![]() He was a really fast runner for his size. You look at Jim Neidhart with that big belly on him, but he was one of the fastest sprinters. " was a very legitimate, world class athlete. While Hart described his tag team with Neidhart as a 50/50, 'The Hitman' does not feel that 'The Anvil' gets his just due as a world class athlete. I think John Belushi would have tapped out, and waved the white flag, and put 'surrender' up on his door." "If you looked up 'party animal' in the dictionary, there would be a picture of Jim Neidhart's face. " was so much fun every night and every day," Hart remembered. Apparently, legendary comedian and party animal John Belushi would not be able to keep up with 'The Anvil'. He always had my back, he was always on-side with me with everything I was doing."Īccording to Hart, Neidhart was the original party animal. I would say to him, 'this is what we're doing,' and it was never a question. He was always of the understanding that I knew what I was doing, that he would never argue with me about anything. There gets to be jealousies and things like that, but for me and Jim 'The Anvil', not only did we never have an argument, we never had any coarse words with each other, or a disagreement about anything wrestling related. A lot of the times one brother or one partner feels like the other partner isn't carrying their end of the load that kind of stuff. There's a lot of that because you're chained together at the ankle. "They all hate each other, even brothers, real brothers hate each other a lot of the time. "Tag team partners all end up hating each other," Hart professed. Then, we got kicked out of the store."Īccording to Hart, every tag team eventually hates each other however, he and Neidhart never fought and never even argued. And this guy looks at me and Jim, and he goes, 'you just bought yourself a suitcase!' And I remember, Jim goes, 'you told me to do that!' He goes, 'I told you to stand on it, not stomp on it!' 'I thought he said stomp on it!' Anyway, we got into this big argument and it was so funny. I remember he handed me the drink, and I'm thinking, 'like, I just came in here to buy a suitcase.' So Jim, with two stomps, almost effortlessly stomps this suitcase and crushes it. I just remember, he pulled the luggage out, and he takes his out of his pocket, and he puts it on the suitcase, and he goes, 'stand on that!' So Jim goes, 'you want me to stand on that?' And he hands me the drink. ![]() "Jim goes, 'oh yeah, that luggage is a piece of s-it.' He goes, 'sir?' and he goes kind of in this thing. I remember Jim's walking around with me, and I'm like, 'what do you think about this one?' And he goes, 'that's a piece of sh-t!' And I'm like, 'what about this one?' And he said, 'that's a piece of shi-!' Just mad, grumpy, he's got his coffee and he's sipping it." Hart continued, "and this guy comes over: 'dear sir, this is one of the finest pieces of luggage.' And he goes on this long rant, a big sell, on the luggage. He was talking about his luggage to someone else. We walk into this luggage store next door and there is this very distinguished looking gentleman with a moustache and all that. He's got the sweatpants on and I've got the belts on me. The big man of the tag team crushed the luggage with ease. So I see this luggage store and I said, 'I'll just buy a suitcase in here!' So Jim's getting annoyed," Hart recalled.Īs the story goes, the shopkeep challenged Neidhart to stand on a piece of luggage to show off it's durability. One of my luggage pieces had broke, so I was going for about three weeks with a suitcase that I was taping and stuff, and it was getting to be a pain in the butt. We're actually going to the gym and I can't believe it, so we pull into this 7-11 – there was a little luggage store. I was feeling bad, so on the way to the gym, I said, 'I need a coffee.' Like, I've actually talked myself into this workout now. "And I remember I actually didn't want to go to the gym. And somehow, Jim was like, 'yeah, okay, we'll go to the gym really hungover.' And so we landed, I think it was in Dayton, Ohio, and I kept saying, like, 'we have to go to the gym,' but I'm actually kind of hoping Jim would say, 'I'm not going to the gym' and then I would say, 'I'm totally in agreement.' But I was like, 'we've got to get in there for a quick workout.' I was kind of ribbing him. And so, sometimes when I didn't really want to go to the gym, like, I wanted to crash out in my room all afternoon with a hangover and skip the gym. "We had been out the night before and we had been pretty hungover. One funny story saw The Hart Foundation getting kicked out of a luggage store while procrastinating away their planned workout.
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