Ross Hart

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Ross Hart
Birth name Ross Lindsay Hart[1][2]
Born (1960-01-03) January 3, 1960 (age 64)[1]
Calgary, Alberta, Canada[3]
Family Hart
Jack Pfefer, godfather[4]
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s) Ross Hart
Ross Lindsey[2]
Ross Lindsay[2]
Rory Hunter[5]
Trained by Stu Hart
Debut 1985[6]
Retired 2005[7]

Ross Lindsay Hart,[1] (born January 3, 1960)[8] is a Canadian-American retired professional wrestler, promoter, trainer, booker, TV producer, coach and actor.[9] Hart is a member of the Hart wrestling family and the second youngest son of Stu and Helen Hart. He is best known for his several appearances in WWE and Stampede Wrestling, often with his siblings Bruce, Keith, Bret, Diana and Owen Hart.

Early life

Hart is of Irish descent through his maternal grandfather and Greek descent through his maternal grandmother.[10][11][12][13] His father was mainly of Scots-Irish descent but also had Scottish and English ancestry.[14][15] Hart is a dual citizen of Canada and the United States due to his mother Helen Hart being from New York.[16][17] Hart grew up in a household with 11 siblings, Smith, Bruce, Keith, Wayne, Dean, Ellie, Georgia, Bret, Alison, Diana and Owen.[18]

Hart's middle name was given to him in honor of his father's longtime friend Luther Lindsay.[19]

Hart has stated that his earliest memory is hearing his father Stu training wrestlers in their family basement, known as The Dungeon.[20]

Hart's first experience working for his father's promotion Stampede Wrestling was selling programs for the shows when he was six years old.[20]

Professional wrestling career

In the ring

Stampede Wrestling

In the 80s Hart wrestled for the original Stampede Wrestling having matches with wrestlers such as Drago Zhivago,[21] Cuban Assassin, Gerry Morrow, Biff Wellington, Jude Rosenbloom, Chris Benoit, Goldie Rogers, Steve Blackman, Steve DiSalvo, Vokhan Singh, Great Gama, Mike Hammer, Beef Wellington, Mr. Hito, Vladimir Krupoff, Adolph Barbee, George Skaaland and brother in-law BJ Annis.[22] Hart worked in tag team matches with Keiichi Yamada, Ken Johnson, George Skaaland and Johnny Smith as well as with his brothers Bruce against the Cuban Commandos.[22] He participated in three-man tag team matches with his younger brother Owen and brother in-law Ben Bassarab against Drago Thomas, Gama Singh and Vladimir Krupoff as well.[22] During this period he also took part in battle royales with many of the aforementioned wrestlers and competed for the Stampede British Commonwealth Mid-Heavyweight Championship.[22]

Sporadic work and appearances for WWF

In the 80s Hart worked in the UK and wrestled on the program World of Sport in singles matches against Marty Jones[23] and in tag team matches with his brother Owen against Fit Finlay and Rocky Moran.[24]

Hart shortly worked for WWF in the 90's and appeared on the television program WWF Wrestling Challenge under the ring name Ross Lindsey.[25] During his time there he mostly wrestled Ted DiBiase in singles matches and tag teamed with Mike Pocari against The Orient Express, with Barry Hardy against Power And Glory or with Mike Morgan and Ron Cumberledge against Demolition.[22]

In 1994 hart worked for All Star Wrestling in england for a short period. He wrestled in victorious singles matches with Red Bronco, Johnny Angel, Duke Lynch, Count Von Zuppi, Drew McDonald. Duke Lynch being the only one he wrestled more than once.[22]

At the 1994 SummerSlam Hart can be seen attempting to climb the cage in which his brothers Bret and Owen Hart had their match together with other members of the Hart family.[26][27]

Return to Stampede Wrestling and Wrestlemania appearance

Hart continue to wrestle sporadically for the 1999-2007 incarnation of Stampede Wrestling, having matches with wrestlers such as Rod Rage, Juggernaut, Cuban Assassin, Ryan Evans and Apocalypse before retiring in 2005.[28][22]

