Pain and Passion- The History of Stampede Wrestling (revised and expanded)

Publisher: ECW Press
Year: 2007
Leaves: 350
Edition: Rev Exp
Category: Fiction

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✦ Synopsis

Established in the 1940s by the legendary Stu Hart, Stampede Wrestling was a founding wrestling company that was highly influential. This dramatic account follows Stampede’s blood-on-the-mat saga of more than 50 years, from its grassroots beginnings in Calgary to its rise and bitter fall. Despite hosting some of the biggest names in the sport and developing many modern day wrestling staples, such as ladder matches, the emergence in the 1980s of the wildly popular WWE ultimately doomed the Stampede league to closure. The Hart family crumbled along with the league, with son Owen dying in the ring and other members torn apart by begrudging feuds and internal strife. Full of violence, sex, and drugs, this is a gripping tale of the birth of professional wrestling.

✦ Table of Contents

Copyright......Page 6
Dedication
......Page 7
Contents
......Page 9
Acknowledgments ix......Page 11
Introduction
......Page 13
1 Mutiny and the Sinking of Stampede Wrestling
......Page 17
2 Superman of the Prairies: Young Stu Hart
......Page 31
3 Raising Harts: The Early Years
......Page 48
4 The Dungeon
......Page 63
5 Pirates on the Prairies
......Page 71
6 TV, Slick Sammy, and a Jet Plane
......Page 86
7 Uncle Ed and the Wildcats
......Page 99
8 Butchers, Stompers, and Cheats
......Page 116
9 Overkill
......Page 131
10 The Age of Dynamite
......Page 149
11 Married to the Hart Mafia
......Page 162
12 Let the Good Times Roll
......Page 177
13 A Pop Culture Stampede
......Page 190
14 Bad News Rising
......Page 200
15 Back in the Saddle
......Page 221
16 The Death of Stampede Wrestling
......Page 236
17 Afterburn
......Page 250
18 The Death of Owen
......Page 269
19 Harts Torn Apart
......Page 280
20 Harts Go On
......Page 296
21 2007: The Third Generation and Wrestling’s Darkest Day
......Page 313
Endnotes
......Page 339
Photograph Sources
......Page 349

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