Bret was most responsible

There was only one screwjob.

Vince. He was the one who allowed the screwjob to happen.

Vince was definitely responsible, look what's going on now , nobody had a bigger ego or taught they could get away with anything more than Vince

​@stoddard1953 the screw job had to happen. He was champion and leaving the company. You can't let that happen. Look what Madusa did with the women's title when she left as champion

Also, Cornette said it to Vince out of exasperation towards the idiotic situation Vince himself created.

jesus christ you guys are really like a cult commenting on every video of everything mildly corny related ffs

The Cult of Cornette?

@@MiketheratguyMultimedia😂😂😂😂

it was triple h who gave the idea

He scripts almost everything he says and then he's also very good at remembering his lies He was also very specific about his beef with bischoff and when they were face-to-face he got hit with facts and immediately 180d He's very good at making a compelling argument when he's by himself with Brian Last or passive reporter giving him softballs

Also, HHH was a big culprit in this. He's the one who suggest "If Bret won't do business with the WWF, we'll do business for him."

​@@alfamikeit's true....I agree He also helped with that plan

@@NationalSportsEntertainmentNSEyou sound like a Democrat trying to disprove when Trump tells the truth

I wouldn't believe anything Bruce says

Exactly. Not once, anywhere, has he tried to take credit for it.

😂😂😂

That is an awesome observation! I'm a little annoyed though, because now that's all I'll notice 😂😂

Instinctual.

Why did I laugh so hard at this 🤣😅😂

Because of Stroke Dysphagia he used to have a low deep voice

Spot on, Bruce has always said he knew nothing about it.

‘They fooked him, they fooked Bret’ 🇬🇧 🐶

Yeah Bruce said Vince purposely left him in the dark to protect him. He said at the time he was pissed since he thought it was because they didn't trust him but it was so no one could blame him and he didn't have to lie about it.

"They fooked him!"--- Davey in Gorilla

@@QCS_AdamCole Indeed...😁 God rest his soul 🙏

People don't realize how big the "smaller" wrestlers actually are because they look small on TV in comparison to the bigger guys. I got my picture taken with X-Pac about 10 years ago. I'm 6'1" and weighed 205lbs at the time. I look kinda small standing next to him.

@@brandonh9557 Yes.🙌🏽

@@brandonh9557 Bret was a unit in the late 90's - early 00"s. I remember watching him on the Howard Stern show, and he was massive! Even Howard remarked how jacked he was. Cameras didn't do him justice.

@@darkhorse1280 He definitely was. When I met him, his shoulders, traps, and neck were like a bodybuilder/powerlifter.

go vegan

Both Bret vs Owen matches that I saw on PPV were awesome

Bret thinks AEW is horrible and wasted their potential.

I think he meant to say Goldberg

But Bret addresses that if you listen carefully. He states that there are so many who want to be part of it like it was something to be proud of, instead of a hit job.

Pricard is the biggest liar and a** kisser

@@kdr3619 Jim Cornette didn't want to screw Bret because he liked Bret. However, Jim was dared to come up with a double cross and did it out of frustration and a history lesson from Scott Teal

​​@@andraethegiant1987cornette wanted to do a double DQ and Bret drop the belt the following Raw. Russo and Jim went back and forth on the finish with McMahon in the middle of it which is how Jim began his hate for Russo

When is Cornette gonna debate Russo face to face? What is Jim afraid of?

@@Rschr101 I don't think Jim is afraid of Vince Russo, I think its the opposite. Vince Russo is terrified Jim might actually kill him.

@@Rschr101 Russo will run for his life! Cornette has already been quoted that even on his death bed, he will find Vince Russo's Grave and Piss on it.

@@Rschr101 Is Russo's restraining order against Jim still valid?

@@Rschr101 Russo is afraid. BTw: There is no point in debating. Jim has an unbeievable knowledge in wrestling while Russo is still confused and doesnt know the basics.

Right. He says funny things, but in such a dry, straight forward, Canadian way 😂

Were you spitting

@@ReanimatorsMutilationsHahahahah No I was like 5. The Lowell Pd actually cuffed Bret. I do remember thats

@@TheBristerAbsolutely. Apparently the Hart’s are known for doing excellent impressions of people.

Bret was in on it.

