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Diana Joyce Hart-Smith
BornDiana Joyce Hart
(1963-10-08)8 October 1963
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
OccupationWriter
LanguageEnglish
NationalityCanadian
American
Period2001–
GenreAutobioraphical, Romance novel
SubjectPro wrestling
Notable worksUnder the Mat
Spouse
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(m. 1984; div. 2000)​
Children2

Diana Joyce Hart-Smith (born October 8, 1963)[1] is a writer and the youngest daughter of Canadian wrestling promoter Stu Hart and was the second to last child born to Stu and his wife Helen.[2]

She was also the 1997 Mrs. Calgary Stampede.[3]

Early life

Hart is of Greek descent through her maternal grandparents[4][5] and Irish through her maternal grandfather.[6][7] Her father was mainly of Scots-Irish descent but also had Scottish and English ancestry.[8][9]

Hart is a dual citizen of Canada and the United States thanks to her mother Helen, who was born in New York.[10][11]

Stampede Wrestling

One of Hart's first wrestling appearances was in her father's promotion, Stampede Wrestling, in August 1989, during a heated rivalry between her husband Davey Boy Smith and his storyline brother Johnny Smith, in which her brother Owen Hart also got involved after Johnny's disrespect towards the Hart family.[12]

She was also involved in the 1999 incarnation of Stampede Wrestling. In a storyline where she refused to put the belt around the waist of a wrestler who had insulted her family, she was then attacked but her son Harry intervened and chased the attackers of.[13]

World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment (1992–present)

Hart was in attendance at SummerSlam in August 1992 where her husband won the WWF Intercontinental Championship from her brother, Bret Hart, in the night's main event at Wembley Stadium.[14] At the end of the match, Hart embraced both her brother and her husband to signify the family's unification.[15] Two years later at SummerSlam, she sat at ringside beside her husband, who had just returned to the WWF, to watch her brothers Bret and Owen wrestle each other inside a steel cage for the WWF Championship. A year later, she accompanied her husband to the ring for his WWF Championship match against Bret at In Your House: Season's Beatings, which Davey lost.[citation needed]

In April 1996, the WWF began a storyline where Hart claimed that she was sexually assaulted by Shawn Michaels backstage at In Your House: Good Friends, Better Enemies in an attempt to play mind games with Michaels as her husband prepared to challenge him for the WWF Championship at In Your House: Beware of Dog.[16] The angle culminated with an in-ring promo on an episode Monday Night Raw where Hart slapped Michaels, leading to a brawl between Michaels and Bulldog. When their match at In Your House led to a draw, a rematch was signed for King of the Ring 1996, which the Bulldog ultimately lost.[17] After that, the storyline was dropped.[citation needed]

In July 1997, Diana accompanied The Hart Foundation in their match at In Your House: Canadian Stampede, who defeated Stone Cold Steve Austin, Ken Shamrock, Goldust, and The Legion of Doom in the main event. Two months later, she was at ringside for the WWF One Night Only British pay-per-view, where her husband lost the WWF European Championship to Shawn Michaels in the main event. Her last appearance on WWE television was in May 2002, when she was interviewed for a WWE Confidential piece on the death of her husband, who had recently passed away.

At WrestleMania XXVI, Hart returned as a lumberjack for the No Holds Barred Match between Bret Hart and Mr. McMahon. McMahon had paid the Hart Family to screw Bret in their match. However, the tables were turned and the Hart Family sided with Bret and helped him win the match.[18]

She also appeared at her father Stu's Hall of Fame induction together with her sibling.[19]

Books

Autobiography

Main article: Under the Mat: Inside Wrestling's Greatest Family

After the death of her younger brother, Owen Hart, in a wrestling accident, Hart became very outspoken about the wrestling industry and wrote a controversial book entitled Under the Mat: Inside Wrestling's Greatest Family, which discussed alleged secrets of the Hart family. Owen's widow, Martha, intended to sue Hart over the book, which caused the book to be removed from publication.[20] It was later claimed by Hart that the stories that were printed in the book were completely twisted and changed from how she had written them originally, and she was deeply hurt by the controversy that it caused her family because of it. Her brother Bret has questioned her claim that she wasn't aware of the books content before publication.[21] Hart has disowned the book.[22]

Cauliflower Hearts trilogy

Hart has stated that she is intending to write a trilogy of romance novels. The first book entitled "Cauliflower Hearts: A Romantic Wrestler", which was released in 2014.[23] Hart received a silver medal award by the Readers Favorite in the category Sports Fiction for the book.[24][25]

