor was] or else he would have ignited.

A second incident was Foley and Taker's Hell in a Cell match where who ever was suppose to re-enforce the cage, did a miserable job as the spot was to see Foley take the chokeslam on top of the cell and not go through the roof of the cell.

A third incident was the tag-team dumpster match at Mania 14 where someone managed to miss a giant 2-by-12 plank in the bottom of the dumpster and when Funk and Road Dogg went into the dumpster during their big spot, they landed right on the board and to this day, Funk has no muscle tone in the right cheek of his rear and it is just an indentation of where he once had a rear cheek.

Funk went on to say that he doesn't know if those people were involved in Owen's accident but he has felt that had him and Foley spoke up and said something during those incidents and made them a bigger deal, maybe the company would have looked more carefully at everything else they did after that, including Owen's stunt into the ring a year later, instead of Owen dying as a result of the "pressed for time" attitude during the Monday Night Wars.

Just something to think about.