Jimmy "the Mouth of the South" Hart
Real name: James Hart
Hometown: Memphis, TN
A.K.A.: the Strapmaster, the Colonel, the Memphis Chicken
Membership: Titan, Inc., the Gentrys
Finishing move: N/A
Background: A loudmouth, but an entertaining one.
Jimmy, if fate had gone another way, would probably have remained a member of a half-way decent rock and blues band, touring medium sized clubs.
That didn't happen; instead he ran into Jerry Lawler and figured "Hey, I want to see someone knock the hell out of that guy. Why don't I make that happen?" and thus the First Family was born. This got him on Titan's radar and soon he was pushed alongside Slick and Captain Lou. Hart first worked with Greg Valentine, but it was his mentoring of the Hart Foundation that cemented his role as a manager.
For most of the 80s he was there, usually out in front and causing a distraction while his boys were up to no good. He had the best of the best, even the Missing Link but when the 90s came, things changed.
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