Yeah, the way Corny tells it he’s shocked that Vince seemingly took it seriously.

Vince went with most of what cornette suggested,but vince add to it. All on cornettes channel.

Jim chucked a random stone at a flock of birds and one squaked hard

Yeah Jim Cornette admitted on his podcas, he's been telling the half-truth all these years. He claimed FULL responsibility, for offering the suggestion of screwing Bret out of the belt , and said Vince asked him directly " Well, how would you do it?" . Jim said he took that as a personal challenge and planned out EVERYTHING! From start to finish, and made sure he planned to get the hell.out of dodge when it all went down..

Bret always needs someone to talk smack about doesn't matter who it is

Bruce was pissed that he didn't know about it due to the immediate aftermath.

and he denied that for YEARS until I think the one Meltzer episode on his show and then later Dark Side. I think Bret's spin here is that Cornette is claiming credit for influencing them going the route of the double cross, and that's not true. like you said, he just got the idea in Vince's head lol Vince was having trouble finding an out and Cornette just relayed what he read in a book from a match in the 1930s..?

​@@mecha2001Yeah, I think Bret just heard someone tell him "Cornette's taking credit for it now" and is just running with that.

And you would be correct.

Exactly, Jim said he walked up to Vince before the match and just said “Do you have a finish.” Vince said “Yes” and Corney said “That’s all I want to know.” He never claimed he was pulling Vince into a closet and hashing it out lol

Vince had already done a double cross with with Wendy and Moolah. Jim reminded him of that.

I don't think so. It's wild, though, how this is from 2019. and they're still milking this show. I think some of these clips are reuploads too.

​@@misterundead425 Exactly, they're just milking these short clips for cash grabs

That's irrelevant. Bret wasn't the owner or booker. Vince decided the belt was going to Shawn the asshole. Do your job,Bret. Bret was totally unprofessional.

None of that fucking matters. Bret Hart is an ACTOR. Nothing else. YOU had the same fucking record in the WWF than he did. 0-0. You both actually WON zero matches. Wahhhh! I don't like my co-worker! Well, fuck you. He is not the one telling you that your FICTIONAL CHARACTER THAT YOU PLAY IN YOUR ACTING JOB is going to lose. I am. I'm your boss.

​@user-pu3fz1qs3m And Shawn wasn't. He was just to blame just as much as Bret. If Shawn wasn't so arrogant and selfish.Bret would've honored his word and dropped the belt to him. Vince is also to blame to. Don't put all blame on Bret.

@@user-pu3fz1qs3m Bret was being petty, but Shawn was even more petty. Shawn was wanting to beat people in the hometowns infront of their families just to make his ego feel good. Vince also was very high on doing stuff like that too because he is notorious for making people lose in their hometowns or important cities to them. Also, Hogan literally did what Bret was asking to do dozens of times and Vince had no issues with that. Bret was still under contract till December and was planning on working a few more dates for the WWF after Survivor Series 97. There was literally nothing wrong with doing the planned finish of Shawn winning via DQ and then Shawn wins the belt the next night on Raw. Vince still had Bret and Bret wasn't planning on taking the title to WCW. But no, Vince trusted a Junkie instead of Bret. That same Junkie, who said he got injured and lost his smile, just so he wouldn't have to job to Bret at WrestleMania 13. Shawn confirmed that as well. Shawn was being so petty at that point that Bret had every right to be the way he was. Not justifying what he did, but he wasn't being an unreasonable asshole for no reason. I agree it wasn't Bret's decision to make, but, Vince had a ton of options besides the screwjob.

Brett cry babied at the end. period. all the scenarios that the office gave him he didn’t agree with. Detroit? too close to Canada. That says enough about how Bret thought

Right. Jim isn’t claiming credit, he just said it was something he explained, I don’t know why Bret has such a hard-on to discredit him.

Yeah, cornette just explained to Vince how that kind of ending has been done in the past

Yeah, Cornette just said himself that it was nothing personal against Bret…he was just tired of the drama leading into survivor series…he said he’d much rather screw Shawn because he liked Bret more as a person

Cornette is full of shit. Always overstating his importance in everything. This is no exception

@@ronanmartin1990 oh, were you part of the creative team for WWF at the time? Please share...

