After the production meeting concluded, all three hours of it, we finally got out of there, grabbed some food, had a beverage or two and, for some of us, to partake in the hideous habit of smoking a cigarette. Other people can claim credit, but the onus falls on McMahon. I’m watching for a spot, and then all of a sudden, the bell rings. All you have to say to most wrestling fans is “Montreal Screwjob” and they know it’s about WWE Survivor Series 1997.The short version of the story is that WWE’s Chairman Vince McMahon screwed Bret Hart of the WWE Title because Bret refused to drop the title to Shawn Michaels, who he hated at the time. We’d been around the block a couple of times, so we should be okay there. But even this moment — and it’s a pivotal one — is disputed by multiple sources close to the story. You knew nothing on-purpose because you can honestly tell each and every one of them how you feel about what went down and be honest with them and that you did not know. Both Michaels and Prichard have exonerated Patterson. File:Montreal-screwjob 5557.jpg. At the time, Prichard was McMahon’s right-hand man. We felt that we were good enough and knew the game well enough that we could narrate whatever you put on our monitor. But Prichard didn’t buy it. We went over the show for approximately three, insufferable hours but only discussed the time that the match would need, who would be introduced first, and other general production elements regarding the match. Slaughter was ringside for the Montreal Screwjob. '” Michaels told ESPN in a recent interview. On the mat alongside Hart, Michaels sold anger just as much as Hart. But Hart’s situation was unique in the wrestling business. Well, he signed a purported three-year contract with a $3 million annual salary from deep pocketed WCW but a concussion and subsequent health issues including a stroke ended Bret’s in-ring career. What happened next is legendary. “I just recall, up to that point, there being big scuttlebutt all over like ‘Dun dun dun — what’s going to happen with Bret leaving? McMahon and Hart’s falling out had been a long one. "I was watching at Gorilla Position (right behind the entrance curtain) with Davey Boy and Owen Hart. What happened next gets a little lost in the shuffle. And then Richter began to complain about her payoffs and merchandise income. I’m often asked why we went off the air so abruptly and seemingly planned to perfection. He wasn’t going to lose to Shawn Michaels. As soon as Michaels locked in the hold, Hebner called for the bell immediately. Well, that was sort of a hilarious accident. Hebner’s call in the ring was vital to make the finish work. "It was a pretty close-knit group who knew about the screw job," Hart said during a 2014 interview with Sports Illustrated. That’s when Vince started to explain his position. It’s easy to pin all of the WWE’s 1980s success on Hulk Hogan, but don’t underestimate how big a star Wendi Richter was, too. We felt that we did a better job when we called the matches like a sporting event and the less we knew about the endings, etc the more natural and spontaneous we could make it. Even though Hart was a five-time world champion for McMahon, issues arose when Vince offered Hart a multi-million-dollar, 20-year contract. Not so fast my friends. Afterwards, Hart spat on McMahon and destroyed a set of ringside television monitors before getting physical with McMahon in the locker room after the bout after some help from The Undertaker. They were going to be a party to in as much as it was going to be the soundtrack that would accompany the video of the fateful night for time and memorial. That’s a debatable point. Both Bret and Shawn were extremely open and honest and certainly took major steps in publicly clearing the air of their longtime grievances. The Montreal Screwjob. And the supposed one-punch knockout from Hart, following the match? And the odds are that the whole thing is legit. Pro Wrestling Torch’s Wade Keller offered more details in the November 15, 1997 edition of his newsletter: “However, a two-hour meeting was held on the second floor of the Montreal Marriott on Saturday night with McMahon, Jim Ross, Pat Patterson, Jim Cornette, and Michaels,” Keller reported. There may be a message there we can all use today when it comes to being so dependent on our gadgets and not our ability to look a person in the eye and get to the heart of the matter. Bret Hart went to WCW, where he was criminally under-utilized. He never seemed at home in the WCW environment, and for their part, the booking committee there never really seemed to know how to position him. The product of “The U” was the trash-talking, pie-eating, brash but oh so talented, ass-whipping People’s Champion who has gone on to become one of the biggest movie stars in the world. Then, Kevin Dunn, the executive producer, is in my ear like ‘OK JR, we’re out in 10, 9 … ‘ It was a quick out. Hebner was interviewed Thursday on Sirius XM's Busted Open and said he believes both Shawn Michaels and Bret knew how the match was going to end ahead of time. “… Bret Hart screwed Bret Hart,” McMahon said. WWE: World Wrestling Entertainment.Nowadays the largest professional wrestling company in the world. They also reminded him he was mic’d, with a microphone behind his ear, so they could hear everything he said. (P.S. Bret claims he hit McMahon with an uppercut to the jaw, one so perfect that it lifted him off his feet, and that McMahon sprained an ankle when he fell. If your unsure of what The Montreal Screwjob is I’m sure if you look it up you will have at least heard about it, so I’m not going to explain what actually happened at Survivor Series 1997. Triple H also voiced his opinion, telling Michaels, “Fuck him. But at that point, what was there to do? I am going to get Bret in the Sharpshooter, and I need you to ring the bell.'”