Hart wrestling family
| Ethnicity |
Irish Canadian Greek American |
|---|---|
| Current region | Calgary, Alberta |
| Earlier spellings | Hardt |
| Place of origin | Canada |
| Members | |
| Connected members |
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| Connected families | Billington family |
| Distinctions | Wrestling Family |
| Traditions |
Professional wrestling Sunday dinner |
| Estate | Hart Mansion |
| Name origin and meaning | German meaning Hard. Spoken with Irish Ulster Scots dialects. |
| See also: Scotch-Irish Canadians | |
The Hart wrestling family is a Canadian American family with a significant history within professional wrestling. The patriarch of the family was wrestling legend, WWE Hall of Famer and Order of Canada recipient Stu Hart (1915–2003). An amateur and professional wrestling performer, promoter and trainer, Stu not only owned and operated his own wrestling promotion, Stampede Wrestling, but also trained some of the most well known and successful stars in wrestling history including Superstar Billy Graham, Fritz Von Erich, Edge, Chris Jericho, Chris Benoit, Christian and his sons Bret Hart and Owen Hart. All of Stu's eight sons were wrestlers and two of them, Bret and Owen, achieved considerable fame and success in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE), with many of the WWF's biggest storylines in the mid-1990s being built around Bret and Owen and their brothers-in-law.
As of 2014, the only Hart actively working in WWE is Stu's granddaughter Natalie "Natalya" Neidhart, but Bret makes occasional guest appearances while WWE employs Dungeon graduates Tyson Kidd (also Neidhart's husband), and former world champions Chris Jericho, Christian, and Mark Henry.
Helen had initially been told by doctors that she may not be able to bear children at all because she was born prematurely, this turned out to be incorrect and Helen originally wanted to have 15 children but could not due to medical reasons.
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