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| - [[Ficheiro:Bret hart.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Bret Hart a maior vitima do Montreal Screwjob]] O Montreal Screwjob foi um acontecimento real (shoot) envolvendo na época o WWF Champion Bret Hart e o chairman da World Wrestling Entertainment, Vince McMahon durante o evento principal do pay-per-view de wrestling profissional Survivor Series ocorrido em 9 de novembro de 1997, na cidade de Montreal, Quebec. Uma reunião secreta antes da luta pré-determinada que acabaria com Hart revertendo um finisher (sharpshooter) de Michaels, foi realizada com Shawn Michaels e o árbitro Earl Hebner. McMahon trocou as idéias e mandou Hebner soar o gongo antes de Hart reverter o finisher. Isto fez com que ele fosse para a World Championship Wrestling, após 14 anos na WWF.
- The reason for the screwjob was rooted in Hart's decision to leave McMahon's company for its chief competitor, World Championship Wrestling (WCW). Hart, who cited a clause in his contract that granted him "reasonable creative control", was steadfast in his refusal to lose a match hosted in his home country, Canada, especially against Shawn Michaels, with whom he did not get along. McMahon remained insistent that Hart should lose to Michaels in Montreal, fearing that his company's business would suffer if WCW announced Hart as its latest signing while he still held the WWF World title. Although Hart and McMahon agreed to a compromise on the match ending that allowed Hart to retain the title, McMahon was determined to remove the title from Hart.
- The Montreal Screwjob is one of the most important events in the history of Professional Wrestling. In 1997, the WWF was facing its most heated competition ever in the form of WCW. The Monday Night Wars were in full swing and the New World Order angle was giving WCW better ratings than the WWF. Vince McMahon's promotion was looking at some seriously hard times, and Vince himself was being forced to make some tough decisions. One of these decisions involved Bret "The Hitman" Hart.
- The Montreal Screwjob was an infamous sex scandal that occurred during the WWF's 1997 tour of Canadia. Vince McMahon, Bret Hart, Sunny and some revolting ring rats all got together, took vast amounts of alchohol and narcotics, then proceeded to have group sex. During this encounter, a totally wasted McMahon stuck his erect penis into what he believed to be Sunny's backside. Problem was it was Bret's! Bret, not swinging that way (not that there's anything wrong with that) was outraged/disgusted, and punched Vince out cold. Well at least there were no fruits there. Well, besides Kanyon.
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| - The reason for the screwjob was rooted in Hart's decision to leave McMahon's company for its chief competitor, World Championship Wrestling (WCW). Hart, who cited a clause in his contract that granted him "reasonable creative control", was steadfast in his refusal to lose a match hosted in his home country, Canada, especially against Shawn Michaels, with whom he did not get along. McMahon remained insistent that Hart should lose to Michaels in Montreal, fearing that his company's business would suffer if WCW announced Hart as its latest signing while he still held the WWF World title. Although Hart and McMahon agreed to a compromise on the match ending that allowed Hart to retain the title, McMahon was determined to remove the title from Hart. The screwjob has garnered a notorious legacy both on-screen and off, and was partly chronicled in the documentary film Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows. The far-reaching impact of the incident led to its adoption as a theme in matches and storylines of the WWF's Attitude Era and the creation of the character, "Mr. McMahon", the evil boss. Hart was ostracized from the WWF, while McMahon and Michaels continued to receive angry responses from audiences for many years. However, the relationship between Hart and McMahon later healed, culminating in Hart's induction on April 1 2006 into the company's Hall of Fame.
- The Montreal Screwjob was an infamous sex scandal that occurred during the WWF's 1997 tour of Canadia. Vince McMahon, Bret Hart, Sunny and some revolting ring rats all got together, took vast amounts of alchohol and narcotics, then proceeded to have group sex. During this encounter, a totally wasted McMahon stuck his erect penis into what he believed to be Sunny's backside. Problem was it was Bret's! Bret, not swinging that way (not that there's anything wrong with that) was outraged/disgusted, and punched Vince out cold. The next day Bret demanded that he be released from his WWF contract so he could jump aboard the sinking ship that was WCW. Well at least there were no fruits there. Well, besides Kanyon. When asked why he left the WWF, Bret responded cryptically "Vince screwed me and I can never forgive him for that. I can never forget the way it felt." Vince meanwhile who has no memory of that drunken drugfilled night in Montreal denies screwing Bret. In fact there was a another dude there also called Bret, and Vince claims it was this guy who made the homo move on the Hitman..."Bret screwed Bret". Nobody else cares, about from a small VERY vocal group of basement dwellers, who just WILL NOT stop whining "Vince screwed Bret!!!! Vince screwed Bret!!!!".
