Has Teddy Hart Changed At All in the Past 15 Years?
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The Hart Foundation breathes a breath of old and new into Major League Wrestling. The name is steeped in history and while Hart carries his own baggage with him and Davey Boy Smith Jr has made a success out of his own career, Brian Pillman Jr is the unpredictable spark that could take the group to new heights.
This isn’t all to say that Teddy Hart can’t somehow break out of the loop in which he’s found himself and begin to take some steps toward a more robust and well-rounded persona. Will the paranoia and general attitude problems ever be shaken by the leader of The Hart Foundation? Doubtful. Hart’s personal problems have been well-documented throughout the years and they are just that – personal problems that sometimes carry over into professional life. We all have them and as much as we try, it’s easier said than done to break those habits and snap out of those behaviors.
Everything beyond that, though, is fixable with Hart surrounding himself with others who could expand his mindset. On the surface level, Hart could take fashion pointers from Davey Boy Smith Jr and Brian Pillman Jr. Neither of these guys is lost in the wrestling gear trap of the early 2000s and Pillman has one of the greatest haircuts on any wrestler in any era. I don’t fully understand it – is it a mullet? Is it simply too poofy and puffy to manage? As a dude with large hair, I can relate and appreciate the mop. Please now prepare your Photoshops of Teddy Hart with Brian Pillman Jr’s hair and share them in the comments below.
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Pillman is the youngest member of the Hart Foundation and still looking to make his own name in the business as his MLW career gets underway. Despite being younger than his stable-mates and having far less experience, the youth influence of Pillman could steer Hart in brave new directions. Pillman has a decision to make about his own in-ring style and persona – will he replicate the moves and presence of his father completely or just use them as a jumping-off point to find his own footing?
While Hart is the obvious leader of The Hart Foundation, Pillman could be the one who basks in the spotlight. He has much more to prove than Hart and Smith as he puts his best foot forward in his MLW in-ring debut on September 6.
Though Pillman could be the future of the group, Hart looks to be at a crossroads at his career, which could go either way. He can either continue down the reckless path which has made his career a terrain too rocky for most to travel along, or he could examine the way Pillman Jr handles himself both in and out of the ring. Pillman, for instance, has already shown that he can make peace with past demons by aligning with one of his late father’s most heated rivals in Kevin Sullivan.
So, what can we do to move Teddy from 2002 to 2018? Get that man in some all-over print graphic tees ala Brian Pillman Jr and have Davey Boy teach him some in-ring psychology! As a trio, the three could easily lean on and learn from one another for the greater good of the entire group – but this all hinges on Hart making the right decisions.
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The future of Major League Wrestling is bright and its landscape is full of young, hungry wrestlers whose styles are a beautiful marriage of the early-2000s flying we all loved to gawk at, strong style, and mat wrestling to form fighters and matches that can surprise us at every turn. If Hart can shelf the problems that have plagued him in the past and look to the rest of the roster as contemporaries rather than warm bodies upon whom to dive as he traipses from high spot to high spot, then 2018 could be a year of rebirth for Teddy Hart.
Above all else, just get your act together and do the one thing we’ve all been waiting for – start bringing your cats to the ring with you again.