10 Deluded Wrestling Shoot Interview Revelations That Will Melt Your Brain

8. Hulk Hogan's Take On The Montreal Screwjob

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November 9, 1997.

WWF Survivor Series. At the close of a chaotic, underrated main event of palpable worked animosity, the shoot animosity shared between Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels and Bret Hart and Vince McMahon reached an incredible, industry-shaking crescendo. Referee Earl Hebner called the match with Bret Hart trapped in his own Sharpshooter, under orders from Vince McMahon, and the match - Bret Hart's WWF career - was over. Hart spat in Vince's face onscreen, punched him in the eye offscreen, and departed for WCW.

April 2, 2000. WrestleMania 2000.

Or April 1, 2001. WrestleMania X-Seven. One of the two; Hulk Hogan can't quite remember.

"All the fans were yelling "Bret screwed Bret"," Hogan recounted on radio a few years back. All those Canadian fans that loved Bret guessed the verbiage Vince McMahon would attempt to get over as spin eight days later, and used the newfound invention of time travel to get one over on...their hero.

"Shawn Michaels pulled a fast one on Bret Hart, and held him down and pinned him, and Bret couldn't do anything about it. The so-called Excellence of Execution, supposed to be the greatest wrestler of all, little teeny-weeny Shawn Michaels held him down and embarrassed him."

Yeah, Bret, you f*cking wimp. You should have torn every muscle in your back to kick out. That's would Hogan would have done, brother!

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