My favorite line from any promo ever came from Jim ‘The Anvil’ Neidhart

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Wrestling With Shadows, the documentary on Bret Hart and his final year with WWE, is undoubtedly best remembered for the Montreal Screwjob and its fallout. When I think of it, though, I always think of the scene cued up in this video: Vince Russo walks up to Jim Neidhart and tells him “Jim, you close it.” He’s talking about a promo The Hart Foundation is going to film before their match against Steve Austin, Goldust, Ken Shamrock, and The Legion of Doom. Anvil responds to Russo by saying “with?” Bret comes in and tells him “close it with ‘we’re gonna get hungry, and we’re gonna forget our manners.’” It’s kind of a dopey line and Hart confesses to lifting it from a book of quotes. He also tries

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