AEW to honour Owen Hart's Legacy

[GoldenAzazel]

Pretty cool seeing Owen Hart's legacy being honoured in this way with action figures, being in a video game, and a tournament named after him. Happy to see Martha Hart allowing this to happen too.

 

[Frank23]

 

[CrippleWerk]

See now this is classy. Something that is completely foreign to Vince McMahon. "THE SHOW MUST GO ON, DAMNIT!!!"

 

[Halifax]

This is great. A way to preserve Owen 's legacy while not buckling under to the wwe.

Still one of the greatest losses in wrestling. Just listening to the pranks Owen used to play has me in stitches.

I fall over laughing every time I hear the story about trapping Davey boy in the sumo suit

 

[Prelimtapper]

This is amazing, but the weirdo WWE fans on twitter ripping Martha for taking the money can fuck right off. WWE killed her husband, you fucks

 

[Batjester]

WWE has tried to do this in the past, but understandably Martha wanted no part of it, so I'm glad she is allowing AEW to do it.


Any WWE fan putting Martha or AEW on blast is a fucking moron and needs to choke on a bag of Foot dicks.

 

[White Whale]

This is good and despite breaking Stone Cold’s neck with it I loved Owen Hart’s sit-out tombstone piledriver.

 

[moonwolf]

i hope the game's story mode has a part where Owen has a chance to turn down the other org and sign with AEW.

 

[SaigeVanZant]

i hope the game's story mode has a part where Owen has a chance to turn down the other org and sign with AEW.

First thing I'm doing os jobbing him to Wardlow

 

[moonwolf]

First thing I'm doing os jobbing him to Wardlow

lol at u being able to start at the final boss

 

[Frank23]

 

[El Moose]

 

[SaigeVanZant]

Some company needs to honor Benoit

 

[GoldenAzazel]

Some company needs to honor Benoit

Maybe Nancy and Daniel

 

[D.R.H.]

I think it's kind of exploitive...I guess that makes me a WWE mark...so be it.

 

[GoldenAzazel]

I think it's kind of exploitive...I guess that makes me a WWE mark...so be it.

The old cynical fart gives an old cynical fart take. What's new?

 

[D.R.H.]

The old cynical fart gives an old cynical fart take. What's new?

I think the tournament idea is cool...and using that as a way to both honor Owen's memory and raise money for the foundation is cool.

I don't know...when you start getting into swag and toys and video games...it starts seeming less like a altruistic idea and more like exploitation marketing. I would love to be wrong...but this kinda feels like how Wounded Warrior started out grass roots doing good for vets...and ended up a corporate marketing scheme taking advantage of the suffering of wounded troops to make CEO's rich.

 

[GoldenAzazel]

I think the tournament idea is cool...and using that as a way to both honor Owen's memory and raise money for the foundation is cool.

I don't know...when you start getting into swag and toys and video games...it starts seeming less like a altruistic idea and more like exploitation marketing. I would love to be wrong...but this kinda feels like how Wounded Warrior started out grass roots doing good for vets...and ended up a corporate marketing scheme taking advantage of the suffering of wounded troops to make CEO's rich.

If this was about money then Martha Hart would have cashed in years ago. It's nice that Owen's legacy can be preserved with all the things all the other legends get. He deserves it.

 

[D.R.H.]

If this was about money then Martha Hart would have cashed in years ago. It's nice that Owen's legacy can be preserved with all the things all the other legends get. He deserves it.

I'm not arguing against any of that. I'm just wary of anytime a small grass roots charity ends up with big corporate backers. More often than not what happens is the charity gets big...they end up getting taken over by corporate executives...and they go from given 90 cents of every dollar to actually aid and scholarships down to 30 and a board of rich executive directors get rich off of folks who think they're making a difference. Call me a cynical old man all you want...but you go find records on this bigger charities that show exactly what I'm talking about happens over and over again. I'm not going to apologize for thinking it's wrong or for thinking it's going to happen again...history repeats itself.

 

[GoldenAzazel]

I'm not arguing against any of that. I'm just wary of anytime a small grass roots charity ends up with big corporate backers. More often than not what happens is the charity gets big...they end up getting taken over by corporate executives...and they go from given 90 cents of every dollar to actually aid and scholarships down to 30 and a board of rich executive directors get rich off of folks who think they're making a difference. Call me a cynical old man all you want...but you go find records on this bigger charities that show exactly what I'm talking about happens over and over again. I'm not going to apologize for thinking it's wrong or for thinking it's going to happen again...history repeats itself.

The cynical part isn't you recognising that it happens, it's where you immediately assume it's automatically an immoral thing and also assume it's gonna go down the worst path.

AEW have been involved and done shows for small charities before, and not taken them over or done any of that shit.. No reason to think this will be any different.