WWE Hall of Famer John Bradshaw Layfield aka JBL who is also a former one time WWE World Champion recently looked back at the infamous Montreal Screwjob incident and talked about it. He said it was still a shoot, but Vince started playing it up on television.
The Montreal Screwjob was one of the most infamous incident in the history of professional wrestling. As mentioned it took place at the Survivor Series pay per view event of 1997. The Hitman Bret Hart defended his WWE Championship against Shawn Michaels on the main event scenario at Survivor Series 1997.
JBL Looks Back At The Montreal Screwjob
The original plan was Bret Hart would drop the title to Shawn Michaels. But Bret did not want to drop the title and he went into the match knowing he would not drop the title. Vince McMahon still wanted him to drop it so he called for the bill during the match to announce Shawn Michaels as the winner of this match. After the match, Bret Hart lost his cool, he spitted on the face of Vince and left WWE to join WCW.
The incident remained very famous in the world of professional wrestling. Vince McMahon Shawn Michaels and Bret Hart buried the hatchet later on but the incident will always remain one of the most infamous keep breaking incident in the history of professional wrestling.
John Bradshaw Layfield aka JBL who is also a former one time WWE World Champion recently spoke on Stories with Brisco and Bradshaw where he looked back at the infamous Montreal Screwjob incident and talked about it. He said it was still a shoot, but Vince started playing it up on television. He said;
“After the punch, Vince sells it to the dressing room. Next day, we went in for just a little bit because we wanted to see what was going to happen. We got this flight to Japan, but I got to see what’s going to happen. We see Vince. Later that night, he has a black eye for one of the photos. He didn’t have it that morning.
“Now it may have developed during the day. Fair enough, and it may just be a work that he was building on what happened, which is my suspicion, but a few more little fuels for the conspiracy fire. I don’t think it was a work. I’m just telling you what I saw. What I thought from what I saw was that it was not a work because I saw the guys in the back, you know, before the match.
“If this was a work, this would have been exposed by now. I think the next day, when Vince didn’t have the black eye, but he appeared to have one on television, either it came along throughout the day, or he’s decided to make this something a little bit bigger. That’s what I thought it was, that it was a shoot, but that Vince was going to make this into something a little bit bigger by, ‘Hey, we got something here. Let’s go with it’ is my opinion.”
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