The Undertaker reveals how the infamous 'Montreal Screwjob' went down | WWE

so one night that your name always comes up in of course is the spur job and you sort of playing the somewhere between peacemakers slash you know kind of hearing broke out and enforcer can you take us through a little bit how you remember that thing playing out for you so you know a ton of Breton I know we still are we're pretty close and you know he Bret's radar was up like he he felt like something might go down and so I was kind of working my way around like I kept asking Earl Hefner and I was like hey do you hear anything is anything going on and you know every time I asked him it was it was no I don't think he found out till late he really late what was going to happen but yeah so I'm just kind of you know just keeping my you know my my ears and my radar was up like okay what's going to happen here if is anything gonna happen and then it was getting close to the getting close to the match time and this is the one place where I let my guard down someone said hey won't you go watch the match from Vince at his office and so I was thinking okay that's you know that's fine so I went back and was sitting in Vince's office watching you know watch the match then it all went down all hell breaks loose you know and I I ended up working my way to to Brett's locker room and you know just like I cannot believe that this happened and finally I went I left there and I went to get Vince so I'd like Vince has got to address this to to Brett and so I left there and was going to Vince's office Vince was already on his way you know he was already on his way to come talk to to Brett about it of course you know all the boys are you know in an uproar and what I kind of did was like all right this is bad enough as it is a lot of you guys that it doesn't affect it doesn't matter needs to stay the hell out of here right so there's a lot of people I didn't let in the dressing room so I think Brett had you know Owen and Davey Boy some seems like there was somebody else was gymnast gymnast a better gym mat again I might have been gym and then then Brett and then then Sean was there and then then Vince came in with Shane and Jerry Brisco Pat Patterson and Bruce Prichard so everybody sets down Vince on one side Bret's on the other side and I took Shawn to the far end of the dressing room and I sat next to Shawn I knew at some point he was going to chime in and that wasn't gonna help anything so we sent down there and you know they're kind of going back and forth Vince is trying to explain his position and Bret's you know giving his thoughts on what he thought about Vince and what he did and basically said I'm gonna go in here I'm gonna shower I'm gonna get dressed if you're still here I'm gonna knock you out kind of a deal and that's basically they talked he showered you got dressed they got up and you know then said I'm gonna give you one and I have to this day I cannot figure out how that punch got through so many people it was like I really I don't I don't know cuz there were so many people in there and they weren't like face to face but in that punch got through he hit Vince Vince went down and that and that was it so Bret Bret says it was uppercut what did you see was it a right cross was it was it the jab it was a right hand for sure I don't know that it was I don't know if it was an uppercut or more of a right kind of a looping overhand right but I know it is right in the temple hitting reputable and - it was is that just sort of the kind of guy Vince McMahon is that if he feels that in this circumstance the only thing that's gonna happen is he's got to take the shot he's just been taken kind of get up and keep it moving because he knows that's kind of what the locker room needs I think so I think you know Vince didn't want to do that who wants to quality yeah to the face to do business that way right Vince his eyes he couldn't let breathe he couldn't let Brett leave with the belt and then end up on WCW TV the next day with the WWF belt that was you know so and and to the best of my understanding Bret was not gonna drop the belt - Shawn you think you could have helped if events had enlisted you to try to help with Bret you think there's any way you could help I definitely could have and that was so the next day so I was really pissed I got man I was pissed that it got to that point and like I didn't know I didn't show up the next day till really late because I didn't know if I was going to TV the next day Mick didn't go and it was late in the day before I decided no I gotta go I gotta go I gotta go find out what the hell you know what happened here and why I was done this way my point being was like you should have you should have said which you know you should have switched me you should have put you know you should have put me in the match somehow with Brett I'm sure Brett would have dropped it to me right you could have beat you could have could have dropped it to Shaun later on you know right after that right there was a way to do it there was a work there was a different way to do it but you know this had to make sure and he had to make you know he had to he had to cover his bases I guess in his mind and you know but that's kind of the point I think where the whole locker room leader was really starting to come about you know because I had to solidify it I was the boys knew how upset I was that one of us got screwed over but then the office kind of could see the point of okay he's trying to do what's best for business and it so it was that way for me it was like you know I'll defend you if you need to be defending but it all ends up it's all about business at the end of the day and that's where I fell in that you know it was one of the rare people that I guess that kind of fell into that groove where I was trusted you know yes I was one of the boys but I was trusted by the office just like you know I was sitting in sitting again on their meetings I wasn't but wrestling question where do you where did you get the inspiration to come up with so many signature moves that are not finishers you know whether it's Snake Eyes chokeslam olds last ride old school was there was there someone who inspired you to do that and also where did I miss where this happened where did the name hold school controlled the school it's funny I want to say it either came from Tommy Dreamer or of all people Victoria really I'm and I'm not sure which one of them was but what of them just you know yelled out one day old school and it stuck and I you know when I especially when I was American Badass you know I deal out old school you know and this that just stuck I like I can't take credit for that that if somebody just said it I think in passing and and was that's just a thing you'd always been able to do that you knew was a good trick of yours that you were so big but could walk the top road so I when I broke in when I broke in Texas when I broke in in Texas I got an opportunity work with the original spoiler and that was his move he was about six for 65 about 275 and I knew when he did it to me I said as soon as this guy retires you know he was late in his career I said that that's mine yeah and so you know I watched him do it and and figured it out you know there was a time that I actually walked the top rope and walked down the tightrope the top rope and then dropped an elbow but that's probably one of the reasons my hips got so bad I remember when I was in WCW Jodi Hamilton you know we do three or four you know squash matches in a TV taping and I remember coming back one day and Jodi Hamilton was sitting there at the monitor and he's kind of peeked up over his glasses and he goes you're taking years off your career there kid I was like no sir mr. Hamilton I'll be able to do this forever no by the time when I started with WWE I already had a limp you know it was from dropping that that flying elbow off the top rope how's the leg drop on the apron feel by the way that's another one you do that always looks brutal it is it's brutal for me yes it's not I mean depends who it is know it should be good for them but place it on the ring you want to fall that's the hardest part of the Ring and yeah it looks great but man it's rough and it gets rougher like when you're doing it all the time you kind of get conditioned to it yeah you do it like once or twice a year it's like yeah but is there anyone else that did did that I mean listen there's some pee everyone has their setup right you know you know Randy of course has that second row DDT you know people have one or two things but you really have like a lot of signature moves was that a was that a plan or these are just things that happened over years and years yeah I mean 30 years come on man yeah I mean you've got a pickup that's where a lot of guys go wrong now in the way they work is they have those two or three moves and they do them every single week right and then they're not they don't have anything else really that they come up with and they just keep relying on those those same moves like like like old-school for example you know after I mean after so many years of seeing it I would use it as a cutoff spot like I would start up I'd get on that second rope and I'd let whoever it was you know it still a couple of body shots in there and bring me out of it and then hopefully you know sometimes depending on the crowd God go back to it and pay it off later or maybe they didn't get it that night you know but I had to give you know I had to give options there were certain times that I would get to the top rope and I'd let him arm dragged me off the top rope but I would use those those signature moves to set up you know spots that they weren't expecting but I mean that's after what you have to consider how much TV time that I've had if you don't continue we add to the repertoire then you're gonna you know you're gonna come pretty stale pretty quick thanks for watching ESPN on YouTube for live-streaming sports and premium content subscribe to ESPN Plus

