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3. Stu Hart's Last Stand
The terms "old school" and "legitimate tough guy" are horrifically overused when discussing any wrestler born before 1970 so you'll be thrilled when I begin this story by saying that Stu Hart was old school and a legitimate tough guy.
He'd come up the hard way by having seven shades knocked out of him and succeeded by getting up every time. He wasn't the sort of person to back down from a fight, even when he was a pensioner and the man challenging him was legendary bodybuilder, Reg Park, a man so stacked in his day that he was Arnold Schwarzenegger's idol.
In Bret Hart's excellent book he says that at WrestleMania V the phone rang in Stu's hotel room. Dressed only in his long, striped nightshirt he answered it and was pleasantly surprised to hear the voice of his old friend, Reg Park. The conversation quickly turned sour with Reg telling Stu that he'd never had the balls to try him. Stu was apoplectic, all set to head down to the lobby where Reg apparently was and finish the matter once and for all.
Suddenly Stu sat down on the bed, a broken man. A shy smile spread over his granite-hard face.
"It was Owen," he said, "that little bastard got me!"