. Hart let the locker room think Michaels had heat with him when in reality, there was no heat at all–at least at that time. What occurred was one of the most historic moments in WWE history. “And then, of course, was, I guess, an infamous phone call between myself and Hunter and Vince — I want to say it was just the week before. I’m of the mindset that there are still those in the internet wrestling community that totally believe that I was in on the planning, but I hate to disappoint them but I’m clean on this one. “It was a situation where Bret didn’t want to lose in Canada,” Cornette said during an interview with WrestleTalkTV. Once he realized what happened, Bret Hart was livid. 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. Prichard was more succinct on his podcast. “It was about seven o’clock when I walked into the locker room,” Michaels wrote in his autobiography. hbk shawn michaels bret hart vince mcmahon wwf wwe wcw 1997 97 “I think [the screwjob] was so compartmentalized that the guys that were in on it don’t even know who else was,” Waltman said. All rights reserved. With Hogan leading the way, wrestling was popular. “Bret was wrestling that night in Detroit. 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. Because the WWE stakes were so high, it’s pretty easy to see whose idea the whole thing was: Vince McMahon. As Ross was fond of saying on commentary: Business was about to pick up. McMahon agreed, even though he knew the situation would likely turn physical. Not true. I was under the impression that the match was going to end via a disqualification therefore Hart would retain the title, even though he had finalised a contract to take his considerable skills to Atlanta and WCW for a groundbreaking, massive-money contact. “If they were working, they were working me, too,” he said on his podcast. Hart went to WCW, where he was a fish out of water — but he was also making $2.6 million per year with his new deal. I had nothing in my mind as far as what we were going to say. Despite their personal feelings, Hart and Michaels were professionals when it came to putting on a show for the fans. In 1997, Bret Hart was put in his own submission move by Shawn Michaels at Survivor Series and Vince McMahon called for the bell in what has become known as the Montreal Screwjob … I dunno.'”. There are a lot of people who believe it might have all been a work. Most of my work was done in-person and not via phone, text, etc. IT’S been nearly 20 years since the infamous “Montreal Screw Job,” involving Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels and, seemingly, a cast of thousands went down in Montreal. Patterson swore he didn’t know but also offered up his own face, saying, “Maybe you want to punch me, too?”. “Watching it, I thought it was a mistake. Waltman added that Hart would not have told anyone, including his wife, about his involvement. “Pat didn’t know,” he said. I said, ‘You have to be the voice of the dressing room and the leader now that I’m gone.’, “I always felt that I was the leader of the dressing room and looked after everything. Prichard, in fact, was working the Gorilla position for the match. Similarly, Michaels called Hart “sheer joy” to work with in the ring. Eventually, after the mics were cut, Hart used hand gestures to spell out ‘W-C-W’ toward the hard cam. It was the Montreal Screwjob, and it happened on this day 20 years ago. The finish of the title bout main event on Nov. 9, 1997, at Molson Centre was decided covertly and without the WWE Champion, The Hitman’s, knowledge resulting in a new champion and the never-ending questions and submissions, like this one, to debate what actually went down and what is fact and what is fiction. The place: Montreal, Quebec. "I didn’t know it was coming. Rumors and expressions of surprise and shock pervaded the Internetalmost immediately after the match ended. DVR saves the day. After all, this isn’t the first time Vince used a screwjob tactic to get the title off of an upstart talent. Vince McMahon had wrestled with the decision to take the title from Bret without Bret’s knowledge or co-operation to protect the WWE from the title showing up on WCW TV. Now, as part of the rising D-Generation X faction, Triple H was getting a renewed push and being brought into the inner circle of the McMahon family’s trust. The Montreal Screwjob was the real life double-crossing of defending WWF Champion Bret Hart by Vince McMahon, during the main event of 1997 Survivor Series PPV, held in Montreal, Quebec. fozzy sandpaper six _A.M- this is gona hurt : shinedown breaking inside se gostou da um like e se inscreve pra ter mais próximo depois do elimination chamber Hart, for his own part, didn’t believe Michaels (and rightly so. Shawn would go on to win the match against Taker to become the #1 contender. In order to punish Shawn for costing him the title Taker would face HBK in the first ever Hell In A Cell match at In Your House: Bad Blood in October of 1997 with the winner going on to Survivor Series in Montreal, Canada to face Hart for the WWF title. After the Brisco brothers sold their interest in the Georgia wrestling territory, they’d gone to work for McMahon. During an interview with RF Video, Lawler said, “I wouldn’t be surprised if Vince and Bret were in on it.”