Yeah Cornette says a lot of things and a lot of it is bullshit. Half his stories are other peoples stories. If anybody thinks someone told Vince what to do there your crazy. Funny Cornette brings this story out 20 years later. They made fun of hm in WWE he wasn't much, that's why he wanted out. He would have got booted when his contract was up. He got lucky with OVW. And that he talks like he did a lot. Danny Davis ran the show, he and Rip Rogers ran the classes. Jim was the office boy. He didn't train anyone, didn't develop the instructions for training anybody. He didn't decide who did what. He formatted TV and he got sponsors. That's about it. His shows were only a success with WWE talent on it. Besides that they ran 200 seat capacity areas. Not much success at all.

@@TheEWFX29 it's always funny to see an AEW mark pop in with their take on Cornette. LOL!

@@chuckshingledecker2216Haven't watched a second of AEW television in my life if your talking about me.

​@@TheEWFX29i actually like Cornette but god people act like everything out of his mouth is gospel...

@@rodneykendall2022 He was fun in the old days. The Q&A's, all the stories and interviews were fun. Then he got Last and found these sleazy commercial and attitude changes which has made them money. But Cornette has become wrestling Trump. He really believes his own shit. I remember once he had Flair on the podcast and Flair started telling stories and saying who really had did some off the things Cornette says he did. Cornette wasn't saying much because he wasn't the ruler he has turned into now. But he has started to believe his gimmick now. And these people just want to be led by the nose. Its sad to see how little people think of themselves that they would just follow blindly behind someone else. These are the one who are really sad. I haven't heard a full show in years and have no intentions too. After he got the angry AEW fan train rolling its been horrible to listen too. Wall to wall reviews. Constant modern shit because they are making money off the hate. I have to point out some glaring shit sometimes on here but these people are too far gone. They want a collection of commercials and swoon over Lasts laugh. We are talking some really sad creatures here. The people Cornette says he hates he does the show for. That is how fucked up it has all become.

I mean Bret is making zero sense here, saying anyone other than Vince M had nothing to do with what happened, he's essentially saying "Vince did that without discussing it with any of them, and it certainly didn't originate with any of them, I know because I exited out of my body into an ethereal form and hovered over Vince at all times when he was away from my physical presence..."

I am looking forward to Cornettes response to this, it's gonna be good! Corny don't sugar coat anything, he tells it as it is!

It doesn't seem like Bret fully understands what Cornette said about his role. From what I remember, he never stated he was one of the masterminds, only that he brought it up in a creative meeting as a way that old time promoters used to do it and Vince took note of it then the other guys put it together. He said he didn't even know the ending of the match when he walked in and talked to Vince, that day, and only asked him if he had one, because he didn't want his fingerprints on it. Russo has more directly taken credit for planning it and others have said that Hunter yelled out at some point, "If he doesn't want to do business, we need to make him do business".

Cornette said book him with shamrock ☘️

This isn't new lol. It's an old interview broken into clips

Kevin Dunn knew and of course Shawn and HHH

True. You are correct. My take is that Bret was good but he was never *that* good

That's what he literally said. He had nothing to do with it but wished he did.

Hate towards WWE is cz of Montreal screw job and death of his brother. Owen hart incident was big tbh

⁠@@perfectblindguy No, Bret was that good and was as good as he gets credit for being. He has also been through a world of shit in the wrestling business and generally speaking probably the most justifiably bitter person to come from the business as a result. Nevertheless, this is a rare moment where he is just wrong about who to blame for the incident.

How does Bret know what got said in a creative meeting Seems like hes just blowing off smoke to me without any substance

2019 i think

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You spelt Austin wrong son

Dream on. Bret Fart is that in his own mind, barely on a Top 10 list.

1. Hogan 2. Rock 3. Austin 4. Cena 5. Sammartino Nope!

You can't just put "it's your belt just double cross him"in the middle and act like that's not exactly what we mean by him claiming it It's 100% what they did and he suggested it. You do the math

Bret and Austin didn't "map out" the match. That wasn't a thing that happened in 1996. Scripting matches wouldn't become a thing until the 2000s. (Outside of DDP, and Randy Savage who only did it in the big matches.) Austin and Bret talked over a few of the big spots, the blood, and the finish. Everything else was called in the ring.

