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The Montreal Screwjob:
The evil and greedy promoter screws over the hometown Hero. A tried and true method of wrestling physiology that has been used for many years. Except this time, it was real damnit!
Bret Hart was extremely popular in Canada and had told Vince McMahon he would not drop the belt to Shawn Michaels there. He would lose in any other country, but not Canada.
The two men hated each other, and Hart was not about to do the job for Michaels, in front of his own countrymen.
It was just weeks before this that McMahon had told Hart that he was letting him out of his contract, because he couldn’t afford to keep him. There was only one slight problem with that, Hart was WWF World Champion at the time.
McMahon, well aware of what they did to WCW with Flair, and then WCW repaying the insult by having Blaze show up with the WWF belt and trashing it, was scared that it would happen again.
He was not letting Bret Hart appear on WCW television with his belt. Thus the plan was put into motion to screw him by pulling a double cross in his match against Shawn Michaels at the 1997 Survivor Series.
They did exactly that as Michaels locked Hart in his own move, the Sharpshooter, as referee Earl Hebner called for the bell to be rung. Hart never had a chance to do anything, even submit, or try to reverse the hold.
It is urban legend that all of this was staged, and in fact, Hart knew about it the whole time. As the years go on, more and more leaks have come out and it seems likely that it may have been staged.
Either way, it was the last night of Bret Harts WWF career that had any actual meaning. He would stay away until 2010 before showing up briefly in a forgettable WrestleMania match against Vince McMahon.
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