The Montreal Screwjob will always remain one of the most controversial topics in WWF history. After everything went down, Bret Hart punched Vince McMahon backstage.
Bret spoke about this on the Attitude Era Podcast and he went on to take a little shot at The Undertaker regarding this topic. Bret said he heard Undertaker say, “they had to do what they were going to do. There was no other option”, and Bret thought that was bullsh*t. However, this isn’t what The Undertaker said.
In 2020, Undertaker said the following about the Montreal Screwjob:
“I was pissed about the whole thing because I was like, I could have possibly been used to get what we needed. Take Shawn out of this, let me do it and then I’ll do business on the other side and I think Bret probably would have went for that.”
Bret then bragged about his punch to McMahon and how he lifted Vince ‘one foot off the ground’ with the greatest punch he ever threw. Here’s what The Hitman said:
“The Montreal Screwjob and all the lies and things they did to me. I have so much respect for what I did. If you were in my shoes, after everything that I did for them, for them to do what they did to me.
I always hear this crap like I heard Undertaker say, ‘they had to do what they were going to do. There was no other option’. Bullsh*t. I had another 6 weeks left on my contract. There were a million things that could have been done. It was a case of liars, cheaters, backstabbers, and guys that made that moment happen. Shawn, Triple H, Vince McMahon. I wish I knocked them all out. I have no regrets. It was the single greatest thing I ever did.
All I’ll say is this. Jimmy Snuka came up to me about 3 years after the Montreal Screwjob. He came up to me and shook my hand. He goes, ‘I want to shake the hand of the man that knocked out Vince McMahon. Everybody talked about doing it.’ He lied and screwed over so many guys. ‘Everybody talked about doing it, but the one guy who did it was you.’ That’s why he shook my hand. I think it says more about my real personality.
I was never a hot head or a guy that acted out and went off and punched everybody that I wanted to. If you were in my shoes that day, Vince was calling my bluff. He was going to confront me and wanted me to back down and take the high road. It was a gamble that he made and he thought he was going to try and get into a little altercation with me.
He wanted it to be a pull apart. Everybody pulls us apart and he can act like he stood his ground against me. In those fleeting seconds of having to think about this, ‘I can’t believe Vince McMahon is actually going to confront me.’ I didn’t charge him.
We actually walked up to each other and locked up like a wrestling match. Then I knocked him out with one punch and it was the greatest punch I ever threw. Absolutely beautiful uppercut. I lifted him about a foot off the ground, broke my hand. It was the sweetest punch I ever threw. I wouldn’t change anything about it. Vince McMahon can rot in hell.”
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