Personal life

Hart met Davey Boy Smith at the age of 17 when Davey, 18, was training under her father in 1981. They married on October 7, 1984, a day before her 21st birthday. The couple had two children together, Harry (born on August 2, 1985) and Georgia (born September 26, 1987). They remained married until 2000, when the couple filed for divorced, and her son Harry followed his father and mother into professional wrestling. At the time of Smith's their split in 2000 they were not yet formally divorced, even though they both had began new relationships with other people.[26]

Hart has in her autobiography expressed interest in family research.[27]

References

  1. ^ Hart, Diana; McLellan, Kirstie (2001). Under the Mat: Inside Wrestling's Greatest Family. Fenn. p. 22 pp. ISBN 1-55168-256-7.
  2. ^ "A ROMANTIC SPIN: Cauliflower Heart series telling the tale of a fictional wrestling clan should sidestep more hurt feelings, feuds and lawsuits". PressReader.com.
  3. ^ [1] Diana Hart Smith - The effects of Bullying - My Life My Power World
  4. ^ Hart, Bret (2007). Hitman: My real life in the cartoon world of wrestling. Ebury Press. p. 8 pp. ISBN 9780091932862.
  5. ^ Letawsky, Craig (2002-05-07). "Ask 411 - 5.07.02". 411wrestling.com.
  6. ^ Hart, Diana; McLellan, Kirstie (2001). Under the Mat: Inside Wrestling's Greatest Family. Fenn. p. 16 pp. ISBN 1-55168-256-7.
  7. ^ Heath McCoy (2007). Pain and Passion: The History of Stampede Wrestling. ECWPress. p. 30 pp. ISBN 978-1-55022-787-1.
  8. ^ Slamthology: Collected Wrestling Writings 1991-2004. jnlister. 2005. p. 252 pp. ISBN 1-4116-5329-7.
  9. ^ Heath McCoy (2007). Pain and Passion: The History of Stampede Wrestling. ECWPress. p. 16 pp. ISBN 978-1-55022-787-1.
  10. ^ Martha Hart; Eric Francis (2004). Broken Harts: The Life and Death of Owen Hart. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 84 pp. ISBN 978-1-59077-036-8.
  11. ^ name="SLAM!""An open letter to Shawn Michaels". http: canoe. May 17, 1997.
  12. ^ "Owen Hart vs. Johnny Smith (August 18, 1989)". youtube. November 12, 2007.
  13. ^ "3-Way Match Plus Diana Hart Smith attacked and Harry Smith makes save". youtube. November 30, 2011.
  14. ^ "Review: WWF/WWE Summerslam 1992 DVD". wrestlingdvdnetwork.com. Retrieved 2010. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  15. ^ "Random Network Reviews: SummerSlam 1992". 411mania.com. Retrieved 2015. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  16. ^ "Dark Pegasus Video Review: In Your House VIII & VIII 1/2 – Beware of Dog". 411mania.com. Retrieved 2007. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  17. ^ "WWE Results: King of the Ring 1996". thedirtydeeds.co.uk. Retrieved 2015. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  18. ^ "Bret Hart def. Mr. McMahon in a No Holds Barred Match". WWE. March 28, 2010. Retrieved December 23, 2012.
  19. ^ [2] Bret Hart and the Hart family speak on behalf of Stu Hart
  20. ^ name="The Vancouver Sun""Diana Hart, youngest daughter of Calgary's iconic wrestling clan, finds romance in the ring with Cauliflower Heart trilogy". calgaryherald.com. Retrieved December 19, 2015.
  21. ^ Hart, Bret (2007). Hitman: My real life in the cartoon world of wrestling. Ebury Press. p. 533 pp. ISBN 9780091932862.
  22. ^ name="The Vancouver Sun""Diana Hart, youngest daughter of Calgary's iconic wrestling clan, finds romance in the ring with Cauliflower Heart trilogy". vancouversun. Retrieved December 21, 2015.
  23. ^ name="The Vancouver Sun""Diana Hart, youngest daughter of Calgary's iconic wrestling clan, finds romance in the ring with Cauliflower Heart trilogy". calgaryherald.com. Retrieved December 19, 2015.
  24. ^ [3] Diana Hart
  25. ^ [4] Cauliflower Heart
  26. ^ Tributes II: Remembering More of the World's Greatest Professional Wrestlers. Sports Publishing LLC. 2004. p. 49 pp. ISBN 1-58261-817-8.
  27. ^ Hart, Diana; McLellan, Kirstie (2001). Under the Mat: Inside Wrestling's Greatest Family. Fenn. p. 15 pp. ISBN 1-55168-256-7.

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