The Montreal screwjob will always be remembered as one of the most infamous incidents in the history of professional wrestling. One particular instance saw Bret Hart hit Vince McMahon with a punch to the face. There are still many theories regarding that incident.
Superstars such as The Undertaker have their own theory regarding what transpired during the Montreal screwjob. According to his theory, Vince McMahon and Bret Hart planned for Hart to hit McMahon with a punch in the face in Montreal. During Bret Hart’s Confessions Of A Hitman series, the WWE Hall Of Famer revealed that was not true whatsoever.
Hart is still adamant on the fact that he was not given any chance to hit McMahon. He simply saw an opening and took it.
“The Undertaker had a take on it. His take on it a few months ago – and they always say stuff like, ‘Vince probably said before he walked in that he was going to let me take a shot at him.’ I don’t remember that ever happening and I don’t remember Vince saying anything like that to me in my dressing room that he’s going to let me take one shot at him. There was no one shot [offer]. I took my own shot. I doubt that’s the case. [McMahon] never saw it coming.”
“I think I knew Vince pretty well, especially at the time. What really was happening, I think, was a case of Vince trying to save face with his talent. I don’t know if he expected there to be such an uproar. There was a real uproar with the wrestlers and the talent where they were probably wondering how many wrestlers were going to show up in the dressing room the next day. That kind of thing. So, it was a grandstand moment for him to confront me in the dressing room and sort of look to my better nature. I’m a pretty easy going guy.”
“I think Vince gambled that I was going to take the high road and say a few words to him, and then I would walk out or grab my stuff, and leave the dressing room, and that would be the end of it, and he could say, ‘at least I confronted him.’”
McMahon has to this day never truly opened up about what happened during that fateful night.
