1. Smith Stewart Hart was an American-Canadian professional wrestler and a member of the Hart wrestling family.
41 Facts About Smith Hart
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Smith Hart is the father of two professional wrestlers, Mike and Matt Smith Hart.
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Smith Hart wrestled for the majority of his career in Canada but worked briefly in other countries and is best known for his time in Stampede Wrestling and for his appearances for WWE.
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Smith Hart was born in New York and was a dual citizen of the United States and Canada.
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Smith Hart was of Greek descent through his maternal grandmother and Irish through his maternal grandfather.
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Smith Hart's father was mainly of Scots-Irish descent but had Scottish and English ancestry.
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When he was less than a year old his mother, Helen Smith Hart, suffered an automobile accident while pregnant with his younger brother Bruce.
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Smith Hart wrestled in his father's Stampede Wrestling promotion and in Puerto Rico's World Wrestling Council, as well as trips to Japan, England, Germany and the Netherlands.
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Smith Hart helped out behind the scenes at Stampede Wrestling.
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In 1973 Smith Hart debuted for his father's promotion Stampede Wrestling in a tag team match with Bob Pringle against Joe Tomasso and Super Hawk in Regina.
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Smith Hart later went on that same year to working in matches with Frank Butcher.
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In 1974 Smith Hart began working for the Japanese promotion International Wrestling Enterprise, he first worked in a match against Katsuzo Oiyama in Sagamihara.
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Smith Hart was sent to Japan primarily to train since his father wanted him to get more experience and discipline.
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Smith Hart has claimed that his time in Japan caused the breakup with his then girlfriend and mother of his first child, Marla.
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From 1977 to 1980 Smith Hart worked and wrestled in collaboration with Stampede Wrestling and the National Wrestling Alliance in matches against Gordon Ivey, Jim Custer and Steve Novak among others.
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In late 70s Smith Hart traveled to Puerto Rico together with his younger brother Bret.
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Smith Hart met his wife Maria while working in Puerto Rico.
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Smith Hart tag teamed with brother in-law Jim Neidhart regularly against Carlos Peron, Jose Peron, Duke Myers and Texas Red Miller.
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Smith Hart continued to wrestle in Puerto Rico and in Montreal in the late 80s after Stampede Wrestling was shut down and sold to WWE.
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On June 24,2011, Smith Hart wrestled for the Great North Wrestling promotion in a match which he lost against The Spoiler.
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Smith Hart was there together with his step-son Mike who wrestled at the event.
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On March 28,2010, Smith Hart made an appearance at Wrestlemania 26 to help his brother Bret defeat Vince McMahon in a No Holds Barred Match.
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Smith Hart appeared on WWE television at his father Stu's Hall of Fame induction together with his sibling.
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On November 6,2011, Smith Hart brought back Stampede Wrestling in Barrie, Ontario.
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In February 2013 Smith Hart became an executive member of the Victory Commonwealth Wrestling board of directors along with "Soulman" Ricky Johnson, uncle of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.
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Smith Hart has since made many appearances for the company under both the VCW and Hogtown Pro Wrestling names.
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Smith Hart had told different versions to the two men, to Guerrero he had said that David had received training for the match but had told Jericho that David would not be wrestling, just involved in a storyline.
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Smith Hart was at one point booker for the Canadian-based Great North Wrestling company.
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Smith Hart opened a "Smith Hart Brothers Wrestling School" in Cambridge, Ontario, which has trained many wrestlers including the Highlanders.
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In 2011 Smith Hart appeared the Canadian show Dragon's Den, Season 6 Episode 4.
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Smith Hart had several children including sons Matthew and Chad, daughters Toby McIvor and Satania Smith Hart.
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Smith Hart had two step-sons named Michael Herweg and Steven Jupe.
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Smith Hart has six grandchildren, three granddaughters from his oldest, Tobi, named Amanda, Jessica and Isabella, and two grandsons named Lakken and Ashwin Stelzner from his son Michael, who has a stepdaughter named Havanna Stelzner.
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In 1978, Smith Hart was attending the Oktoberfest in Germany together with Tom Billington and his brother Bruce to represent Stampede Wrestling in an international wrestling tournament, when Smith Hart was called out he entered the ring with a Hitler mustache and performed a Nazi salute in an attempt to play a joke on the other wrestlers.
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Smith Hart had used the family mansion as a rent house to make money and was unwilling to give it up.
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Smith Hart is one of 96 known people on an Alberta Justice website who owe a combined $6.6 million in court-ordered Maintenance Enforcement Program payments to spouses and children.
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On January 21,2016, Smith Hart announced on his Twitter and Facebook profile that he had been diagnosed with both prostate and bone cancers.
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Smith Hart was in the progress of writing his autobiography.
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Two weeks later via his Facebook, his brother Bret Smith Hart revealed that he had prostate cancer.
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On June 5,2017, Smith Hart announced on his Facebook page that he had entered hospice care related to his cancer.
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On July 2,2017, it was announced that Smith Hart had died at the age of 68 of prostate and bone cancer.