"Playboy" Gary Hart, one of my favorite managers and one of the all-time greatest bookers and evaluators of professional wrestling talent, passed away this weekend at the age of 66.Throughout his career, Gary managed some of the biggest names -- Dusty Rhodes, Abdullah the Butcher, Bruiser Brody, The Great Kabuki, Terry Funk, and The Great Muta, just to name a few -- and booked some of the classic feuds, angles, and territories, most notably ushering in and guiding the boom periods in Florida during the mid 1970s (when he turned Dusty Rhodes babyface) and World Class Championship Wrestling (when he turned the Fabulous Freebirds heel thereby igniting their feud with The Von Erichs) during the early/mid 1980s.
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