Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart Dead At 63

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Anvil, Owen, Pillman, Bulldog... most of the Hart Foundation is gone. Somehow Jimmy Hart and his megaphone are still kicking, though.
 

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Anvil, Owen, Pillman, Bulldog... most of the Hart Foundation is gone. Somehow Jimmy Hart and his megaphone are still kicking, though.

There's a member here with a portrait of Bret Hart that has been aging through the years, allowing Bret to live longer.
 

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Anvil, Owen, Pillman, Bulldog... most of the Hart Foundation is gone. Somehow Jimmy Hart and his megaphone are still kicking, though.

man i completely forgot that the british bull dog passed away. was so pissed when james hellwig passed away. may they all rest in peace.
 

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man i completely forgot that the british bull dog passed away. was so pissed when james hellwig passed away. may they all rest in peace.

Fuck Warrior, that dude was a massive piece of shit even by wrestling standards.
 

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Another one bites the dust. Dude lived just a couple of miles from me as well :(
 

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Makes we wonder if my Oma talked like this when her soap opera stars does too?
 

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Anvil, Owen, Pillman, Bulldog... most of the Hart Foundation is gone. Somehow Jimmy Hart and his megaphone are still kicking, though.

I was thinking about that earlier. Bret is the only surviving member of the Hart Foundation (aside from Jimmy Hart). I feel bad for Jim's family, and for Bret in particular. Jim was his brother-in-law. I loved watching the original Hart Foundation in the 80's and the attitude-era foundation with Pillman, Owen & Bulldog.

Bret's angle where he loved all the fans except the American ones was classic. The whole foundation was all-in on the gimmick.
 

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I remember when "The Anvil" was the new guy on the block at WWF. The Heart Foundation was truly a great organization. He will be missed.
 

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Fuck Warrior, that dude was a massive piece of shit even by wrestling standards.

You're right, but how smarky, jeez.

There are members here paying their respects. Members who don't post in the damn wrestling thread.

Learn some self restraint.
 

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Nobody posts promos? What the fuck?


Edit: Side note - Mean Gene Okerlund is the fucking man.

Edit 2: Mean Gene's wife is named "Jeanne".
 
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Fuck Warrior, that dude was a massive piece of shit even by wrestling standards.

I don't follow wrestling, but as far as speeches given by guys who died 24 hours later, I reckon his is at the top:

"No WWE talent becomes a legend on their own. Every man's heart one day beats its final beat. His lungs breathe their final breath. And if what that man did in his life makes the blood pulse through the body of others and makes them believe deeper in something larger than life then his essence, his spirit, will be immortalized. By the story tellers, by the loyalty, by the memory of those who honor him and make the running the man did live forever. You, you, you, you, you, you are the legend makers of Ultimate Warrior. In the back I see many potential legends. Some of them with warrior spirits. And you will do the same for them. You will decide if they lived with the passion and intensity. So much so that you will tell your stories and you will make them legends, as well. I am Ultimate Warrior. You are the Ultimate Warrior fans. And the spirit of the Ultimate Warrior will run forever!"
 

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Fuck Warrior, that dude was a massive piece of shit even by wrestling standards.

I think that shit personalities can happen to a lot of people given enough time and exposure to other shitty people.

I definitely wouldn’t want to let anyone around UW anymore though. He just reeks of mental poverty.
 

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Bret's angle where he loved all the fans except the American ones was classic. The whole foundation was all-in on the gimmick.

Good times. As a Canadian, I was specially into this angle. :lolz: There were a lot of stacked factions at the time (Hart Foundation, DX, Nation).

The original Hart Foundation theme is awesome. I prefer it over the version Brett used later on. The guitars on the original version sound thicker and dirtier. Perfect for this tag team.

RIP anvil.
 

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You actively watch Impact Wrestling, yet he's the piece of shit?

I haven't watched Impact in a long, long time.

And yes, he was a piece of shit:
Warrior's most controversial comments came in the mid-2000s, when he made another career change, this time rebranding himself as a conservative commentator. At a Young Republicans-hosted event at UConn in 2005, he said (to gasps from the crowd) that "queering don't make the world work."

[video of the speech taken down, but it was in response to a student asking him why gays don't deserve the same rights as straight people]

From Warrior's own website, about Hurricane Katrina
If we could be shown what general conditions they lived in before the hurricane, we would see that had little respect for what they did have. We would see just how unorganized, unclean and dysfunctionally they lived. They never gave a care for order, cleanliness or function before, but now that they can get someone's attention who will possibly take over the responsibility of their life for them, they go on these tirades about how their life has been ruined. Their lives were already in ruin — self ruin. Ruined by the bad choices they made over and over.

