Jimmy Hart As A Face

[subject2]

Did anyone think this was a really bad role for him...he was such a weasely slimy manager and then then suddenly he starts managing the biggest face in WWE?

I think that's another reason Hogan from 93 until his heel turn in WCW didn't feel right...Jimmy Hart should not be a face or managing a guy like Hogan...it'd be like Bobby Heenan managing The Ultimate Warrior.

What did you all think of Jimmy as a face?

[jmule]

To this day I still can't get over him becoming hogans manager..just bizarre..

[Capt Lunatic]

My younger years all spent hating him with a passion...it was very hard to take him as a face.

He wasn't even the type of manager who fought guys like JJ Dillion or The Brain. He was a total chickenshit.

[Mozenrath]

He was a good enough hype guy for me to feel like it worked to an extent, though yeah, it's an odd part for him, given how natural a heel he was.

I wish WWE had him managing someone but I've always been a bit of a Hart mark.

[Deleted]

It was just weird. Jimmy became kind of irrelevant as Hogan's manager. Plus, seeing Hogan with the Mouth of the South trailing after him saying "come on baby, you got him baby, let's go Hulk baby" somehow detracted from Hulkamania.

[Deleted]

Even when I was younger and didn't completely get everything about wrestling (more than I had in years before, but still little) I knew this was very weird on another level and, in some respects, was a "beginning of the end" move.

I mean, in reality Jimmy had been Hogan's business manager for years (unknown to 99.99% of all fans at the time, I'd bet) so it makes sense on that level, but it just seemed so wrong. I actually didn't figure Hogan would be around much longer himself in '93, so when Hart hooked up with him I figured he would be gone soon too. And sure enough, that was indeed the case...

Of course, later that year, it took a few weeks to realize that Heenan getting kicked out was him literally leaving the company. (They had fill-ins for him on weeks after that; I didn't truly get that he was gone when DiBiase showed up at the '94 Rumble in his place). So for every revelation I had in those early years there's still a lot of shadows where I was completely clueless.

[willyjakes]

I could understand him needing to become a face with Hogan, since he is in Hogans inner circle, but the guy was a natural heel. As a face he can't use the megaphone to hit people...but all he did while latching on to Hogan was yell "c'mon baby c'mon baby c'mon hulk you got this baby" it was pretty annoying to be honest.

[Deleted]

The original way they turned him face was great with him getting shoved by IRS and Ted.

After that though? (fart noise.)

[dangerousdanpotato]

Aside from all the departures around this time were a large array of head-scratching turns that left the WWF landscape almost unrecognisable. This one at the time felt particularly surreal and contributed to my sense of no longer watching the same WWF. They'd established a new tone and new order and suddenly Hulk is thrust back into this, and Jimmy Hart is his face manager!?

Jimmy showing compassion during the Money Inc beatdown of Beefcake was ok, but then showing up by his side as his manager the next week was the first time I ever consciously rolled my eyes and thought, "jesus WWF is cheesy".

[Kevin Hamilton]

Jan 25, 2015 23:14:59 GMT -5 jmule said:

To this day I still can't get over him becoming hogans manager..just bizarre..

Same here. They didn't really fit at all. Plus as OP mentioned, Jimmy's whole weaselly character didn't lend itself to being a face in the slightest.

[Clash, Never a Meter Maid]

It was.....weird.

Hogan has never needed a mouthpiece, certainly not when he's Hulkamania. I guess Hogan and Jimmy wanted to keep working together after Jimmy tried to save Beefcake.