Ross Hart
| Ross Hart | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Ross Lindsay Hart |
| Born |
January 3, 1960 Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
| Family |
Hart Jack Pfefer, godfather |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Ross Hart Ross Lindsey Ross Lindsay Rory Hunter |
| Trained by | Stu Hart |
| Debut | 1985 |
| Retired | 2005 |
Ross Lindsay Hart, (born January 3, 1960) is a Canadian-American retired professional wrestler, promoter, trainer, booker, TV producer, coach and actor. 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 work in Stampede Wrestling and several appearances in WWE, often with his siblings Bruce, Keith, Bret, Diana and Owen Hart.
Hart is of Irish descent through his maternal grandfather and Greek descent through his maternal grandmother. His father was mainly of Scots-Irish descent but also had Scottish and English ancestry. Hart is a dual citizen of Canada and the United States due to his mother Helen Hart being from New York. Hart grew up in a household with 11 siblings, Smith, Bruce, Keith, Wayne, Dean, Ellie, Georgia, Bret, Alison, Diana and Owen.
Hart's middle name was given to him in honor of his father's longtime friend Luther Lindsay.
Hart has stated that his earliest memory is hearing his father Stu training wrestlers in their family basement, known as The Dungeon.
Hart's first experience working for his father's promotion Stampede Wrestling was selling programs for the shows when he was six years old.
In the 80s Hart wrestled for the original Stampede Wrestling having matches with wrestlers such as Drago Zhivago, 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. 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. 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. 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.
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