5 things you need to know about AEW's Owen Hart Cup

#1. AEW's Owen Hart Cup winners will receive "The Owen"

AEW, together with Dr. Martha Hart, will hand out awards to the winners of the men's and women's tournaments, appropriately called the "Owen". AEW owner Tony Khan hopes it will become a significant trophy for wrestlers in the future.

In an interview with Josh Martinez for Z100 New York, Tony Khan talked about the idea for calling the trophy the "Owen":

"During the pandemic, being stuck at home, I spent a lot of time building relationships with people all over the world, and Chris Jericho is a big relationship builder too, and he spent a lot of time building relationships. He had built this really good relationship with Martha Hart, and they had gotten to know each other and he introduced me to her and said that he thought it would be great if we work together to honor Owen somehow."

"I had this idea for an Owen Hart Cup. In movies, they have the Oscars, and in TV, the Emmys and so forth, so I thought it’d be really cool if there was 'The Owen' in wrestling. That'd be a trophy that everybody could win. So, I’m very excited to talk more about The Owen soon. Without revealing all the details, The Owen will be a very important trophy in wrestling." (H/T eWrestlingNews.com)

It's a fun nod to the WWE Slammy as well, which Owen famously paraded around as part of his gimmick as The King of Harts. Whoever wins the tournaments can claim to be the first holder of this trophy which honors the wrestler's amazing legacy.