Hart appeared again for WWF (now renamed WWE) in an in ring capacity at WrestleMania XXVI, where he was a lumberjack for his brother Bret's first WWE match in 13 years, a No Holds Barred Lumberjack match against the WWE chairman Vince McMahon. The storyline was that McMahon had paid of Ross and the rest of the Hart family to betray Bret, but all of them turned on him and helped Bret win the match.[29][30]

Promoting and booking

Hart worked as a Television Producer on the original Stampede Wrestling.[31]

Hart together with his brother Bruce relaunched their father's Stampede Wrestling promotion in 1999.[32][33][34] Ross usually handled promotion in the smaller Alberta towns such as Hanna, Didsbury and Cochrane while Bruce took care of Ogden Legion.[35]

In 2005 Hart worked as senior advisor and commissioner for Celtic Pro Wrestling in Ireland.[36][37]

Other work in wrestling

Ross and his brother Bruce started the Stampede wrestling hall of fame together. Together they also owned the copyright to many of the Stampede Wrestling tapes, some of which they gave to their brother Bret and some who they sold to WWE.[38][39][40]

Ross helped design his niece Natalya's ring costume, he criticised how revealing the original version was and opted to change it.[41]

In 2014 Ross inducted long time wrestling photographer Bob Leonard into the High Impact Wrestling Hall of Fame.[42]

Hart appeared on WWE television on stage together with all his living siblings when his father Stu Hart was posthumously inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame.[43]

Other media

In 2006 Hart portrayed Humphrey Bogart in a theatrical rendition of Play It Again, Sam at the Workshop Theatre in Calgary.[44]

Hart has appeared in several documentaries, including Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows, Bret Hart: Survival of the Hitman, Surviving the Dungeon: The Legacy of Stu Hart and Hart & Soul: The Hart Family Anthology.[45][46][47]

In 2015 Hart appeared alongside his sister Diana on Shaw TV to speak about their father Stu's one hundred birthday.[48]

Personal life

Since the passing of Hart family patriarch and matriarch Stu and Helen Hart, the traditional Sunday dinner is held at Ross's home.[49]

Hart was the godson of wrestler and promoter Jack Pfefer.[50]

Hart appeared at the Cauliflower Alley Club reunion in Las Vegas in February 2001.[51]

Hart is a childhood friend of fellow wrestler Milad Elzein who is the same age, he would sometimes help Hart sell programs before the Stampede shows when they were young.[52]

In July 4, 1989 Hart was involved in an automobile accident near Jasper, Alberta together with Davey Boy Smith, Chris Benoit, Karl Moffat and Katsumi Kitahara. Hart who was in the drivers seat and wearing a seatbelt receaved minor injuries, Smith who was sitting next to him and not wearing a seabelt had his head smashed trought the windsheld resulting in a wound which recuired a hundred stitches. Karl Moffat was injured the most, one of his ancles was crushed by spare tire. After the incident Moffat attemped to sue Hart, claiming he had been cripled by the event, but he did not suced in reciving any compensation since a moving company Moffat had worked for suplied evidence of him moving around resonably well after the accident.[53][54]

In wrestling

Wrestlers trained

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See also

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References

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  5. ↑ The Official Page of Natalya, @NatbyNature: "Visiting with my uncle Ross Hart, aka Rory Hunter! He was one of my first coaches when I started wrestling in 2001!" Cf. https://twitter.com/natbynature/status/279706252244840450
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  43. ↑ Bret Hart and the Hart family speak on behalf of Stu Hart
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  46. ↑ Surviving The Dungeon Extra: Ross Hart on The Hart Siblings (1 of 2)
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  48. ↑ Trending On Shaw May 1st Part 01; Diana and Ross Hart
  49. ↑ The Official Fan Page of Smith Hart: "Unfortunately I will be missing my brother Ross' big family dinner, which is a continuation of the Sunday dinners my dad used to make" Cf. https://www.facebook.com/smith.hart.5/posts/277536355662912
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Further reading

Book
  • McCoy, Heath. Pain and Passion: The History of Stampede Wrestling. Toronto: CanWest Books, 2005. ISBN 0-9736719-8-X
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External links

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