28 Facts About Ross Hart

Hart is a member of the Hart wrestling family and the second youngest son of Stu and Helen Hart.

Ross Hart 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.

Ross Hart was born in Calgary, Canada on January 3,1960.

Ross Hart is of Irish descent through his maternal grandfather and Greek descent through his maternal grandmother.

Ross Hart's father was mainly of Scots-Irish descent but had Scottish and English ancestry.

Ross Hart is a dual citizen of Canada and the United States due to his mother Helen Ross Hart being from New York.

Ross Hart grew up in a household with 11 siblings, Smith, Bruce, Keith, Wayne, Dean, Ellie, Georgia, Bret, Alison, Diana and Owen.

Ross Hart has stated that his earliest memory is hearing his father Stu training wrestlers in their family basement, known as The Dungeon.

Ross Hart is a childhood friend of fellow wrestler Milad Elzein who is the same age, he would sometimes help Ross Hart sell the programmes before the Stampede shows when they were young.

Ross 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.

Ross Hart 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.

Ross Hart wrestled in victorious singles matches with Red Brocco, Johnny Angel, Duke Lynch, Count Von Zuppi, Drew McDonald.

Ross Hart appeared again for WWF in an in ring capacity at WrestleMania XXVI, where he was a lumberjack for his brother Bret's first WWE match in 13 years, a No Holds Barred Lumberjack match against the WWE chairman Vince McMahon.

Ross Hart worked as a Television Producer on the original Stampede Wrestling.

Ross Hart usually handled promotion in the smaller Alberta towns such as Hanna, Didsbury and Cochrane while Bruce took care of Ogden Legion.

In 2005 Ross Hart worked as senior advisor and commissioner for Celtic Pro Wrestling in Ireland.

Ross Hart helped design his niece Natalya's ring costume, he criticized how revealing the original version was and opted to change it.

In 2014 Ross Hart inducted long time wrestling photographer Bob Leonard into the High Impact Wrestling Hall of Fame.

Ross Hart appeared on WWE television on stage together with all his living siblings when his father Stu Ross Hart was posthumously inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame.

In 2017 Ross Hart served together with his older brother Bret as part of the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum's Distinguished Selection Committee, the committee decides which wrestlers will be inducted for that following year.

In 2006 Ross Hart portrayed Humphrey Bogart in a theatrical rendition of Play It Again, Sam at the Workshop Theatre in Calgary.

In 2015 Ross Hart appeared alongside his sister Diana on Shaw TV to speak about their father Stu's one hundredth birthday.

Ross's niece Lindsay Hart who is a make up artist and wrestling personality is named after his middle name.

On July 4,1989 Ross Hart was involved in an automobile accident near Jasper, Alberta together with Davey Boy Smith, Chris Benoit, Karl Moffat and Tatsumi Kitahara.

Ross Hart who was in the driver's seat and wearing a seatbelt received minor injuries, Smith who was sitting next to him and not wearing a seatbelt had his head smashed through the windshield resulting in a wound which required one hundred stitches.

Ross Hart appeared at the Cauliflower Alley Club reunion in Las Vegas in February 2001.

Ross Hart has long been candid about the scripted nature of professional wrestling and approved of the Calgarian civic committee's decision to exclude it from its combative sports bylaw in 2006.

In 2008 Ross Hart encouraged the city of Calgary to renovate but preserve his childhood home in its original form, this was eventually done between 2010 and 2012.