10 Things You Didn’t Know About Jim Neidhart

5. He Felt Inadequate As An Announcer

Jim Neidhart's colour commentary career was short-lived. In fact, there will be hardcore fans of the early-'90s who barely (if at all) remember it happening.

For a brief spell after the original Hart Foundation tag-team broke up in 1991, Neidhart sat alongside Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby 'The Brain' Heenan on episodes of Wrestling Challenge between March-August. The whole thing, he told 3 Count Wrestling, was a whirlwind learning process he wasn't cut out for.

Next to well-versed, slick stars like Monsoon and Heenan, Neidhart felt out of his depth. They had a rapport he struggled to match, and he found commentary to be a million miles away from the shouty promos he'd done before; it also didn't help that Jim only did in-studio voiceovers for matches, and so he didn't have a live crowd to feed off of.

Within five months, Jim knew he wasn't fitting in with the super-smooth Monsoon and Heenan duo. A return to the ring was on the cards anyway, and it couldn't come soon enough for him.