[CaptainCrunch]

The one thing that people tend to forget with Stampede Wrestling is that the stars that they bought over from Europe and the states and Western Canada were pretty much all bankable established wrestlers or Stars who developed in the independants.

The talent pool isn't that deep anymore, most of the Idnependants aren't really there with the big ones being developmental territories for either TNA or WWE.

If you were going to start up Stampede Wrestling then your going to start it up with the raw $20.00 a night wrestlers that would be lucky to be able to climb through the ring ropes.

Maybe if you linked up with Lance Storms school you could create a raw development territory.

But if Bruce Hart is involved it instantly becomes a disaster. While he hypes himself as the brains behind Stampede Wrestling he was the mastermind of the gore era where every night was a blood bath. He did create the exceptional Bad News Allen/Stomper Gouldie feud, and while we look back on it fondly that feud led to the death of Stampede Wrestling and the exit of Ed Whalen.

Bruce Hart also was the mastermind of the are you kidding era where it would take 15 villians to beat Bruce Hart and he was always carrying a belt.

Plus the guy slowly went insane.

Bret Hart wouldn't have anything to do with it if it was run by Bruce. You could invite Chris Jericho in except outside of Bret he has disdain for Keith and Bruce. Lance Storm is the same.

I loved Stampede Wrestling growing up it was athletic and edgy and innovative, but the later revivals under Bruce Hart were terrible things to see.

I would prefer that at some point Vince MacMahon who owns the Stampede Library would put out a DVD set.

Oh and I met Bad News Allen at a Canadian Tire once, and while the man was genuinely intimidating and dressed like a 70's pimp, but he was nice to a young Captain and graciously signed my autograph before telling me to get lost.