[6.0] "At one time that I recall, the entire city of Calgary was ablaze with an upcoming Davey Boy Smith and Bret Hart against Hubert Gallant and Leo Burke, known as the French Connection in the Calgary Corral. This was some of the genius in the booking of Stampede. The Harts knew how to make it a local thing that people just kind of cared about. Because it was Bret, the Crown Jewel of the Hart kids at the time, and Davey Boy was a local product in our minds in that he had come up as a skinny kid from the UK. Burke and Gallant really built the match in the weeks prior, and we used to stand in the playground (I was around 9) and recite Daveys Boys "Tonight, Ed Whalen, The French Connection are going down. " promo. Hubert and Leo only spoke French on the mic at the time, as a heel tactic. It was little things, but I would say that Gallant was always considered a rough customer in the ring with good skill level. That matchup could have sold a 30000 seat arena. It was just that hot locally, prior to the advent of the internet and cable tv."