3) Owen Hart Ribs His Dad
One of my favorite rib stories about Owen Hart is the time that he messed with his legendary father: Stu Hart. The story is told by Bret Hart in his book: Hitman: My Real Life in the Cartoon World of Wrestling.
Owen prank phone called his dad, pretending to be one of his old buddies:
“On the morning of WrestleMania V, a call came for Stu, who stood in his long, striped nightshirt talking with a big smile on his face. “Yeah, Reg . . . how the hell are you?” Reg Park had been a respected bodybuilder once upon a time. He was an easygoing guy and the conversation started out friendly, but Stu couldn’t believe his ears when Reg suddenly said, “Stu, you were always afraid of me. You never had the balls to try me, or I would have shoved your head up your a**!”
Bret continues, saying Stu flipped out upon hearing this:
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“Stu was pacing the room with the receiver pressed hard against his cauliflower ear, his jaw set like granite. “Reg, if you wanted to try me, why didn’t you try me?” Even the veins in his sturdy white legs seemed to swell with rage—I was sure Stu was about to head downstairs and face off with Reg right there in the lobby!”
The big finale:
“Then Stu abruptly sat on the bed and slammed the phone down. A shy, almost embarrassed smile broke over my dad’s face. One I’ll never forget. “That was Owen. The little bastard got me!” (Source: Hitman: My Real Life in the Cartoon World of Wrestling.)
4) X-Pac’s Eyebrows
Kevin Nash appeared on the Steve Austin Show podcast where he told the story about X-Pac having one of his eyebrows shaved off. X-Pac went out drinking with Curt Hennig, Bart and Billy Gunn for his birthday. When he woke up, he was missing an eyebrow:
“Pac did that angle when he was the 1-2-3 Kid. It was his 21st birthday, Kid [X-pac], Hennig and the Smoking Gunn’s took him out, Bart and Billy Gunn. The next day he shows up at TV and he’s missing an eyebrow. They got him all f***ed up and shaved his eyebrow”
To make it even worse, it was picture day for him the very next day. This meant that he had his first picture taken with missing eyebrows.
“Now Kid makes the decision to shave both his eyebrows. So he gets to TV and lo and behold, they’re going to shoot his 8×10. So that son of a b**** on his 8×10 has got no eyebrows. Back then there wasn’t no money in the WWF so I think that photo followed him for about two years” (Source: The Steve Austin Show)
As we will find out in the next story, X-Pac would get some revenge!
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