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The Hart Dungeon or Hart Family Dungeon, otherwise known simply as The Dungeon, was the gym and wrestling school located in the basement of the Hart mansion. The school was created by Stu Hart, patriarch of the Hart wrestling family and is known for having produced some of the greatest and most successful professional wrestlers of all time. [1] [2]
Hart trained the vast majority of his trainees in the basement of the Hart mansion, known as The Dungeon. Hart used the location from the time that he bought it in October 1951 until the late 1990s. All eight of his sons and many others such as Junkyard Dog, Jushin Liger, [xxix] Superstar Billy Graham and The British Bulldog were educated there ...
May 4, 2015 · The wood-paneled basement of Stu Hart’s house, also known as the Hart Dungeon, has become the most infamous training ground in pro wrestling history.
- Nathan Birch
- Jim Neidhart. Jim 'The Anvil" Neidhart was actually the last wrestler that Stu Hart trained in the Dungeon from start to finish. Neidhart was a former high school track and field star who also spent a brief amount of time in the NFL.
- Jake "The Snake" Roberts. Jake "The Snake" Roberts actually began his career in the early 1970's as a referee. It wasn't until the second-generation wrestler made the trip up north to Calgary that his career started to take off.
- Ken Shamrock. When Ken Shamrock joined the WWE in 1997, he was already considered a legend in the world of MMA having competed at UFC 1. A fact that is not well known is that prior to his MMA career, Shamrock actually had a brief but successful pro wrestling career.
- Nikolai Volkoff. Nikolai Volkoff had the honor of being one of the very first wrestlers to be trained by Stu Hart in the Dungeon. As a teenager, he immigrated to Canada from Croatia in 1967.
- Vern May
- Bret Hart. The five time WWE World champion is the only Hart-born wrestler to make the list as his introduction to the sport is somewhat different from his brothers Smith, Bruce, and Keith who proceeded him, and Ross, Wayne and Owen that followed.
- Billy Graham. Wayne Coleman was trying to find his defining path in life when the Arizona native found himself in Calgary and introduced to Stu Hart.
- Greg Valentine. It may come as a surprise to many that Greg Valentine -- son of one of the legends of the Golden Era of wrestling, Johnny Valentine -- was not trained in the sport by his father.
- Fritz Von Erich. The name Von Erich is a familiar one to wrestling fans, though it is most associated with World Class Championship Wrestling and the state of Texas.
Step inside Stu Hart's Dungeon and learn why it was the mat's most notorious training ground from former students like Tyson Kidd and Natalya.
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Step inside Stu Hart's Dungeon and learn why it was the mat's most notorious training ground from former students like Tyson Kidd and Natalya.
