10 Wrestlers You Didn't Realise Wrestled For WWE In 1996

5. Jim Neidhart

The Anvil had a long and storied career in WWE, winning tag team gold on a couple of occasions alongside Bret Hart in the Hart Foundation. Jim Neidhart was the brawn of the team, a bulldozing beast of a man who made up in power what he lacked in technical prowess. His style juxtaposed well with that of The Hitman, and the Pink and Black Attack deserve their place in history as one of wrestling’s greatest ever teams.

By the middle of the 1990s, Hart and Neidhart’s careers were moving in very different directions. Bret went from strength to strength, excelling in the singles division and becoming the number one performer in the business. Neidhart stalled, troubled no end by personal issues and substance abuse. The Anvil was fired in 1992, spending the next few years bouncing around ECW, WCW and Japan.

You won’t see ‘Jim Neidhart’ on any WWE cards from 1996, but the big man was indeed present for a short amount of time in the middle of the year. He wrestled a handful of matches as Who, a masked heel that existed purely for the announcers to make quite terrible jokes. It is a gimmick that ranks up there with the worst of its time, which is an achievement in itself.

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