In the tag Team division... Team Droopy's Dungeon selects.....
Manager "The Mouth of the South"
Jimmy Hart had been using the name
Hart Foundation to describe the stable of wrestlers that he managed before his arrival and did so early in his WWF stint. That usage was eclipsed, however, by the
tag team of Bret Hart and Jim Neidhart, managed by Jimmy Hart and originally a part of the larger
Hart Foundation stable.
The
Hart Foundation tag team began when
Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart, already managed by Jimmy Hart, joined up with
Bret "Hit Man" Hart (whose sister he had already married)
[3] to form a
heel tag team. The name
Hart Foundation, already used by Jimmy Hart, derived from the fact that both wrestlers and manager had
Hart in their family names.
[1]
According to Bret Hart, the tag team originated after Bret turned down the "Cowboy" Bret Hart
gimmick he was given, claiming that he didn't really take a liking to it.
[4] He then suggested to WWF management that he would much prefer to be tag-teamed with Jim Neidhart. Management first laughed at the idea, claiming that Bret didn't have the heel look that was appropriate, but months later just as Bret was about to quit, he was given what he wanted: he was allowed to turn heel, and was partnered up with Neidhart and Jimmy to form the Hart Foundation.
[1]
The Hart Foundation is regarded as one of the best tag teams during wrestling's 1980s heyday.
[5] What set the Harts apart from their contemporaries was their respective wrestling styles - Neidhart was more of a brawler/power wrestler,
[3] whereas Bret on the other hand was a more agile, sound and polished technician who used ring psychology to his advantage.
[6] This characteristic and uniqueness in the Hart Foundation was at that time rare yet successful, leading to
two reigns as
WWF Tag Team Champions.
[7]
The Hart Foundation were involved in perhaps some of wrestling's greatest tag-team matches of all time, and they were constantly involved in feuds with various other teams including the
British Bulldogs, the
Killer Bees,
The Rockers, and the
Rougeau Brothers.