Bret Hart talks Dungeon Wrestling, recreating the ‘Stampede Wrestling live experience’
Bret Hart spoke about Dungeon Wrestling during a recent interview with The Takedown on SI.com.
Dungeon Wrestling is a promotion operated by Bret’s son, Dallas Hart. They often run shows out of the Victoria Pavilion in Calgary, a venue frequently used by Stu Hart’s Stampede Wrestling territory.
Hart told SI.com that he’s always encouraged his son to emulate what Stu Hart did with Stampede Wrestling.
Hart said:
“I’ve always encouraged Dallas and Dungeon Wrestling to try to emulate the Stampede Wrestling live experience as much as possible. It’s hard because you don’t have access to the talent you had back in those days. You get wrestlers coming in, and you don’t know how good they are until they get here. There are situations where the wrestlers don’t have the experience of working every day like those days.”
Bret said that some Dungeon Wrestling shows he feels were better than some WWE PLEs.
“I’ve seen some outstanding shows that, to a certain degree, I would say they were better than some of the WWE pay-per-views in how a wrestling show is put together,” Bret continued.
“It would be really nice to see a territorial-like wrestling company get back in business and have a TV show,” he said. “Those things might be in the future for Dungeon Wrestling, but at the same time, you don’t have Stu Hart, you don’t have Ed Whalen, you don’t have that selection of talent like you used to have where you could bring in the world champion, or a guy from Puerto Rico, or a guy from Japan.”
Dungeon Wrestling’s next show is set for Friday, April 3 from the Victoria Pavilion. The main title in the promotion is the Stu Hart Heritage Championship, currently held by Raj Dhesi, the former Jinder Mahal in WWE. The Dungeon Wrestling Tag Team titles are currently held by the Billington Bulldogs, nephews of the Dynamite Kid, Mark Billington and Thomas Billington.
The full interview with Bret Hart from The Takedown on SI.com is available here.
Ian Carey is a writer from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, whose work has been featured in NOW Magazine, The Huffington Post, and more. A lifelong wrestling aficionado born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, he has covered the industry for a decade and a half. He joined the f4wonline.com team in 2019.