- The Montreal Screwjob is one of the most important events in the history of Professional Wrestling. In 1997, the WWF was facing its most heated competition ever in the form of WCW. The Monday Night Wars were in full swing and the New World Order angle was giving WCW better ratings than the WWF. Vince McMahon's promotion was looking at some seriously hard times, and Vince himself was being forced to make some tough decisions. One of these decisions involved Bret "The Hitman" Hart. In 1996, Bret had signed an unprecedented twenty-year deal with the WWF for a considerable amount of money -- but with Vince losing his shirt thanks to WCW, he felt that he would have to breach Bret's contract in order to keep the company alive; McMahon has been accused by Hart and others of exaggerating his financial situation at the time. Backstage tension between Hart and fellow performer Shawn Michaels were also reaching a boiling point around this time, and the fiscal security that the WCW contract offered was enough to get Bret to jump ship: in November 1997, Hart -- then the reigning WWF Champion -- signed a contract with WCW for a guaranteed three million dollars per year. Hart's last appearance on WWF programming would be Survivor Series 1997 (taking place in Montreal), where he faced Shawn Michaels in the main event for the WWF Championship. The event was not scheduled to be Bret's last booking with the WWF, as his working agreement ran for three weeks after the pay-per-view, and he had received verbal approval from WCW to work another PPV in early December where he likely would have dropped the title in a four-way match to either Shawn Michaels (if Michaels agreed to lose at Montreal) or another wrestler who would later lose to Shawn (if Michaels refused to job). Michaels refused to lose the Survivor Series match to Hart under any circumstances, and Bret made it clear that he would not lose to Michaels in Montreal. The exit clause in Hart's aforementioned contract required that Bret and Vince come to an agreement regarding any booking decisions regarding Hart, leaving him with all the cards. The pair's mutual stubbornness placed Vince between the proverbial rock and a hard place. The original plan for the match's finish (according to Bret) was for Shawn to use Bret's famous Sharpshooter submission hold against him while the referee was down. After Shawn applied the hold, Bret would reverse it, and feuding factions D-Generation X (which Michaels was a part of) and the Hart Foundation (which Bret led) would run in and cause the match to be tossed out, leaving Bret open to drop the title at the four-way match the next month (Bret briefly discussed simply giving up the title on TV, but at that point, Vince was committed to the Screwjob, and he agreed to nearly anything Bret said in order to get Hart to perform at Survivor Series). Vince was still angry over then-WWF Women's Champion Alundra Blayze tossing the WWF Women's Championship belt in the trash live on WCW's Nitro, and he was afraid Bret would show up on WCW programming with the WWF Championship and toss that belt in the trash (or worse) -- despite the fact that multiple lawsuits had been filed regarding the Blayze incident (and an earlier incident with Ric Flair taking WCW's world championship belt with him to the WWF). Since Bret refused to drop the belt to Shawn in Canada, Vince was worried about the possibility of Bret jumping ship with the championship belt. Well, that was Vince's story, anyway. More recent analyses by wrestling critics/historians says that the people pressuring Bischoff to sign Hart didn't want him to get over -- Bret was kept on the WCW shelf for over a month before popping a buyrate with the then-considered-washed-up Flair and being buried in pointless US Title feuds -- and the real reason for the Screwjob on Vince's end was the fact Bret was earning just shy of two million dollars per year [compared to Shawn's $750,000 per year]. Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Undertaker were negotiating new contracts at this point; when they compared themselves to the highest paid guy -- Bret Hart -- Vince got really scared. A plot was hatched and carried out the night of Survivor Series: when Bret was caught in the Sharpshooter by Michaels, Vince ran down to the ring and ordered the referee (Earl Hebner) to ring the bell as if Bret had submitted to the hold (despite Bret clearly not submitting in any fashion). This singular moment -- known today as the "Montreal Screwjob" -- was one of the most controversial and shocking events in the history of the entire pro wrestling industry. The Screwjob not only sent Bret packing to WCW without a real sendoff, but it also had a hand in destroying Kayfabe for many fans around the world, and it served as the launching pad for the "Mr. McMahon" character, which was played full hilt by Vince -- who famously said the next night on Raw that "Bret screwed Bret" -- as he feuded with Stone Cold Steve Austin during the Attitude Era. Bret