New details on WWE legend Owen Hart’s tragic death in the ring as Vince McMahon explains why the show went on

FORMER WWE boss Vince McMahon has spoken out about Owen Hart’s tragic ring death – and why the show went on.

The 34-year-old fell to his death during a WWE live pay-per-view event in 1999.

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Hart was let into the ring for his appearance at the Over The Edge PPV show in Kansas City, Missouri.

A live audience filled Kemper Arena to see Hart perform as The Blue Blazer against The Godfather.

The lights were turned off as the wrestler was let into the ring, but a malfunction in his equipment caused him to fall 78 feet.

Hart fell from the top rope, the trauma of the impact killing him.

Neither those watching at home nor the audience saw the fall, only realizing that Hart was in danger as medical teams rushed into the ring.

Former WWE boss McMahon appeared in the new Netflix documentary “Mr. McMahon” addressed the incident.

The event continued after the incident, with McMahon stating: “The decision I had to make was whether or not the show would go on.”

“The live audience didn’t really see what happened. If it had been like that, I would have had to quit the show.”

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Commentator Jim Ross announced Hart’s death to stunned fans on the live broadcast about an hour after the fall.

But McMahon is adamant he did the right thing in keeping the event going since fans in the arena were not told about Hart’s death.

He continued: “These people came to see a show. They didn’t come to see anyone die.”

“And for me as a businessman, it’s like, ‘Okay, let’s move on. Let’s keep the show going.’”

Hart’s brother Bret was also a wrestler in the WWE.

He left the company in 1997 and initially criticized McMahon for his decision to keep the event going.

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Bret also claimed that McMahon would have stopped the event if his son Shane had been “splashed to the mat.”

McMahon continued, “There were actually a lot of negative comments about whether or not the show should have continued.”

“Of course Bret will feel like a brother.

“He had every right to say something negative about our company.

“If it had been me, not just my son, if it had been me ‘splashing on the mat’ as Bret said, I would want the show to go on.”

“So get me out of there, you know, and let the show go on. I would do it with myself and I would still do that to this day.”