Stampede Wrestling

Stampede Wrestling

Acronym	Stampede Wrestling
Founded	September 11, 1948 (first run) October 28, 1985 (second run) April 2, 1999 (third run)
Defunct	November 5, 1984 (first run) December 18, 1989 (second run) April 26, 2008 (third run)
Headquarters	Calgary, Alberta
Founder(s)	Stu Hart Al Oeming
Owner(s)	Al Oeming (1948–1959) Stu Hart (1948–1984) Vince McMahon (1984–1985) Bruce Hart (1985–1989) Bruce and Ross Hart (1999–2007) Bill Bell (2007–2008) Smith Hart
Parent	National Wrestling Alliance (until 1982) World Wrestling Federation (1984–1985) WWE Legacy Department (WWE)
Formerly	Klondike Wrestling Big Time Wrestling Wildcat Wrestling

Stampede Wrestling was a Canadian professional wrestling promotion based in Calgary, Alberta. For nearly 50 years, it was one of the main promotions in western Canada and the Canadian Prairies. Originally established by Stu Hart in 1948, the promotion competed with other promotions such as NWA All-Star Wrestling and Pacific Northwest Wrestling and regularly ran events in Calgary's Victoria Pavilion, Ogden Auditorium and the Stampede Corral between 1948 until 1984 when bought out by promoter Vince McMahon, the company was briefly run by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) before being sold back to the Hart family the following year. Run by Bruce Hart until January 1990, he and Ross Hart reopened the promotion in 1999 and began running events in the Alberta area.

Along with its wrestling school known as "The Dungeon", many of the promotion's former alumni becoming some of the most popular stars in the World Wrestling Federation and other American promotions during the 1980s and 1990s, the promotion produced one of the earliest televised professional wrestling programs (today considered the forerunner of today's WWE) that remained one of Calgary's most popular sports programs eventually airing in over 50 countries.^[1]