Top 10 emotional moments from the WWE

#10 Owen Hart's accidental death

No one could believe that it was true

It's not like pro wrestlers had never died before Owen Hart passed in 1999, but none had ever died so publicly (even though the pay-per-view audience never saw his accident take place). Nobody really knew how to respond when Jim Ross made the somber announcement, live, that Owen Hart had passed away. That's why so many people thought it was some weird storyline that the WWF had put together. He couldn't have actually died, could he?

Ross, stunned, said over and over again that what had happened was "not part of the storyline" and not "a wrestling angle"; trying to communicate to the world-wide PPV audience what had just happened: Owen Hart, while attempting a ring entrance in his "Blue Blazer" character descending on a wire from the ceiling, had fallen approximately 50 feet to the ring, hitting his head on a turnbuckle, breaking his neck.

Hart was given CPR in the ring in front of the live audience at Kemper Arena and then taken to Truman Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. Shortly afterward, Jim Ross made the announcement of Hart's death to the PPV audience. It was a pure moment of sorrow for each and every person in the arena.