[...]

And they are fat. Have you ever seen so many fat people? Poverty? Poverty of what? Having enough to buy so much food to eat that you become obese — this is poverty? Only one TV? This is poverty? A house with a roof over your head? This is Poverty? Indoor plumbing? Electric appliances? Refrigeration? Phones? Cell phones? Computers? Designer clothes made by rap stars? $200 Nikes? Free medicine and medical care if you really need it? Is having all this poverty? What the hell, then, do we call the scenes they shoot out of Africa that they use to lay guilt trips down on all of us?

He then came very close to declaring that the hurricane was a good thing:

They claim New Orleans was (is) a great city. Maybe once it was, I don't know. Too, maybe it's just always been corrupt as it has been for years and years. Truth is, today, it was nothing more than a pornographic cesspool of decadence and depravity. You know, an East Coast version of that Las Vegas take on vacation time — "what you do there stays there." You go there, drink and drink and drink and behave like a pervert, reprobate and degenerate, take a huge dose of antibiotics and a nice extra long shower before you hop on the plane back home, and, "Hey, who knows any better?" You go back to the church, PTA, and local council and "squarely" fit right back in. One thing is for sure, IF New Orleans ever was a great city, it certainly was not because it had leaders and citizenry like the leaders and citizenry it has today.

On Martin Luther King Jr Day:
Martin Luther King can have his own self-titled birthday recognized as a National Holiday, but not our country's First President? Should I go on? Should I have to? Do I want to? Will I? You bet your ass I will.

Let's see if I understand this correctly. Or should I say, let's see if I can get to anywhere near a "correct understanding" of this piece of nonsense by, first, understanding it sensically using political-incorrectness?

Martin marched a few times from Selma, AL to Montgomery, AL. It's only about 40 miles and he walked along paved roads with security escorts and modern comforts and conveniences. He wrote a few jailhouse letters, plagiarized a great many speeches, and played up his last name "King" as if he was ONE. He led his best rally amid the monuments of Washington, DC. He preached proper, righteous behavior while he at the same time committed adultery many publicly verifiable times — oh, and he had "a dream."

That same year, on a speaking engagement at DePaul University:

One of the premises that I put forward in my speech being that the fundamental difference between the ideological sides is "thinking vs feeling," the most enlivening emotional outbursts erupted when homosexuals were offended by my use of the word "queer." One guy without his husband and two physically-repulsive butch-dykes slurping on one another's tongues (really) on the front row had a real hard time cozying up to my principled heterosexual obstinacy. So, in an act of pure selfish pleasure the guy got himself physically thrown out by the masculine security guard, unmistakably loving every single masochistic, man-handled moment of it. And the dykes, well, they ran out screaming and yelling like speared wild boars that I was a homophobe for making my remarks. Rumor has it that they decided to exit more because I was not getting stimulated by watching their poorly performed two-nightcrawlers-in-heat act.

On Heath Ledger's death:
In the interest of full disclosure, I must tell you I have watched Brokeback Mountain no less than 45 times and I own the Limited Edition DVD, signed by Willie Nelson a short time after he wrote that queer cowboy song as a tribute to the courage of the producers and actors who broke such incredible creative ground when they made their agenda-less movie. Serious. Until I saw Bendover Brokeback, Braveheart was my favorite movie. But the love scenes of Brokeback sucked me right in and I had no choice but to give myself over to the passion of its wide open range, if you get my drift. Such courage this young man and his colleagues have. Reminds me of the courage of classic movie stars, where during the War they enlisted and flew bomber planes and fought on frontlines, then came back and picked up their lives and careers right where they left off, without anti-American sentiment, whining and complaining, or self-destructive self indulgence. I'm equally inspired.

[...]

By today's standard, though, I do have to agree that he was a great father. Perhaps even greater then the father of the year, Hulk Hogan. After all, Leather Hedger did what it took to kill himself. His kid is without a father, yes, but the negative influence is now removed and his own child has the chance for a full recovery.
 

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He thought Hogan was an asshole. That's good enough for me to like him.
 

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CRASH THE PLANE, HOAK HOAGAN

Remember when Neidhart wrestled Virgil while wearing KKK robes? :keke:
 
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Neidhart and The Thug. They used Bone Thugs N' Harmony as their entrance music too.

Of course it was probably just a work but still, jeez.

Not good for Neidhart's legacy, though few know about this match. Maybe that will change.
 
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