Friday Night's Main Event

August 29th 1997
WWF Friday Night's Main Event aired on the USA Network when Raw was preempted on the weeks of August 29 and September 5 in 1997, due to USA's coverage of the US Open. 
This program averaged a low 1.5 rating.
The main event was Bret Hart defending his WWF Championship against Vader.

Magazine Cover of the Week

WWF Magazine

The Hart Foundation

August 1990

Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart R.I.P. (1955-2018)

Just seeing reports of the sudden and untimely death of "The Anvil" Jim Neidhart today August 13th 2018.   Various sources are reporting he fell at his home in Pasco County, FL and suffered head trauma and succumb to the injuries shortly after first responders reached his home.   

He was a member of the legendary original Hart Foundation with brother in law Bret "The Hitman" Hart and manager Jimmy "Mouth of the South" Hart in the WWF and was part of the national explosion of pro wrestling during the mid 1980s.   Holding the WWF tag team championship on 2 occasions as the Hart Foundation, he also was successful across the country in various territories holding many tag team titles. 

As part of the Hart Foundation he was won the Wrestling Observer Award for the 1997 Feud of the Year against "Stone Cold" Steve Austin.  

He is now most famous among today's fans as the father of current WWE Superstar Natalya "Nattie" Niedhart.   

Wrestling Magazine Cover of the Week

WWF Magazine

September 1994

10 Fascinating WWE SummerSlam 1989 Facts

Greatest Tag Team Finishers: WWE Top 10

10 Best WWE Tag Team Champions Ever

WE LOVE PRO WRESTLING!

WWF Magazine 

February 1996

Bret "Hit Man" Hart

Raw - Bret Hart & British Bulldog vs. Owen Hart & The Anvil

Nov. 7, 1994 - Monday Night  Raw turns into Family Feud as Bret Hart and brother-in-law British Bulldog battle family members Owen Hart and Jim Neidhart.

Superstars you didn’t know were brothers: 5 Things

WWF Tag Team Champions 1980s

The Hart Foundation

(Bret Hart, Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart and manager Jimmy Hart)

January 26th 1987

defeated The British Bulldogs and held the belts for 274 days.   Lost the belts on August 10th 1987 to the Rougeau Brothers.

August 27th 1990

defeated Demolition at Wrestlemania VI and held the belts for 209 days.  

Lost the belts on October 30th 1990 at The Main Event IV to the Rockers (Shawn Michaels and Marty Jannetty), however, the change was never acknowledged and the Harts kept the titles.  

 Wrestlemania VII (March 24th 1991) saw the Hart Foundation drop the titles to The Nasty Boys.

5 manager-Superstar combinations you forgot about: 5 Things

WWE 5 Things

Superstar-Manager Combinations You Forgot About

Happy Birthday Bret Hart

Bret Hart is celebrating his 57th birthday

born July 2nd 1957

The Hart Foundation 1997

WWF Tag Team Champions

The team of Demolition holds the record for the longest tag team title reign in WWF/WWE history.

They defeated the team of Strike Force (Tito Santana/Rick Martel) at Wrestlemania IV on March 27th 1988 in Atlantic City, NJ.  They held the title belts for 478 consecutive days.  They would lose the belts to the team of Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard (The Brain Busters) on July 18th 1989 during a taping for Saturday Night's Main Event.  Demolition would recapture the titles 76 days later on October 2nd 1989 in Wheeling WV.  This time they "only" held the titles for 72 days then lost them to the Colossal Connection (Andre The Giant/Haku) on December 13th 1989 in Huntsville, AL.
 The Colossal Connection held the belts for 109 days before meeting Demolition again on April 1st 1990 at Wrestlemania VI in Toronto, Ontario, Cananda.
The belts would belong to Demolition again and now they had added a 3rd member of the team, Crush, and due to the "Freebird Rule" any of the three members of Demolition could defend the tag team titles.
This would be the last tag team title reign for the team of Demolition, and they held the belts another 148 days.  The final loss would be at the hands of the now legendary Hart Foundation (Bret Hart/Jim Niedhart) at Summerslam on August 27th 1990.

Demolition held the WWF Tag Team Titles for a combined total of 698 days.  Oddly enough, the record for most days as tag team champion belongs to Demolition's long time manager, Mr. Fuji.  
He held the belts on 3 occasions with Professor Toru Tanka for 569 days and then added 2 more title reigns with Mr. Saito for 363.  This gives Mr. Fuji a combined total of 932 days at WWF Tag Team Champion.

Each Title change for Demolition as Tag Team Champions

SummerSlam in 60 Seconds: SummerSlam 1990

Match of the Night (WWF Tag Team Titles)

WWF Tag Team Title Match

Monday Night RAW

May 26th 1997

The British Bulldog and Owen Hart

WWF Tag Team Champions

vs

Shawn Michaels and "Stone Cold" Steve Austin

Match of the Night

WWF Tag Team Title Match

05/02/1987

Best 2 out of 3 falls Match

The Hart Foundation (Champions)

vs

The British Bulldogs

Match of the Night

Tonight we bring you a tag team match up from January 11th 1994 featuring two of the most famous brother combinations in the history of pro wrestling.


Rick and Scott Steiner

vs

Bret and Owen Hart

Your Match of the Night

From 1994 Monday Night Raw

Bret Hart and Davey Boy Smith vs Owen Hart and Jim Neidhart