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Owen was amazing. I started watching WWF in like 1993 and I always HATED Owen, but in the best possible way. He always made me laugh, I always knew his matches would have something that tricked me into thinking wrestling was real. He was really creative, and did have a certain formula, but not as strict of one as Bret, so his big matches come off more creative to me than Bret's. But he was a chicken shit heel, and that is a total different style than Bret was, plus Bret was a high level main eventer, the both served different purposes. The only thing you can say for sure is that when they worked together, you'll rarely find two better partners in the ring. They were fantastic together.
There were two or three times when WWE pushed Owen as a strong baby face, December 97 against Shawn, very interesting program. That was the best time to put the title on Owen if you weren't going to do it in 94 against Bret. Then that run continued into 98 and Owen adopted a Steve Austinesque persona and was fucking awesome, but that got cut off and they turned him heel again.
I was watching Over the Edge old school style, listening to it mostly scrambled on the PPV channel. I was like 10 years old, I didn't realize how much I loved him til he was gone. Always one of the best characters on WWF TV. RIP Owen
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