Ross Lindsay Hart[2] (born January 3, 1960)[8] is a Canadian-American retired professional wrestler, promoter,[9] trainer, booker, TV producer, coach and actor.
[16][17] Hart grew up in a household with 11 siblings, Smith, Bruce, Keith, Wayne, Dean, Ellie, Georgia, Bret, Alison, Diana and Owen.
[18] Hart's middle name was given to him in honor of his father's longtime friend Luther Lindsay[2] and he was the godson of wrestler and promoter Jack Pfefer.
[21] In the 80s Hart wrestled for the original Stampede Wrestling having matches with wrestlers such as Drago Zhivago,[22] Cuban Assassin, Gerry Morrow, Biff Wellington, Jude Rosenbloom, Chris Benoit, Goldie Rogers, Steve Blackman, Steve DiSalvo, Vokhan Singh, Great Gama, Mike Hammer, Beef Wellington, Mr. Hito, Vladimir Krupoff, Adolph Barbee, George Skaaland and brother in-law BJ Annis.
[23] 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.
He wrestled in victorious singles matches with Red Bronco, Johnny Angel, Duke Lynch, Count Von Zuppi, Drew McDonald.
[33][34][35] Ross usually handled promotion in the smaller Alberta towns such as Hanna, Didsbury and Cochrane while Bruce took care of Ogden Legion.
[41][42] Ross helped design his niece Natalya's ring costume,[43] he criticized how revealing the original version was and opted to change it.
On July 4, 1989 Hart was involved in an automobile accident near Jasper, Alberta together with Davey Boy Smith, Chris Benoit, Karl Moffat and Tatsumi Kitahara.
[62] 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.
Ross is the Hart family's historian and has an encyclopedic knowledge of the wrestling business according to his brother Bret and journalists Dave Meltzer.