@@chuckshingledecker2216 You and I are saying the same thing two different ways. In another interview (actually I think it's with the same group but different day) Bret outright says "this is going to be like a playground street fight." He told Austin he should bleed, the sharpshooter finish and even 'almost' getting out. The double turn from Austin to baby face and Bret to Heel. That's 80% of the material right there. You're right, each move was likely on the fly but Bret indeed mapped it out. Watch the Broken Skull sessions with Steve and Bret, Austin even states he let Bret lead.

They are going to milk these interviews dry. Like this show, it was from 2019. and they are still posting clips of it in 2024. I think they are even reuploading past clips, but they are under different titles. More clickbaity, though.

And Earl knew as well, if I remember correctly.....

Earl Hebner was told at the last minute by Gerry Briscoe.

How do you know lol I think either russo or cornette had influence on vinces decision but only vince will know the truth

True. There was no video of Bret hitting Vince. I think Bret is BSing on that one.

Then I guess Ken Shamrock is also BSing when he corroborated the story.

@@oftenimitatedneverduplicated I agree. The thing that sealed it for me is wrestling with shadows, bret is in the back after he got screwed and he called Shawn, "shawn" instead of his real name Michael/Mike.

@@tellumyort There was video of everything else except the punch...and Bret over the years gave differing accounts of where he hit Vince. One time he hit vince in the jaw, or eye or was it the temple?

@@perfectblindguy a lot of wrestlers call other wrestlers by the wrestling name instead of there real names espieclly back then.

Yep. And you don't hear Strangler Lewis still crying about it like Bret.

Technically, depending on who you believe, it's the 3rd.

​@@TheDrewThorntonthat's because he's dead😂

@@Ryu_Shotokanthat should do it 🤛🏻

@@Ryu_Shotokan touche

Which is the most important part. I don't think Bret cared about the details of HOW he got screwed (in his ridiculous mind). Just that it was done.

The original interview this clip is from is even older than Cornette's explanation.

as far as i know that is still his stance.

cornette and vince saying the same thing

Because he didn’t know it would end there since the original plan was he would reverse the move on hbk and dx and the hart foundation would cause a double dq. You can watch the finish. He grabbed hbk by the leg and went to reverse it and the bell rang

No shit. But just like he didn’t know that he had no idea who was in on it, and apparently still doesn’t.

Agreed 100%

Bret lost to Austin by DQ in a #1 contender match at the In Your House right after WM 13.

@darrelsapp1232 Not a major PPV though, which is why I used the word. Also not a definitive win.

@darrelsapp1232 Bret passing the torch in the Mania main event would've been worth a hundred times that. And he'd have done it like a boss. No-one in the company could've made Austin better.

I'm going to respectfully disagree here. Now, I do take into account that Bret was poorly used in WCW and then got his career shortened by the mistimed Goldberg kick. But let's be honest, that kick could have happened at anytime, against anyone. So about Austin, no, Austin would have been huge regardless. Yeah, Bret was a big star, but Austin was in there mixing it up with Mike Tyson. As famous as Bret had been... He ain't nearly the name Tyson was and still is. Then you get to the fact that the Screwjob was basically the start of the Mr. McMahon character, which is still the highest drawing heel in the history WWE. Lastly, how much money have been drawn just by talking about the Screwjob? Entire podcast hosts were elevated to instant millionaire status by talking about it. To this day, almost 30 years later, it is one of the most asked interview questions. If you could have an interview with just about any wrestling star of that area, one of the first questions are going to be "what did you know about the Screwjob?" The Screwjob has probably made more money than any single event in wrestling history, die to its sheer longevity, it gave birth to the greatest heel of all time and that spawned arguably the greatest babyface of all time. So no, I don't think any other timeline works out as well as this one.

He calls it a cult for a reason. Of millions of wrestling fans many fans him entertaining About 10% are in the cult

Yeah that was weird, Prichard openly says he didn't know and had nothing to do with it

He took credit for it on an episode of Dark Side of the Ring. He was going into detail about where he got the idea from and how he told Vince McMahon in meeting.

@@jeremyzak654 he'd talked about it years before on the podcast and admitted it was his idea, it wasn't taking credit, it was being honest. There is a difference.

But he was supportive of it and complicit. Still the same