Read Mick Foley's first book and you'll get a treasure trove of CMOF's concerning Owen. One of the funnier ones being the deliberately bad "popcorn bag" match between Foley and Owen whose sole purpose was to make "Stone Cold" Steve Austin break character and laugh at ringside. It worked. (For context: the match consisted of Mick and Owen attacking each other with a bag of popcorn. As Mick put it, Owen sold the blows from the popcorn bag “like he was being shot”. It cumulated with popcorn all over the ring, with Mick laying on his back making a snow angel in the popcorn while Owen applied the boots to him). Austin's response? "You two are the shits."
When he flipped out and beat up Jason Sensation for making fun of him along with DeGeneration X, putting him in a sharpshooter.
Owen had a notorious reputation as a practical joker behind the scenes. Among those he pulled were:
During a match against The Rock, he told Rock to give him a shoulderblock. Upon receiving it, Owen went down in slow motion.note Another funny Rock-Owen story: Rock's very first WWF match was against Owen, who was doing the loaded cast gimmick on his right arm. Rocky didn't know the "injury" was part of an angle and started working the left arm, leading Owen to say "What the fuck are you doing, kid? Grab the other arm!" (American and Japanese wrestlers are trained to do everything from the right side, Mexico works on the left.) After the match Vince McMahon asked Owen what he thought and Owen said "Oh yeah, he's gonna be a star."
In a match against his brother, Bret, Owen hid some sardines in one of the turnbuckles before the card. During the match, Owen stuffed the sardines in Bret's mouth, and held Bret's mouth shut in a Camel Clutch so he couldn't spit them out.
While working the phone lines for WWF's 900 number, Owen handed Jim Cornette a phone and said it was for him. Cornette answered it and the person on the other end was Owen's father, Stu Hart. Cornette didn't believe it (he thought it was Bruce Prichard, who could do a good imitation of Stu) and played along with hilarious results, until finding out it really was Stu Hart on the phone.
During a plane trip, Owen and Bret were seated in first class, while their brother-in-law, Davey Boy Smith (a very big muscular wrestler) sat in coach. They told Davey to come up and sit with them, then acted like they didn't know him when the stewardesses came around.
In a house show match where he teamed with Jeff Jarrett against Edge and Christian, Owen attacked Edge with a foreign object, hiding it in his arms. Referee Jim Korderas gave him a count of five to raise his arms, revealing what it was Owen hit Edge with. It was a napkin.
When Triple H and Henry Godwinn had their Hog Pen match, Owen happened to be backstage when the pigs got delivered, and directed the farmers to put them straight into Vince's office. His reaction is legendary.
Owen sat at the color commentary table during a tag team match involving the Hart Foundation. At one point Davey Boy Smith climbed one of the turnbuckles for a spot but ended up slipping and falling off the turnbuckle. When Jim Ross pointed out that he slipped, Owen quickly came to Davey Boy’s defense and said that he was pushed. Despite the fact that no one else had been near him when he slipped. Owen and Jim then proceeded to have a back and forth where Jim insisted that Davey Boy slipped and fell and Own insisted that Davey Boy was pushed.
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