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Bad blood had been brewing for months between the two professional wrestlers. They were once best friends. The Assassin, born Angel Acevedo, had even been best man at Allen’s wedding. But the friendship soured while the two were still working for Calgary’s Stampede Wrestling. This hostility came to a head after the wrestlers’ wives got into a dust-up. A few days later, the four would meet early in the morning in the Denny’s lot.
the piece uses original art and old Stampede Wrestling posters to map out this oddball corner of Calgary’s history. I The wild history of Stampede Wrestling goes back to 1951 when it began life as Big Time Wrestling. It was founded by wrestler Stu Hart, patriarch of the Hart dynasty that also included superstar sons Bret Hart and the late Owen Hart. For professional wrestling fans in the know, Stampede Wrestling was a pivotal organization in grooming future wrestling greats, including Superstar Billy Graham, The Dynamite Kid, The Honky Tonk Man, Davey Boy Smith and the aforementioned Harts.
McCoy is the author of 2005’s Pain and Passion: The History of Stampede Wrestling, an exhaustive book that he began researching back in 2003 while still an arts journalist at the Calgary Herald. So there weren’t many aspects of the story he didn’t already know. But he credits both Ross Hart, one of 12 siblings from the famous family, and Michelle Billington, ex-wife of the late Dynamite Kid, for pointing out some of the more obscure spots in the history of Stampede Wrestling.
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