Pro Wrestling Bears To Be Featured In New History Channel Series
Bears in pro wrestling to be part of new History Channel series
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May 21, 2025
A new series on The History channel is set to explore the controversial history of bears in professional wrestling.
A new trailer for 'Hazardous History With Henry Winkler' has revealed pro wrestling bears will be featured in the series, with Terrible Ted (a bear) being shown throwing his human opponent around the ring in the short video.
The new series is set to premiere on Sunday, June 15 and the press release for the show notes:
"Each 60-minute episode of this nostalgia-drenched series tells the stories of the things we did for fun, for money, or out of plain boredom that you can't do anymore. Pastimes, practices, and products that were once allowed, even encouraged, which you will never see again in modern America. There was a time, not long ago, when doctors would recommend smoking, and when we stored our food in toxic refrigerators, and unknowingly played with radioactive toys, flew down slides that ripped our skin off, and decorated our Christmas tree with ornaments made from asbestos. Fast-paced, informative, and a little bit scary, from perilous playgrounds to precarious products, it's a running cavalcade of the most exciting, reckless, unsupervised tales of Americana in our history."
Pro wrestling has a long history with bears, with wrestling bears reaching the height of their popularity during the 1960s and 1970s. One of the most famous wrestling bears was Terrible Ted, who appeared on numerous occasions for Stampede Wrestling and even briefly lived at Stu Hart's home in Calgary, where Bret Hart would play with Ted.
The practice of pro wrestling bears was pretty much extinct by the early 1990s but two bears infamously appeared as part of Big Josh's entrance at SuperBrawl I, urinating all the way down the ramp.
Vince McMahon also wanted The Rock to wrestle an actual bear in 2000 when WWE joined the New York Stock Exchange. The plan was ultimately scrapped.
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