Stu had not intention of expanding. He promoted wrestling out of his damn house, promoted shows in his own city, toured the few bordering states and the provinces next to him and that was it. He had a stranglehold on wrestling airing unopposed for decades until McMahon showed up and bought out him and the Tunney's in Toronto. Wrestlers came to him, not the other way around. Stampede was more like a training ground or a loop than anything else and besides, the climate is absolute shit and the pay is in Canadian pesos. The money was to be made in the States. As much as Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and North Platte, Nebraska have riveting audiences for wrestling shows, getting to those shows with Stu sounded like a fucking nightmare. A ring truck, and a shitty old van with bald tires, no radio, no heat and packed to the nines with huge wrestlers going from town to town and the only thing keeping you warm in white out -40 blizzard conditions was Andre the Giants beer farts.
