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Surviving.The.Dungeon.The.Legacy.Of.Stu.Hart



Blake Norton's "Surviving The Dungeon: The Legacy Of Stu Hart," is the story of a wrestler from Western Canada who would became one of the most legendary trainers in the history of the sport. Stu inducted countless superstar wrestlers into the mat game, including his sons Bret and Owen Hart, Chris Benoit and Chris Jericho.

Blake first met the family in 1999 when, as editor of World Of Wrestling Magazine, he went to Calgary to write a story about the famous training facility. As fate would have it, changes in management led to Blake parting ways with the magazine a couple of weeks into his stay. Instead of coming back home to the States or Ireland, Blake and his wife Natina accepted the Harts' invitation to stay in Calgary, where he spent ten months learning the art of professional wrestling from Stu and his sons Bruce and Ross. Blake soon became the company's Press Agent, securing major news stories in Pro Wrestling Illustrated and WOW, and gained booking experience as Bruce Hart's assistant. 

Upon returning to the world of journalism as Editor In Chief of the Imagine Gaming Network's new wrestling channel in 2000, Blake continued to promote the Harts and Stampede Wrestling. In October of that year, he returned to Calgary to film a feature for the IGN Wrestling website. While there, he shot as much extra footage as he could, including interviews with Stu, his wife Helen, son Bruce and daughter Georgia, grandson Harry Smith, interviews with several of the Harts' students, and matches at their Stampede Wrestling shows. This footage became the basis for this documentary.

Shortly after the documentary was filmed, Stu and Helen passed away, and The Dungeon closed up for good after fifty years of history-making service to professional wrestling. Fans around the world now have the opportunity for the first time to get a personal view of Stu Hart - his family, his legacy and his final days, in this very personal documentary.