10 Things You Didn’t Know About Jim Neidhart
3. Owen Hart Regularly Ribbed Him In The New Foundation Days
In a way, The New Foundation experiment seemed like a giant rib at Owen Hart and Jim Neidhart's expense.
Wearing silly outfits that made them look less menacing than a children's TV host, the pair were a clumsy follow up on Jim's pairing with Owen's brother Bret a few years earlier. Still, if he wasn't having fun in front of the cameras, then keen prankster Owen was going to have a laugh away from them on the road.
Neidhart told one entertaining rib story to RF Video, and it's a cracker. In a genius move, Owen scooped up all the hotel room keys he could find one evening, then handed a random one to Jim and told him he could stay in his room because he wouldn't be using it. Delighted, Neidhart made his way up.
Minutes later, he stumbled in on a sleeping man who was terrified to see the burly wrestler invade his room. Owen had taken a duplicate key from the front desk and pulled a fast one on Jim, and Neidhart had helplessly fallen into the trap.
That almost makes those outfits worth it.