left the WWF and spent three years floundering around in WCW thanks to crappy booking and nobody really knowing what to do with someone who was -- at the time -- the hottest free agent in Professional Wrestling (something that Vince himself predicted would happen). Thanks to an errant kick by Goldberg during a match, Hart suffered a career-ending concussion and has been retired from in-ring action ever since (a stroke suffered after his retirement has ensured that, save for special circumstances where he doesn't have to take a bump, he'll never be able to perform in the ring again). Following his retirement, Bret had very little love lost for WWE -- thanks both to the Screwjob and the death of his brother Owen in 1999 -- but managed to put his animosity aside to help preserve his legacy, working with WWE to produce a DVD set that was widely acclaimed as being a great retrospective on his career (it was initially going to be a smearjob set called "Screwed" until Bret heard about the plans). In 2006, Bret accepted induction into the WWE Hall of Fame, making his first appearance on WWE programming of any kind in nearly a decade to accept the honor. A few years later, Bret signed up again with the WWE to ensure that he got a proper and honorable exit from the business (see below). Shawn spent the next few months as the WWF Champion, but back injuries suffered during a Casket Match with The Undertaker at Royal Rumble 1998 eventually caught up to him. Following his loss to Steve Austin at Wrestlemania 14 (where he performed despite his injury causing him severe pain), Michaels spent the next four years on the shelf, making sporadic appearances for WWE while he slowly healed up. In this interim, Shawn not only admitted that he was aware of the plan to screw over Bret, but he became a born-again Christian. Shawn made his return to active competition in 2002; he remained one of WWE's most popular and skilled performers until his retirement at WrestleMania 26. In December 2009, Bret confirmed that he would return to WWE in 2010 to guest host the first Raw of the year (his first appearance on Raw in over twelve years), and during that show's opening segment, Bret made his peace with Shawn in the middle of the ring in one of the most surreal moments in wrestling history. He was (kayfabe) attacked by Vince at the end of the show, which set up an angle that led up to Wrestlemania 26, where Vince faced Bret in a "No Holds Barred" Match. Although Vince tried to bribe the rest of the Hart family into screwing Bret over again, they knew it was coming and double-crossed Mc Mahon, allowing Bret to finally make Vince pay for Montreal (via thirteen chairshots and The Sharpshooter) and get the full closure he'd been looking for. (As part of the angle, Bret's father -- legendary Canadian wrestling promoter/trainer and patriarch of the Hart family, the late Stu Hart -- was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame.) After WrestleMania, he appeared sporadically to help put over The Hart Dynasty (David Hart Smith, Tyson Kidd, and Natalya) and serve as Raw's General Manager for a brief period (he was eventually taken out by The Nexus). Both Bret and Shawn continue to make special "cameo" appearances at WWE events to this day. In late 2011, WWE released Greatest Rivalries: Shawn Michaels vs. Bret Hart on DVD and Blu Ray; the set -- a first-of-its-kind release for WWE -- was dedicated to the long rivalry between Hart and Michaels, which stretched back all the way to the feud between The Rockers and The Hart Foundation. The real meat of the DVD was Jim Ross' sitdown interview with both Hart and Michaels, who discussed their careers and their rivalry -- including the Screwjob -- at length. The DVD pretty firmly backs Bret Hart's side of the story, with Ross conceding that no one in the WWE had any fear of Bret pulling a Ric Flair with the belt, and that he had acted reasonably regarding the Survivor Series finish. The set was generally regarded as being one of WWE's best in years. Along with the extensive article on That Other Wiki, this 411mania column is a good rundown of the events leading up to and surrounding the Screwjob.
- [[Ficheiro:Bret hart.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Bret Hart a maior vitima do Montreal Screwjob]] O Montreal Screwjob foi um acontecimento real (shoot) envolvendo na época o WWF Champion Bret Hart e o chairman da World Wrestling Entertainment, Vince McMahon durante o evento principal do pay-per-view de wrestling profissional Survivor Series ocorrido em 9 de novembro de 1997, na cidade de Montreal, Quebec. Uma reunião secreta antes da luta pré-determinada que acabaria com Hart revertendo um finisher (sharpshooter) de Michaels, foi realizada com Shawn Michaels e o árbitro Earl Hebner. McMahon trocou as idéias e mandou Hebner soar o gongo antes de Hart reverter o finisher. Isto fez com que ele fosse para a World Championship Wrestling, após 14 anos na WWF.
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