Editing Jimmy Hart (section)

===World Wrestling Federation (1985–1993)===
[[File:The Mouth of the South.jpg|thumb|right|Hart during his time as manager of [[Greg Valentine|Greg "the Hammer" Valentine]]]]
[[File:Flickr - simononly - WWE Fan Axxess - Classic Memorabilia-Ring Gear (21).jpg|thumb|right|Hart's jackets and [[megaphone]] at [[WrestleMania Axxess]]]]
In 1985, Hart's friend [[Hillbilly Jim]] recommended him to [[WWE|WWF]] owner [[Vince McMahon]], who hired him. He was nicknamed "the Mouth of the South" due to his loose-lipped style, often augmented by his trademark megaphone, which he used to instruct and encourage his protégés, to discourage and annoy opponents and announcers (especially [[Gorilla Monsoon]]) and also as a weapon. Hart's first acquisition in the WWF was [[Greg Valentine|Greg "the Hammer" Valentine]], then the [[WWE Intercontinental Championship|Intercontinental Heavyweight Champion]], whom Hart managed at [[WrestleMania I|WrestleMania]]. After Valentine lost the Intercontinental Heavyweight Title to [[Tito Santana]], Hart briefly co-managed the [[Dream Team (professional wrestling)|Dream Team]] (Valentine and Beefcake), until he was phased out and gave full control to [[Johnny Valiant|"Luscious Johnny" Valiant]]. At WrestleMania, Hart also managed [[King Kong Bundy]] as he defeated [[S. D. Jones]]. Hart later traded Bundy's contract to [[Bobby Heenan|Bobby "the Brain" Heenan]] for [[The Missing Link (wrestler)|The Missing Link]] and [[Adrian Adonis]]. He helped the latter to establish his "Adorable Adrian" gimmick. Hart also managed Jim "the Anvil" Neidhart. 1985 also marked the appearance of the legendary [[Bret Hart|Bret "Hitman" Hart]]. Jimmy Hart teamed him up with Jim "the Anvil" Neidhart to form the [[Hart Foundation]]. On January 26, 1987, Hart guided the Hart Foundation to the [[World Tag Team Championship (WWE)|WWF World Tag Team Title]], which they won from the [[The British Bulldogs|British Bulldogs]]. Disgraced-referee-turned-wrestler [[Dangerous Danny Davis|Danny Davis]] also was managed by Jimmy Hart.

In 1985, Hart took the Funk Family under his wing. The Funks included [[Terry Funk|Terry]] and [[Dory Funk Jr.|Hoss Funk]], as well as their [[kayfabe]] brother [[Jimmy Jack Funk]]. Hart wrestled on house shows with the Funks. On July 12, 1986, Hart won a battle royal to receive $50,000 at [[Madison Square Garden]]. When The Honky Tonk Man turned heel, Hart became his manager. In this position, Hart was nicknamed "the Colonel" in a reference to [[Colonel Tom Parker]], the manager of [[Elvis Presley]]. With Hart in his corner, the Honky Tonk Man captured the Intercontinental Heavyweight Title from [[Ricky Steamboat|Ricky "the Dragon" Steamboat]] on June 2, 1987, and held it until August 1988. During that time, the Honky Tonk Man feuded with [[Randy Savage]] and his manager [[Miss Elizabeth]]. "The Colonel" moniker stuck with him for years, even after the Honky Tonk Man departed the company in early 1991. At [[WrestleMania III]], Hart was involved in three matches and took some incredible bumps during the show. His first appearance was with "Adorable" Adrian Adonis who fought [[Roddy Piper|Rowdy Roddy Piper]]. Then came the six-man tag match, pitting the Hart Foundation and Danny Davis against the Bulldogs and Tito Santana. Jimmy Hart's third appearance on the show was when [[The Honky Tonk Man]] fought [[Jake Roberts|Jake "the Snake" Roberts]] who had rock legend [[Alice Cooper]] in his corner. Following that match, Hart was left alone in the ring where Roberts and Cooper teamed up to terrorise him with Roberts' pet snake Damien. Also in 1987, Hart managed the [[WWF Women's Tag Team Championship|WWF Women's Tag Team champions]] [[Judy Martin (wrestler)|Judy Martin]] and [[Leilani Kai]], known as [[The Glamour Girls]]. Martin and Kai mostly feuded with Japanese team the [[Jumping Bomb Angels]] ([[Noriyo Tateno]] and [[Itsuki Yamazaki]]).

