Dr. Tom Prichard Recalls Hotel Rib Owen Hart Pulled On Him

October 30, 2021

Owen Hart was quite the prankster, and Dr. Tom Prichard knows firsthand about being on the receiving end of a good old-fashioned ‘rib’ from him.

Dr. Tom Prichard, the former WWE trainer, recently appeared on the ‘It’s My Wrestling’ podcast and discussed Owen Hart’s famous ribs that he’d play on the locker room back in the day and said both were notorious for the pranks they’d play, but it was all in good fun.

“For the most part, Owen did harmless pranks and Curt did too, but you didn’t want to sleep around Curt Hennig! This is a different business [today] than the one I watched and grew up in. So, I don’t know if anybody knows how to have fun today, I don’t know if anybody understands what a rib really is. It’s not to be mean, although there were some mean ribs and there were some nasty ones, but there were some just funny ones, just to pass the time. I don’t think anybody took it as personal or as serious as we do today. You can’t do a lot of things we did back then, today, and thank God, because it’s a lot healthier lifestyle and it’s a lot safer for people.

“There’s the only rib that Owen ever played on me, and it was so harmless, we had checked into the same hotel, I’m checking out, I’m getting ready to go my phone rings, and it’s the front desk. ‘Hey, you need to get out you didn’t pay for another day.’ So I’m packing my bags now, and I’m getting ready to leave. ‘Well, you better be out next two minutes or I’m charging you for the day.’ And they were being a real asshole on the phone, and I went and stopped at the front desk and turned in my key. ‘Is everything okay?’ the guy looks and says. ‘Yeah I’m just leaving.’ So Owen asked me about it when I got to the building and he started laughing, then I realized he was the one who called, he just wanted to give me a bunch of shit. But Curt Hennig was the kind of guy who shave off your eyebrows or shave off one of eyebrow and shave off his eyebrows to show hey they got me too!”