#5 Owen Hart
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Perhaps the entry that evokes the most sadness out of all the people on this list. Owen Hart spent his last days in WWE, and on this planet, as the cartoonish ‘Blue Blazer’. After a troubled few years which saw his Brother leave for WCW under more than controversial circumstances, Owen spent a period of time as a heel, joining The Rock’s Nation of Domination faction.
Then, in 1999, Owen seemingly quit the company in a storyline involving Dan Severn and Jeff Jarrett. But rather than remove himself entirely from WWE programming, he would start coming to the ring as the semi-comedic Blue Blazer character. It was a kind of subversion of WWF’s 1980’s superstars who encouraged the younger fans to ‘take their vitamins and drink their milk’. Blue Blazer did it obnoxiously, criticising the way the company had devolved into the seedy, reprehensible shenanigans of the Attitude Era.
Tragically, in 1999, Owen would make his final appearance at the Over the Edge PPV, falling to his death from high above the ring during an entrance gone awry. To this day, the promo Owen cut, wearing the Blue Blazer mask just before going out to the ring for his match, still holds a very eery, unpleasant feel to it. It’s a crying shame that the career and life of arguably the most talented member of the Hart family ended during a throwaway PPV during a period of high animosity between employer and employee.
It’s probably for this reason that the Blue Blazer character isn’t much discussed by the company, instead preferring fans to remember Owen as the blonde haired athletic mastermind who stole the show with this big brother in 1994 at Wrestlemania 10.
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