Bret Hart is one of the most revered and influential professional wrestlers in history, but if you ask him, one of the greatest things he ever did was punch Vince McMahon.
As was documented in the award-winning documentary Wrestling With Shadows, Bret struck Vince behind closed doors following the 1997 Survivor Series in Montreal, aka The Montreal Screwjob. The incident was revisited in episode three of Netflix's "Mr. McMahon" docuseries.
"When I walked back to the dressing room, I'm ready to kill him, like beat him to death," Hart says in the documentary.
"It was Vince and me came at each other and we actually tied up like a wrestling match. Everybody's ready to pounce on me as soon as we grab each other. And I remember going, the only way I can get a shot in, one shot maybe, is an uppercut. I came right up between Vince's arm and it was like when you hit the bell and the thing goes up."
"To this day, I have no idea how that punch got through," The Undertaker added.
"He was out cold like a starfish," Hart continued. "Probably the best thing I ever did, and he deserved every bit of that."
Journalist Pat Laprade disputes some of Netflix's re-telling of the Montreal Screwjob in Mr. McMahon, noting that Bret's contract didn't expire until the following month and he could not show up on WCW programming with the WWE (then WWF) title.
"Bret was NOT gonna leave the WWF with the title. He was under contract until December and had agreed to lose the title against someone else than Shawn, and not in Canada. Springfield, MA was talked about," Laprade posted to X.
"The right narrative should be that Vince was afraid that Bischoff would announce Bret's signing on Nitro 11/10. But Bret had specifically asked Eric not to do that and Eric had agreed. Vince wanted Shawn as champion and made it happen. But he was wrong here."
"You can't blame Bret. He had a creative control clause on his last month with the company, therefore could indeed decide who he would lose the title to, or in this case, who he didn't want to lose the title to. And it's Vince who gave him that power with that clause."
All six episodes of Mr. McMahon premiered today on Netflix.
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