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Id: M7hxevsZuvI

Length: 12min 51sec (771 seconds)

Published: Sat May 30 2020

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[u/BigHoss94]

Taker saying that Bret probably would've been more willing to drop the belt to him and then he could lose it to Shawn later was something I never considered.

[u/Budseybear]

undertaker is 200x more believable to listen to that 99% of other wrestlers. he takes time to think about his answers. when he isnt sure, he doesnt seem like hes just looking for the first convenient answer and you can tell he genuinely thinks about what he is going to say before he says it. He also isnt coming across like he is only doing these interviews for personal gratification or to tarnish other people.

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I have much more reason to believe the opinion and tales of this man than I do people like kevin nash/hulk hogan or even bret hart

[u/madhatv3]

It's so cool hearing Undertaker's version of all of these events now.

[u/Hookerbait]

Bret would never have taken the belt to WCW.

If he'd done that, it would've been akin to dismissing all his achievements in WWF. One thing we know about Bret, is he takes his career very seriously (too much so, in some people's opinion). Why would he, in essence, maim the thing he cares most about?

He wouldn't, is why. This whole element of the story is just what Vince had to tell himself to justify doing business.

[u/OU_DHF]

I don’t understand why it keeps being said that Vince was afraid that Bret would show up on Nitro with the belt. That would never have happened. There had already been a lawsuit over the women’s belt being thrown in the trash (as well as lawsuits over the Flair belt angle in 1991), and it was well established that it wouldn’t happen again.

Plus, I believe Bret was still under contract with the WWF through the December IYH PPV, which was the show that Vince and Bret had agreed that he’d lose the belt.

Other than that, it’s cool to hear Taker open up and talk about the behind the scenes stuff.

[u/sky_byte]

This pretty much confirms what I suspected, that Vince gave Bret the opportunity to take a poke at him.

Odd that Taker says Vince was already on his way to talk to Bret. The story we always heard was that Vince holed up in his office and Taker came and got him out.

[u/kulaykahel]

Fuck Vince McMahon, seriously.

[u/SitociMax]

Thank god he's here to finally reveal what happened that day !

A savior