I am reading his book now. At page 135 out of 300+. I never really followed him so have had no interest in reading his book. Just so happens I forgot to download a new book yesterday when I was going to beach (yay Florida!) and still had his on my ipad so I started on it.
I was completely unaware of the storied history he had in the business. So far I have learned that : (up to page 135 that is. It could change in later chapters)
After creating and molding The Spoiler and Mark Lewin, they became his best friends in the business. Along with Tim Brooks.
He was the driving force behind turning Dusty Rhodes face. And getting Dusty to do the shuck and jive routine that they both ripped off of Thunderbolt Patterson.
He created the legendary Bruiser Brody persona by telling him to go out and create chaos all over the place and no sell his opponents offense.
He hated working with Abdullah the Butcher because Abdullah flat out refused to lose most times. Once on a big card, Abby decided at the last minute he was not going to lose to Lewin so Hart told Abby it was a best of 3 falls. That Lewin would win the first, Abby would win the second and Abby would use his fork to get disqualified in the third. However, Lewin could legitimately put people to sleep and did so with Abby. When Abby came to, Lewin and Hart had already departed the building after picking up the win since the match was only for one fall, despite what they told Abby.
He saved two others from drowning after the plane crash despite being blown through the roof of the plane head first and having all his clothes ripped off in the process. He was unable to locate Shane despite swimming back out and looking for him.
He claims that Fritz really did not want his sons in the wrestling business. He wanted David in the NFL and Kerry in the Olympics. Kevin he allowed to wrestle simply because his knees were bad and he could not make a pro league cut and get drafted. Hart trained Kevin and Kevin secretly trained David and Kerry.
He said later that despite the immense popularity of the boys, Fritz stiffed them many times on pay. Often he would pay them $250 for their match, and their opponent would get $1000. When he loaned them out on tours of Japan, He charged $2500 for each, for each event. Which he kept $1500 of that pay himself. It was done deliberately in an effort to keep control over them as Fritz was a control freak and jealous of their popularity that surpassed his own.
That when things were looking bleak for a wrestler that was getting depressed over the business and lack of enthusiasm, Hart told the wrestler to reinvent himself. The wrestler came back with the worse name ever. Often Idle. Hart sent him to another territory and had him change his name to Austin Idol and he immediately became hot.
I'll add more later. But the book really is good if you haven't read it.
That Hart reallllllllllyyyyyy hates the Jarretts and Fuller wrestling family and their promotions were always garbage.