1. Dean Hart was the son of Stu and Helen Hart and the younger brother of Smith, Bruce, Keith and Wayne, as well as older brother of Ellie, Georgia, Bret, Alison, Ross, Diana and Owen Hart.
22 Facts About Dean Hart
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Dean Hart died at the age of 36 in 1990, from a heart attack induced by kidney failure.
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Dean Hart was of Greek descent through his maternal grandmother and Irish through his maternal grandfather.
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Dean Hart's father was mainly of Scots-Irish descent but had Scottish and English ancestry.
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Dean Hart was the first of his siblings to win an amateur wrestling championship at high school.
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Dean Hart helped out behind the scenes for Stampede later on but remained mostly preoccupied with other endeavours during the 80s.
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Dean Hart worked together with his brothers Bret and Bruce in Dory Funk's Amarillo wrestling promotion in Texas during the very early 70s.
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Dean Hart regularly filled in as a referee for his older brother Wayne when Wayne was sick, Dean Hart portrayed his character as a less traditional sympathetic light than Wayne, being more a competent, strict and fair judge as opposed to a heroic one, to differentiate their characters more as Wayne was Stampede's main "babyface" referee.
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On one occasion in 1988, Dean Hart was forced to judge a match alone without a partner as Jurgen Hermann, who was meant to be the main referee of the match, was absent from the show for unknown reasons, and Wayne was out with a knee injury.
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Dean Hart ended up accidentally botching the finish of the match, leading to Benoit regaining the title from Smith.
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Dean Hart vacationed many times and lived in Hawaii for lengthy times and befriended many wrestlers there, among them Prince Sui who later worked for his Stampede Wrestling on recommendation from Dean Hart.
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Dean Hart was later associated with Lia Maivia and Peter Maivia's Hawaii promotion, which was under the National Wrestling Alliance.
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Dean Hart began promoting music shows at a very young age and held the first ever outdoors concert in Calgary when he was nineteen years old; the event was called Fantasy Park and featured people such as Charlie Rich and comedian Billie Holiday as well as model Barbi Benton as a special guest.
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Dean Hart regularly promoted music concerts in Clearwater Beach, which was owned by his father.
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Dean Hart booked musical acts such as The Doors and Joe Cocker.
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Dean Hart and his girlfriend Tammy had a daughter named Farrah Dean Hart, born in April 1990.
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Dean Hart suffered serious injuries in 1978 when struck by a city bus; the accident severely damaged his kidneys.
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Dean Hart told his family very little of the accident.
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Dean Hart's death had a severe effect on his brother Bret, making him extremely distraught as he felt that they had grown apart too much in their later years.
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Dean Hart was unsatisfied with how their last interactions had ended up, leaving him feeling like their relationship never got to recover like he wanted, and that in difference from their younger brother Owen, who died in 1999, affected things between them that could have been said and sorted out, but never were.
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Dean Hart's death shook the family's feeling of aplomb and the sense of invincibility that they had developed as a tight knit group, semi-isolated from mainstream society outside of the wrestling business.
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Dean Hart's death was the day before the WWF Survivor Series that year, and commentator Roddy Piper stated that Bret dedicated his match to Dean.