Jimmy got his big break with one of his idols, Jerry "The King" Lawler in Memphis Tennessee and went on to take part in the legendary angle involving Andy Kaufman, serving as his manager against Lawler in high profile matches in 1982. He would serve as one of Hulk Hogan's first managers, when Hogan was a rule breaker feuding with Jerry Lawler of the Mid-South Heavyweight Title. Jimmy would also manage a young Koko B. Ware, Beautiful Bobby Eaton and Koko B. Ware among others in a stable he called the First Family before getting the chance of a life time. 

    Jimmy Hart joined the World Wrestling Federation as part of its national expansion when the Grand Wizard passed away suddenly and Captain Lou Albano became a fan favourite, leaving a large gap in heel managerial talent. He would enter the WWF managing the giant King Kong Bundy to his record, 9 second victory over SD Jones at Wrestlemania I as well as managing Greg "The Hammer" Valentine to the WWF Intercontinental Title in 1985. He was instrumental in forging the Hart Foundation team of Bret Hart and Jim Neidhart and also went on to manage Dory Funk Jr. and Terry Funk during their brief WWF tenure as a tag team. He co-managed the team of Greg Valentine and Brutus Beefcake to the WWF World Tag Team Titles in 1985 before selling his share to Lucious Johnny Valiant, and focused on his other talent including Adorable Adrian Adonis, who would meet Rowdy Roddy Piper in a Hair versus Hair match at Wrestlemania III in front of 93,173 fans that featured heavy interferance from a high flying Mouth of the South. Jimmy would serve as the manager of former WWF referee, Dangerous Danny Davis, during that storyline before leading the Honkey Tonk Man through the longest Intercontinental Title reign in the history of the WWF after defeating Ricky Steamboat. Jimmy Hart also managed the reigning WWF World Women's Tag Team Champions, Judy Martin and Leilani Kai, in their feud with the Glamour Girls from 1987 to 1988 before they left the company. 

    Jimmy Hart suffered a forced haircut at the hands of Brutus Beefcake at Wrestlemania IV and would feud with Beefcake through 1988. When Jimmy's Hart Foundation turned face and fired Jimmy, he began managing the Fabulous Rougeau Brothers leading to some classic matches. He also served as a guest manager for Ax and Smash of Demolition when they defeated the Hart Foundation at the inaugural Summer Slam in 1988. Jimmy Hart began managing Dino Bravo in 1989 and quickly added the enormous Earthquake to his stable, becoming the top heel faction in the WWF to feud with Hulk Hogan and the Ultimate Warrior. Jimmy Hart also forged Rhythm & Blues by pairing Greg Valentine with the Honkey Tonk Man and they became instant contenders for the WWF Tag Team Titles. 

    Jimmy Hart finally got revenge over the Hart Foundation at Wrestlemania VII when he lead the Nasty Boys to defeat them for the WWF Tag Team Titles. He then lured Tugboat to his stable, renaming him Typhoon and pairing him with Earthquake to form the awesome Natural Disasters tag team. When the Nasty Boys dropped the gold to the Legion of Doom at Summer Slam 1991, Jimmy sent the Disasters after them and began the process of trying to get the gold away. In early 1992, Jimmy Hart replaced the Sensational Sherri as the manager of Money Incorporated (Ted DiBiase and IRS) who beat the Legion of Doom with help from the Natural Disasters, who thought they would get a title shot. Jimmy Hart turned his back on the Disasters to keep the gold on Money Inc, leading to a Wrestlemania VIII match that Money Inc lost, on purpose, by countout. The Disasters would win the gold as fan favourites, but lost the gold back to Money Inc. By that time, though, the Nasty Boys began to have doubts about their chances to win the titles and they turned on Jimmy and Money Inc to become fan favourites and chase the titles as well. 

    Jimmy Hart's WWF career changed forever when Brutus Beefcake made his return to the WWF to face Ted DiBiase on RAW. IRS and DiBiase vowed to break Beefcake's surgically repaired face and during the match, they ripped off Beefcake's face guard and proceeded to smash him with the briefcase of IRS. Jimmy, though, couldn't take it and he stood up for Beefcake, resulting in IRS throwing him from the ring. Jimmy Hart became an instant fan favourite and brought Hulk Hogan back to the WWF to help him and Beefcake take down Money Incorporated. Beefcake and Hogan lost to Money Inc by disqualification at Wrestlemania IX, but, later in the night Hulk Hogan came to the ring to help his friend Bret Hart and ended up defeating Yokozuna for the WWF Title in an impromptu battle! Jimmy Hart would become, primarily, Hogan's manager from then on and appeared less and less on WWF programming. He managed Hulk Hogan during his King of the Ring 1993 loss to Yokozuna and then left the WWF to tour with Hogan in Japan. Jimmy Hart was a great contributor in the WWF, though, using his musical talents to write many of the WWF's great entrance themes including Hogan's "Real American" and Shawn Michaels' first entrance theme, "Sexy Boy". 

    Jimmy Hart returned to wrestling in 1994 with Hulk Hogan in World Championship Wrestling and lead Hogan to defeat Flair for the WCW World Title at the 1994 Bash at the Beach, becoming one of two managers (the other being Elizabeth) who managed the WWF and WCW World Champion at different times in their career. Jimmy Hart played a limited role in terms of storylines but that changed at Halloween Havoc 1995 when Jimmy Hart turned on Hogan to help the Giant win the WCW World Title. Jimmy then began managing the Dungeon of Doom which included Kevin Sullivan, Kamala, Avalanche (who he managed as Earthquake in the WWF), Meng and the Barbarian. Jimmy Hart would continue to feud with Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage, also becoming a manager of sorts for the 4-Horsemen including Anderson and Flair. 

    Jimmy Hart became the creative director of WCW Saturday Night's Main Event, the company's former flagship show, using it to feature up and coming talents in what was a vague attempt at a brand extension as the Nitro and Thunder stars rarely overlapped with the primarily Saturday Night stars. Jimmy would manage Meng and the Barbarian as well as Jerry Flynn and Hugh Morrus to reprise the First Family, a name he used for his stable in his early days in Memphis. When WCW folded, Jimmy Hart worked with Hogan, Brian Knobbs and Greg Valentine to forge the XWF, which was short lived. Rumblings began that Jimmy could return to the WWF and began making backstage visits on a regular basis. He made his return to WWF, now WWE, television in March of 2003 with Hulk Hogan. He also appeared in TNA, hyping the possible Hogan debut, but when Hogan pulled out, Jimmy Hart was left to other things and began managing Sting, AJ Styles and others against Lex Luger, Jeff Jarrett and others. Jimmy Hart received a job with TNA behind the scenes and served as one of the first managers for the Naturals tag team. 

    When Jimmy Hart was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2005, TNA did not balk, but when Jimmy decided to take part in the RAW special, WWE Homecoming, TNA decided to terminate his contract. Jimmy Hart defended his decision saying he would do anything for the company that made him a star. He would go on to tour Iraq with WWE superstars and Vince McMahon on two occasions and reunited with the original Hart Foundation for a legends ceremony in 2005. Dory Funk Jr gave Jimmy a high honour, the Funking Conservatory Fighting Heart Award for outstanding performance in wrestling in January of 2006. Jimmy continues to appear on the independent circuit managing old friends like Greg Valentine and occasionally does work for WWE.com and on WWE programming. 

    Jimmy Hart, welcome to the UWOW Hall of Fame! A man who broke the musical mold in terms of wrestling themes, managed the greatest of the great and toured the world, earning cheers and jeers, but only when he wanted them. Congratulations, Jimmy! You deserve this recognition as one of the greats of professional wrestling!