7 Overdue inductions into the WWE Hall of Fame

#2 Owen Hart

Owen Hart: Untimely death is the barrier for Hall of Fame induction

Owen Hart was the youngest of Stu and Helen Hart’s 12 children.

Like his brother Bret, Owen achieved international stardom in wrestling. They were the only two of the Hart children to do so.

Owen was never as famous as his elder brother, but he was every bit his equal in the ring, evidenced by the pair's classic bouts at WrestleMania X and SummerSlam 1994. Owen upset Bret at 'Mania but failed to capture the WWE Championship from Bret inside the blue barred steel cage at SummerSlam.

Hart never did win the WWE Championship but he won every other major title in WWE. He reigned as Intercontinental, European and Tag Team Champion in a glittering career which was tragically cut short at the age of 34 in a horrific accident that occurred at the 1999 Over The Edge pay per view event.

During a gimmicked entrance, wherein he was supposed to be lowered into the ring from the ceiling, Owen's harness prematurely opened, sending him falling ninety feet to his death.

WWE would surely love to induct Owen into it's Hall of Fame and no doubt they would have done so many years ago had his widow, Martha not been so strongly opposed to it.

For that reason, Owen's WWE Hall of Fame induction seems likely to remain long overdue.