10 Terrifying Wrestling Curses That Will Chill Your Blood
4. The Hart Family Curse
Stu Hart raised 12 children, all of whom became or married pro wrestlers.
Dean Hart died aged 36 of kidney disease and a heart attack after struggling through Bright's disease. Owen Hart died, at 34, when he fell from the rafters of Kemper Arena on May 23, 1999. The "safety" equipment used to facilitate the unnecessary stunt was not fit for purpose. Bret's glittering wrestling career was brought to and end as a result of a severe concussion in 2000, after which he endured a litany of serious health issues. Smith, a degenerate obsessed with ugly get-rich-quick schemes, any money made from which was news to the Maintenance Enforcement Program (MEP) of Alberta Justice, named his daughter Satanic Ecstasy.
Even proximity to the family yielded tragedy.
Diana Hart, before splitting from David 'British Bulldog' Smith in 2000, had to watch on helplessly as her husband's life fell into substance-afflicted disarray. Sisters Julie and Michelle Smadu married into the family and or its extended circle; Michelle as a consequence of that endured a life of psychological torture so harrowing that, at one point, she considered ending the lives of herself and her children to escape the horrors of a life shared with the sadistic Tom 'Dynamite Kid' Billington.
Here's that refrain again: there is no curse.
Simply, brutally, a large family were directly or indirectly associated with the pro wrestling industry in the late 20th century.