The impasse set up a main event that might be the most well-known wrestling moments in the history of the sport.īooking the Match that Led to The Montreal Screwjob
Bret would agree, then he’d disagree, he’d agree, then disagree, he’d agree, then call back and say ‘Nah, I don’t wanna do that.’ It was a lot of give and take all week, trying to get to the point that we needed to get to.” "There was an uneasiness because Bret had been pretty difficult all week,” Prichard told VICE. Vince McMahon feared that Eric Bischoff might talk Bret Hart into pulling a similar stunt after the Hitman signed with WCW in 1997. Madusa Miceli debuts on WCW Monday Nitro and throws the WWF/WWE women’s title into a garbage can. 18, 1995, with the WWE women’s title and threw the championship into a garbage can. Nearly two years before that, the WWE Women’s champion, Alundra Blaze - also known as Madusa Miceli - had signed with WCW in 1995 and done exactly that. He couldn’t risk the WWE world champion showing up in WCW with the title belt. In the days leading up to Survivor Series, McMahon was almost constantly on the phone with either Hart or Michaels, enough so that it was disruptive to the creative meetings between McMahon, Cornette, and Russo. He was also going to leave - because that’s the one thing I faulted Vince McMahon for … why didn’t you take the belt off of him first, so that we wouldn’t have to go through all this?” “He didn’t want to lose before the Pay-Per-View because he didn’t want to disappoint his fans because he was advertised as champion. “It was a situation where Bret didn’t want to lose in Canada,” Cornette said during an interview with WrestleTalkTV.
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Hart had become harder to work with, especially as the Survivor Series loomed closer.
“He’d want to know ‘How does that make sense?'”
He said that if McMahon had told Bret to lose to the Brawler, Hart would have fought it. “He told us that he would lose it to the (perennial jobber) Brooklyn Brawler in Madison Square Garden, but that he wouldn’t drop the title to Shawn in Canada,” Prichard said on his podcast, Something to Wrestle. He wasn’t going to lose to Shawn Michaels. Hart had shot down every idea McMahon, and his brain trust - Bruce Prichard, Jim Cornette, Vince Russo, and a part-time Pat Patterson - had pitched.īut Hart stuck to his guns. McMahon had gone back and forth for weeks over whether Hart would drop the title to Shawn Michaels, with Hart maintaining that he wouldn’t lose to Michaels in Canada.īecause Hart had “reasonable creative control” over the finishes to his matches, McMahon felt backed into a corner.
Although he was the world champion, he’d just signed a lucrative deal with WCW and planned to forfeit the WWE’s title the next night on Monday Night Raw before jumping ship to Nitro. “Vince has a tendency to screw people in these types of situations.”īut Hart’s situation was unique in the wrestling business. “Be careful out there,” White told his friend. Right before Bret “the Hitman” Hart walked to the ring for the main event at Survivor Series 1997, fellow wrestler Leon White - better known as Vader - beckoned him over. With barely 12 minutes gone in their Survivor Series 1997 match, Bret Hart found himself caught in his own finishing hold - and then in the most talked about wrestling conspiracy of the 20th century. The Montreal Screwjob was a well-planned manipulation by Vince McMahon behind closed doors to get the title away from Bret Hart before leaving for WCW.
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