My condolences to Jim’s family & friends. Very sorry to hear of the passing of Jim Neidhart. RIP to Jim Neidhart! □ Sending all my love to and at this sad time. My thoughts are with and the rest of the Hart family. The #HartFoundation were the greatest of all time. Shocked and saddened to hear about the passing of Jim Neidhart. I love the entire Hart family and I'm thinking of them all right now. Guess God Needed An “Anvil” Angel RIP Jim□□ Saddened To Hear Jim Neidhart Has Passed. Jim Neidhart headlined one of the two events I promoted early in my career, and gave the world a wonderful human being in his daughter My deepest condolences to her, and the entire Hart family. So sad that everyone in this picture but Bret has now gone. Love and sympathies to and the rest of the Neidhart/Hart family. Rest In Peace Brother until we meet again !!! JSmdpZ9YZ1ĭevastating news Jim Neidhart my friend has passed away!! I can hardly believe it. My Good Friend Jim Neidhart, A World Class Athlete And A Man Among Men. My sympathies go out Nattie and the family. So sorry to hear about my buddy Jim Neidhart passing. My heart hurts for his daughters, wife & is only one #Anvil /pFvfDHtN8S GOD BLESS FAMILY I NEVER FORGET YOU BUBBA. WE TRAVEL TOGETHER I LOVE HIM FOREVER LIKE A BROTHER. ONE OF MY OLDEST FRIENDS IN THE BUSINESS JIM NEIDHART. Members of the pro wrestling community took to social media to share their condolences: Neidhart is the latest in a string of big wrestling names who have died in 2018, including Bruno Sammartino, Vader, Brian Christopher and Nikolai Volkoff. Neidhart wrestled briefly for other wrestling promotions and had brushes with the law and spent time in drug rehabilitation later in life.īut he found a second act as comic relief on “Total Divas” and was filmed going shopping with his daughter and teaching wrestlers how to golf. “He was more of the power behind the team but at times he did some incredibly gifted things in the ring. “He was very gifted athletically, even though Bret got more of the credit,” Ross Hart said. Hart is the only wrestler from that incarnation still alive. Neidhart foundered for most of the 1990s before aligning again with Hart, Owen Hart, Brian Pillman and the British Bulldog to form a new Hart Foundation and become the top faction in WWE. Bret Hart was the wrestling technician of the team while Neidhart brought the raw force and power that made them fan favorites later in their run.Īs a singles wrestler, Hart would become one of the biggest stars in WWE history and made the promotion’s Hall of Fame. They won the tag titles again in 1990 but split up not long after their second reign ended. The Hart Foundation started as bad guys in WWE and won their first tag team championship in 1987 with the help of a crooked referee. Neidhart was a shot put start in high school in California in the early 1970s and had brief tryouts for NFL teams before becoming a pro wrestler. Jimmy Hart said Neidhart seemed in good health when they last saw each other in April on WrestleMania weekend. It’s a struggle he’s been going through.” “I was think this was stemming from Alzheimer’s which he’d been battling for some time. “He got up (Monday) morning and went to lower the temperature on the air conditioner and he just collapsed and I think died pretty quickly,” Hart said. Ross Hart, his brother-in-law and a former pro wrestler, told The Associated Press that Neidhart suffered from Alzheimer’s disease and it was believed he suffered a grand mal seizure on Monday. Neidhart started his pro wrestling career in Stu Hart’s Stampede Wrestling promotion and eventually signed with the WWE in 1985. Stu Hart trained his sons, including Bret and former WWE star Owen Hart, as well as Neidhart in the 1970s. Neidhart married Hart’s sister, Ellie, and became part of the famed family wrestling dynasty in Canada. Neidhart and myself were kind of the evil twins.” “But the reason why was, Neidhart was such a great character back then. I couldn’t believe how it took off,” Jimmy Hart told The Associated Press. Neidhart, Bret “Hitman” Hart and manager Jimmy “The Mouth of the South” Hart made up the Hart Foundation stable in the 1980s and 1990s and the tag team won two WWE championships. Neidhart made appearances with his daughter in the WWE reality series, “Total Divas.” Neidhart’s daughter, known as Natalya, wrestles for the WWE and is a former women’s champion. The Pasco Sheriff’s Office said Neidhart fell at home, hit his head and “succumbed to his injury” on Monday in Wesley Chapel, Florida. Jim “The Anvil” Neidhart, who joined with brother-in-law Bret Hart to form one of the top tag teams in the 1980s with the WWE, has died. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu
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