. The Montreal Screwjob has been discussed ad nauseam in the 20 years that have passed since the night of 9th November, 1997, proving Meltzer's prediction to be accurate. 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.”. Hart was comfortable for a couple of reasons: 1) Longtime ally Patterson was the agent in charge of the match, and 2) referee Earl Hebner and Hart were close friends. Afterward, she never spoke to Moolah again. He witnessed the fight between Hart and McMahon that followed the match. And, whether he wanted to admit it or not, Hart enjoyed working with Michaels, saying that he had the “utmost respect” for HBK as a performer. There is some belief that at this meeting, McMahon proposed the idea of the finish to whoever of that group wasn’t already in on it. What about Bret Hart? He thinks he would have known if the whole thing had been faked. In trying to help his boss up, Brisco clumsily stepped on McMahon’s leg and injured it. Hart’s post-concussion syndrome following the Goldberg match would eventually cause his contract to be terminated by WCW. He couldn’t risk the WWE world champion showing up in WCW with the title belt. 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?”. "The Montreal Screwjob" was as real as it gets in the world of professional wrestling. He was stunned at what he was being asked to do. After the match, an infuriated Richter left the arena in her wrestling gear, took a cab to the airport, and booked herself on a flight out of New York. Thank God for that. But in his autobiography, Michaels wrote that Patterson didn’t know — that HBK and the WWE brain trust had intentionally kept the Canadian legend in the dark about their plans for The Montreal Screwjob. Hart was leaving WWE for WCW and McMahon conspired to have him drop the belt with a phantom tapout to Shawn Michaels' sharpshooter. By using this site, you agree to the legal terms set out in our Disclaimer, Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and Disclosure. “There was certainly no talk of it, for me, one way or another, until that phone call the week before Survivor Series.”. That’s the big question when it comes to The Montreal Screwjob: who knew, and when did they know? ‘We are doing a big swerve tonight. If he did anything to tip me off, they’d fire him.". The Montreal Screwjob will go down as one of the most infamous moments in wrestling history. But then, after a little more than 12 minutes of action — just past the halfway point of the match Patterson had helped them lay out — Michaels put Hart into the Hitman’s signature finishing maneuver, the Sharpshooter. The long winding road to get there was full of speed bumps, most of it complications that come with big business and the politics that come with a talent roster full of big egos and insecurity. In an interview with Sean Oliver of Kayfabe Commentaries, Sean Waltman discussed the Montreal Screwjob in depth. But business tanked for the WWE, and WCW was crushing the company in the ratings and PPV buyrates. “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. Her work with Cyndi Lauper and Lou Albano formed the Rock-n-Wrestling connection and got WWE a ton of positive press on the fledgling MTV network. At that time, I was the head of talent relations and managed the talent roster many of whom would need plenty of counsel post-”Screw Job.” Dr Drew and Dr Phil had nothing on me in November 1997, especially. Misconception: J.R. and Jerry Lawler knew the finish and what was occurring. That is a working business. And Jim Ross says he also didn’t know, despite what the dirt sheets reported. Shawn Michaels knew. Undertaker was always a force in the dressing room.”. He said that if McMahon had told Bret to lose to the Brawler, Hart would have fought it. As the legend of the Montreal Screwjob grew, multiple people tried to take credit for it. He mouthed, “I love you” to the fans. Well, that didn’t necessarily convince some people. Vince McMahon and figurehead WWE president Sgt. In fact, he continues to work for McMahon as a talent scout. He was putting on his referee gear, and I started to put my boots on. In a shoot for RF Video, Steve Blackman said he would be willing to believe the Montreal Screwjob was a work: It’s possible that Bret knew – absolutely. Hart said The Undertaker came to his aid because of the work Hart had done to help him during the 1990 Survivor Series, which served as The Undertaker’s debut with the company. When they arrived at the dressing room, Taker cleared the place out of everyone except Vince’s entourage and the people involved in the match. However, two wrestling journalists shed a different light on Patterson’s involvement. Other winners include: Triple H, whose affiliation with HBK elevated Triple H’s game immensely and The Game ran with the opportunity. The Montreal Screwjob was the real life double-crossing of defending WWF Champion Bret Hart by Vince McMahon, the owner of the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), during the main event match of the professional wrestling pay-per-view event Survivor Series held