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 | | Stu Hart, patriarch of Canada's famous wrestling family and the founder of Stampede Wrestling, died Thursday, October 16, 2003 at age 88. |
 | | Born on May 3, 1915, in Calgary, Alberta, Hart was raised in a foster home and was taken into a band of shooters, a group of pros who experimented their moves on him. |
 | | Hart sold his Calgary-based Stampede Wrestling promotion to Vince McMahon’s World Wrestling Federation in 1984 after a 5-year business partnership, and Stampede was absorbed by the WWF. |
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