Hart was named ''[[Pro Wrestling Illustrated]]'''s [[PWI Manager of the Year|Manager of the Year]] in 1987, an award he won again in 1994. At [[WrestleMania IV]], Hart received a haircut from [[Brutus Beefcake|Brutus "the Barber" Beefcake]], after interfering in the [[WWE Intercontinental Championship|Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship]] match between Beefcake and the Honky Tonk Man, helping Honky Tonk Man retain the title by getting disqualified. When the Hart Foundation fired Hart as manager (and [[turn (professional wrestling)|turned]] face) in 1988, Hart managed [[The Fabulous Rougeau Brothers]] to feud with his former team; the [[List of professional wrestling terms#A|angle]] was that Hart still retained the managerial rights to his former team and gave a portion of it to the Rougeaus, giving them the right to appear at ringside whenever the Hart Foundation wrestled. At [[SummerSlam (1988)|SummerSlam 1988]], Hart accompanied [[Demolition (professional wrestling)|Demolition]] and [[Mr. Fuji]] to help retain their WWF Tag Team title against the Hart Foundation. [[Bill Eadie|Ax]] used Hart's megaphone as a foreign object to strike Bret in the head and secure the victory. In 1989, Hart brought [[Dino Bravo]] into his stable after the departure of [[Jean Gagné|Frenchy Martin]]. Then at a push-up contest between the [[The Ultimate Warrior|Ultimate Warrior]] and Bravo, Hart and Bravo invited a large 460-pound man from the audience – later known as [[John Tenta|Earthquake]] – into the ring to sit on the contestants' backs. Predictably the large man was planted in the audience by Hart and Bravo and they eventually teamed up against the Warrior. In 1990, Hart groomed Earthquake to be the man to beat [[Hulk Hogan]]. Hart continued his war with his former tag team, the Hart Foundation. In 1990, he combined his protégés Honky Tonk Man and Greg Valentine into the short-lived team of [[Rhythm and Blues (professional wrestling)|Rhythm and Blues]], though they had teamed previously as themselves when facing the Hart Foundation at [[WrestleMania V]]. In 1991, he managed [[The Nasty Boys]] to defeat the Hart Foundation for the WWF World Tag Team title at [[WrestleMania VII]], this time using a motorbike helmet as a weapon.

When the Nasty Boys lost the title to the [[The Road Warriors|Legion of Doom]] at [[SummerSlam 1991]], Hart sent [[The Natural Disasters]], a team formed out of Earthquake and his former opponent [[Fred Ottman|Typhoon]] (formerly known as Tugboat), to depose the new champions. When the Disasters failed, Hart formed a new team in early 1992: [[Money Inc.]], composed of Hart's protégé [[Mike Rotunda|I.R.S.]] and [[Ted DiBiase|"the Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase]]. Money, Inc. defeated the L.O.D. Their title win led to the split between Hart and the Natural Disasters, who as [[Face (professional wrestling)|face]]s feuded with Money Inc. and exchanged the tag team titles twice in 1992. Their biggest match came at [[WrestleMania VIII]] when Money Inc. retained their titles by leaving the ring and forcing a count-out. In 1991, Hart had also brought in [[Jacques Rougeau|The Mountie]], who had a short reign as Intercontinental Heavyweight Champion in early 1992 after defeating Bret Hart on January 17, then losing it just two days later to Rowdy Roddy Piper at the [[Royal Rumble (1992)|Royal Rumble]]. A few months earlier, The Mountie feuded with the [[Big Boss Man (wrestler)|Big Boss Man]] over who was the "law and order" in the WWF. Their feud culminated in a match at [[SummerSlam (1991)|SummerSlam]] where the loser (in this case The Mountie) had to spend the night in a [[New York City|New York]] jail. Late in 1992, Money Inc. regaining the tag team titles from the Natural Disasters led to the Nasty Boys turning on their manager, as he had repeatedly substituted them for Money Inc. in title matches.

Hart broke with Money Inc. early in 1993 and turned face when the team attacked [[Brutus Beefcake|Brutus "the Barber" Beefcake]]. In the storyline, Hart, conscious of Beefcake's extensive facial injuries from a [[Legit (professional wrestling)|real-life]] parasailing accident three years prior which required extensive re-constructive surgery to Beefcake's face and all but ended his full-time career, felt that his team went too far, and tried to stop them. Hart even went so far as to cover an unconscious Beefcake with his own body to stop them from doing more harm. Beefcake's long time friend [[Hulk Hogan]] came out the following week and expressed gratitude to Hart for his uncharacteristically heroic actions. He managed both Beefcake and Hogan who at [[WrestleMania IX]] lost to Money Inc by disqualification. Later in the show, Hart for the first time would be the manager of the [[WWE Championship|WWF World Heavyweight Champion]] when Hogan accepted an impromptu challenge by [[Mr. Fuji]], the manager of the new champion [[Yokozuna (wrestler)|Yokozuna]] who had just defeated Bret Hart for the belt. Hogan would defeat the {{convert|505|lb|0|abbr=on}} new champion in a short match. At [[King of the Ring (1993)|King of the Ring]], Hart was in Hogan's corner as he lost the WWF World Heavyweight Title back to Yokozuna. This appearance was Hart's last in the WWF, as he, Beefcake and Hogan all departed the company.