on November 9, 1997 at the Molson Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Shawn Michaels took on Bret "The Hit Man" Hart at Survivor Series in Montreal. The Montreal Screwjob is one of the most important events in the history of Professional Wrestling.. I didn’t want to know," Ross told VICE during an interview for a piece that ran on the Nov. 9 anniversary of the Pay-Per-View. In the pro wrestling world the competition isn't real in sport but it is in spirit. However, Hebner has said that he was informed of Brisco’s finish shortly before going out for the match. Triple H came down to the ring to accompany the Heartbreak Kid to the back, while Hart spat directly in McMahon’s face. He then proceeded to tear apart the ring area, smashing tables and throwing TV monitors. But I digress. Even though Michaels claimed for years that he didn’t know about the Montreal screwjob, HBK finally came clean about his part in the plot). “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. As for McMahon’s ankle? This story originally appeared on FOX Sports US. Thank goodness that this was during the pre-smartphone world, which lessened the insanity. Before HBK left the WWE he passed to torch to Stone Cold in Boston at WrestleMania. At the end of the day how many lives did this pro wrestling incident adversely affect to any significant degree? "We never tracked down every little piece of minutia we could get. At one point, WWE was close to going under. Let’s address a few of those: Misconception: It was said that the finish of the match was discussed in the Saturday night production meeting held at the Montreal Marriott Hotel. During the match, The Spider broke from the pre-scripted events and pinned Richter’s shoulders to the mat. 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. In the production office, Jerry Brisco told McMahon that he needed to see Hart face-to-face. There’s no debate that WCW botched the Hitman’s tenure there creatively and never got the Calgary native close to being the star that he was in WWE the entire three-plus years Bret was in WCW. Waltman, who had spent time around Hart in the WWE, was confused as to how a seasoned professional like the Hitman couldn’t have seen the screwjob coming “a million miles away,” and felt there was a “high possibility” of the incident being a work. His in-ring career ended after a mule kick from Goldberg, who carelessly drove his blow home as hard as he could, during a match at Starrcade in 1999. He has covered Division I college athletics and professional sports including MLB and NFL games. “Pat was in the room with us [earlier], and he had no idea what was going to happen. I just kind of sat there for a minute and then said, ‘I guess fucking go out? Ring the bell! While Mr. McMahon was taking his place among the most hated heels in the history of professional wrestling, alongside… “Vince has a tendency to screw people in these types of situations.”. Shawn Michaels on his new book, the Montreal Screwjob and more Due to concussions, Hart was never afforded a final match with pomp and circumstance like … Russo, who was new to writing TV at the time, has often asserted that it was his suggestion, but according to Cornette and Prichard, that’s not true. A match, I believe, back in 1997, is lot better than most of the 2009 matches now. Watch 1997.11.09- Shawn Michaels vs. Bret Hart- Survivor Series - wwevideos on Dailymotion Your role in restoring a productive and professional locker room is going to be a challenge we have to meet,” the WWE Chairman told me. After Michaels put Hart in his own finishing move, McMahon came to ringside and motioned for the bell. There are as many “Divas” in the NFL as there are on reality TV. Bulging biceps can’t fend off paranoia and insecurities that a profession athletes and performers are plagued with on multiple fronts. Looking at this match with 2009 eyes, this match is still a good match. McMahon can be heard yelling, “Ring the fucking bell!” at timekeeper Mark Yeaton. In fact, it was about to boom. Below […] Not just fans, either. Cornette may actually have been the first to voice the option of a screwjob finish, but as Prichard said on his podcast, a lot of people in creative threw the idea around during the days leading up to Survivor Series. His job was to cue Davey Boy Smith and Owen Hart on when to run down to the ring to interfere in the supposed DQ finish of the match. That’s not true. I would even go so far as to say that The Screwjob could be in the top three most prolific moments in all of wrestling history. Misconception: Fans informed The Wrestling Observer and Pro Wrestling Torch, among many other sites, that when Pat Patterson, who was not told of the dirty deed, and myself appeared from the production meeting that he and I looked troubled, upset and visually “forlorn.” We did not talk about anything controversial in the production meeting but it was so damn long that the smokers in the room and those that were in need of a cocktail or were hungry were ready for the meeting to end after an hour much less three. According to his own words, Michaels and McMahon discussed the possibility of an underhanded finish about a week out from the event. Hart and WWE owner Vincent K. 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. Hart stripped out of his wrestling gear and went to take a shower. 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