Bret Hart: I Wish I Knocked Out Triple H And Shawn Michaels After Montreal Screwjob, Vince McMahon Can Rot In Hell

Bret Hart has no regrets.

At the 1997 Survivor Series, Bret Hart was involved in one of the most infamous moments in all of professional wrestling when he was legitimately screwed out of his WWF Championship match vs. Shawn Michaels which would be dubbed, the Montreal Screwjob.

Following the incident, Hart would get a form of revenge when he knocked Vince McMahon out cold backstage before leaving with his family and never returning to the WWE for the next decade.

Hart recalled the moment when he put McMahon out cold, also noting that he wishes he could have done the same thing to Triple H and Shawn Michaels. Hart also mentioned that many legends in the business were proud of him for sticking it to McMahon after being screwed in front of his friends and family.

“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.’ Bullshit. I had another six 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 three 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.” Hart said to DNA on the Attitude Era Podcast,

Hart got another form of revenge at WrestleMania 26 when he submitted Vince in the middle of the ring with the Sharpshooter to avenge the Montreal Screwjob.

h/t to Fightful for the transcription.

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