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Pain and Passion: The History of Stampede Wrestling |  | Author: Heath McCoy
Publisher: Ecw Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 944267
Media: Paperback
Edition: Rev Exp
Pages: 336
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 1
ISBN: 1550227874
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.812
EAN: 9781550227871
ASIN: 1550227874
Publication Date: October 1, 2007
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Product Description
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.
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 Rubberneckin the White Trash Train Wreck that is the Hart Family, part 2 February 23, 2010
Fritz Gerlich (admin@audioetc.info)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This isn't a bad book, but it is very sanitized and there is too much recounting of the wrestlin soap opera story-lines for my enjoyment. But I think he does an adequate job at giving one a feel for the disgusting, smelly, blood-soaked, mentally ill world of small time wrestling. I would suggest reading this book and the one by Diana Hart "Under the Mat", to get a real feeling for the personalities involved.
Here are some of the things you'll get to read about:
1) Flesh Eating Disease
2) Rape and Sodomy
3) F.A.S. Babies
4) Incest
5) Wife Abuse
6) Child Abuse
7) Murder
8) Some guy having the bottom of his feet burned with a blowtorch & having his ears cut off
9) Date rape drugs
10) a 37 year old substitute teacher having sex and latter marrying a junior school student
11) gang bangs initiated by the student in #10
12) 55 year old, 250 pound skank servicing 18 wrestlers in a van
13) Yelling, screaming, and more yelling
14) crazy old dude who's great joy in life is making people (including children) scream/vomit/lose bowel control/lose consciousness because they are in so much pain from whatever bizarre submission hold the crazy old dude has them in
15) a father who has his daughters legs smashed with a hammer so he can collect more in a car crash insurance claim
16) Psychopaths and sociopaths and narcissists
17) a pickled mom who constantly tells her children she is going to kill herself
18) Moms who live with roid raging violent sadists despite having children in the house
19) Drugs (cocaine (crack and powdered), steroids, horse tranquilizers, morphine, uppers, downers, GBH, dozens of pain killers, booze, marijuana, hash, ecstasy, antidepresants, etc etc)
20) untreated schizophrenia
21) untreated kidney disease leading to death
22) moms who become hookers and IV drug users
23) animal abuse
24) woman eaten by 'wrastlin' grizzly bear who lived in their yard
25) crazed vicious psycho dog
26) house filled with 18 cats and cat piss
27) house that never gets cleaned
28) child porn
Those two books should give you an glimpse into a world that you'll want to keep your kids far far far away from.
"Mama, don't let your children grow up to be wrastlers (or marry them for that matter)..."
[note: I should mention that the only two people in the stampede saga to look like you people you'd actually want for neighbors are Owen and Martha Hart. Owen died, and Marth has nothing to do with the rest of the Hart losers.]
 A very good book November 18, 2009
C. Proctor (Philadelphia, PA)
A interesting story about the rise, fall & tragedy of stampede wrestling. It's sad that tragedy, money & greed tore this family apart.
A Great Read for Anyone interested in Wrestling History April 15, 2009
Mick (PA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book was extremely well written and researched for a wrestling book. The stories included were all very interesting and it had a great history of Stampede Wrestling following it from its creation until the very end. The book told stories about the good and the bad of Stampede Wrestling. If you are looking for a good read about Stampede this is the book you want.
The Best January 8, 2009
Hermy
One of the best books on wrestling - if not the best - ever written. Heath has a great writing style that keeps you interested to the last page. If you like this book also pick up "Lord of the Ring". A great book about Stu Hart and his clan.
This is the definative book on Stampede wrestling September 17, 2008
J. Hicks (Alabama, USA)
I grew up in the deep south of the United States. Thus, wrestling wise, I grew up on Memphis, Continental, and NWA wrestling. I only knew of Stampede wrestling through the Apter magazines and was exposed to their top stars only when several came to the WWF in the mid-1980's.
Recently I read the awful Ring of Hell book which was an extremely unbalanced look at Stampede wrestling. As I discussed the book on my classic wrestling audio show at Wrestling Observer's website, several of my listeners recommended this book for a more complete view of the promotion.
They were right.
This is a fantastically well written book taking you from beginning to end. All the greats of Stampede wrestling are covered in great detail in this book including: Bret Hart, Owen Hart, Chris Benoit, the Mongolian Stomper, Bad News Allen, Davey Boy Smith, the Dynamite Kid, Bruce Hart, Keith Hart, David Schultz, the Honky Tonk Man, Andre the Giant, and much more. Also this book features great biographical details on the patriarch of the Hart family; Stu.
Heath McCoy has done the best job to date in summarizing the history of a classic wrestling promotion.
If you are a fan of any of the above mentioned wrestlers or just want to know more about classic Canadian wrestling or you want to read more about one of the most dysfunctional families in wrestling history then this is a must read.
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